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Accurately descriptive designations would have been far too cumbrous. What was most desirable, therefore, was that the names should not be understood as descriptive. They are merely key-words referring to the following definitions.

The Gambol Instinct is the general instinct (for some instincts are more general and rational than others) for exercizing body and mind. It prompts to athletic exercizes, dancing, games,* and active amusements, and also to the preservation of health, to cleanliness, and to general personal well-being.

The Gust Instinct is the instinct which causes us to take pleasure in sensations, such as agreeable eating and drinking, smoking, and other sensual gratification.

The Getting Instinct is the instinct which causes men to amass treasures, whether of money, books not to be read, cancelled postage stamps, and other equally worthless objects, to engage in business, to speculate and gamble, and generally to pursue self-interest with earnestness and energy. It seems to have two well-mined varieties, the hoarding and the gaining kinds.

*Major Powell regards games of chance and calculation as having their origin in the Ghost-instinct; but his own data are against this conclusion.