Tuesday, June 5

As if too much bewildered by his new responsibilities

"In a railroad accident to a travelling menagerie in the United States some time in 1884, a tiger, whose cage had broken open, is said to have emerged, but presently crept back again, as if too much bewildered by his new responsibilities, so that he was without difficulty secured."

–William James, on "Habit," from The Principles of Psychology (1890)

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