If we designate as intelligence, quantitatively, the total of mental functioning, it is evident that the suppression of verbal thought involves a defect, relatively very important among cultivated individuals leading a complex social life: the uneducated person from this point of view is a defective.

— Henri Piéron Le cerveau et la pensée [Thought and the Brain (1923)

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