"'Tis from the resemblance of the external actions of animals to those we ourselves perform, that we judge their internal likewise to resemble ours; and the same principle of reasoning, carry'd one step farther, will make us conclude that since our internal actions resemble each other, the causes, from which they are deriv'd, must also be resembling."
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David Hume, Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), Book 1: Of the understanding, Part 3, Section 16.
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