Word: brutes
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...prime importance. Instead of giving all of the worthwhile news of the world, you seem to gloat over the fact that the said Johnson knocked out the teeth of a taxicab operator who happened to incur his displeasure-thereby showing your true colors-catering to the lowest animal instinct-brute force...
...prospector's daughter. Successively, in unreasoning passion, he kills the first two and takes the last for his mate. The power of the book, the excuse for it, is that the author, once a sheepherder, treats the protagonist as he treats the beasts in the story, as a dumb brute suffering without understanding. It is not a comedy, and unlike the Scandinavian treatment of such a theme it is not stark tragedy. It is simply a wild-animal tale, effectively told...
...brute insults your sister...
...Creighton's that. "After we have got rid of the ape and the tiger we shall have to dispose of the donkey, a much more intractable animal." It is reassuring to find the Liberal Club trying to put spirit and glorified common sense into the head of this domestic brute. The burden of the complaint is the submissiveness of the creature. I once heard a wise man say that what struck you, as you compared the American student with the European student, was the "docility of the American student. Seeming to attack the system, whether of undergraduate credits or doctor...
...fact upon which Professor Kohler dwelt was the new view of psychology which his research has given him. "In the field of animal psychology," he declared, "altogether too much emphasis is laid on the subjective side of the work. The experimenter too often tries to prove the inferiority of brute intelligence. What science wants is an objective estimate of the standards of animal intelligence...