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If the objection does not extend to the distinctions based on modes of life and capacities for following these modes, but on ly to distinctions based on modes of feeling and consciousness in general, it fails to touch the classification here proposed, which is exclusively of the former character.

Coming to particulars, such defence as can fairly be made of the classification of the instincts depends in large part upon the manner in which it was made. The author first drew up a list of instinct[s], guided by general observation of life, without the smallest thought of any intermediate grouping. This list, which was nearly identical with the above, was as follows:

The Food-Instinct = the new Gust-instinct, but restricted to food and drink.

The Health Instinct = the new Gambol-instinct, but restricted to health and cleanliness.

The Clothes-Instinct = the new Garb-instinct, but limited to clothing and personal adornment.