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the Jesuit father, Bonjeant turned against Descartes with the words
> All the Cartesians in the world will never persuade me that a dog is a mere machine. Imagine a man who should love his clock as a man loves his dog, and who should pet it because he believed it loved him and was of opinion that it struck the hours consciously and out of friendship for him. Yet, if Descartes be right, that is exactly the absurdity committed by all those who believe that their dog is faithful to them and loves them. I see how my dog runs to me when I call him, caresses me when I coax him, trembles and runs away when I threaten him, obeys when I order him, and how he exhibits all the outward signs of the distinct emotions of joy, grief, pain, fear, desire, love, and hate. And if all the philosophers in the world should come and try to convince me, I should never be able to persuade myself that an animal is a machine ; this feeling will always set men against the philosophy of Descartes.
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