Quote of the Day (William James, on the World-View of a 'Broody Hen')

“To the broody hen the notion would seem monstrous that there should be a creature in the world to whom a nestful of eggs was not the utterly fascinating and precious and never-to-be-too-much-sat-upon object which it is to her.” – American philosopher and psychologist William James (1842-1910), The Principles of Psychology