What Peter Kropotkin thinks about measuring intelligence

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Russian anarchist political philosopher and geographer (1842 to 1921), a proponent of anarchist communism; lived in exile in England from 1886 to 1917; author of Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902).

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   Our readingLife in society is what enables parrots to reach their very high, almost human intelligence and feelings

   Their wordsThere can be no doubt that it is the practice of life in society which enables the parrots to attain that very high level of almost human intelligence and almost human feelings which we know in them.

   ↗Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902)gutenberg.org All 17 from this book