LL
men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we
take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are
loved for themselves; and above all others the sense of sight. For not
only with a view to action, but even when we are not going to do
anything, we prefer seeing (one might say) to everything else. The
reason is that this, most of all the senses, makes us know and brings
to light many differences between things.
By nature animals are born with the faculty of sensation, and from
sensation memory is produced in some of them, though not in others.
And therefore the former are more intelligent and apt at learning than
those which cannot remember; those which are incapable of hearing
sounds are intelligent though they cannot be taught, e.g. the bee, and
any other race of animals that may be like it; and those which besides
memory have this sense of hearing can be taught.