| an early manuscript in the history of american comparative psychology: lewis henry morgan's "animal psychology" (1857). | lewis henry morgan (1818-1881) is best known as the 1st ethnographer of native american culture, but he also wrote on animal psychology, beginning in 1843, some 50 years before the founding of comparative psychology as a scientific discipline. although not an evolutionist, morgan argued that animals possess many human mental abilities, such as reason and moral judgment, and he rejected the scientific utility of the concept of instinct, a view that did not gain much currency in psychology until t ... | 2002 | 12465615 |