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The clothes-instinct is very largely nothing but a special form of the play-instinct, modified by the conversation instinct. Dress is a decorative art. As such it is expressive and it is esthetic. It is peculiar among decorative arts, chiefly in the degree to which vanity and personal consciousness enter into it. If we distill off the esthetic element from the clothes-instinct the caput mortuum is found to be composed in the main of moral feeling, especially pudor. This, perhaps, is the reason that dress is so much a matter of fashion; for the imitation-instinct is an essential ingredient of every form of the morals-instinct. The great part that vestments have always played in the rites of magic and of religion is no doubt in great measure owing to magic's seeking the support of the morals-instinct. High governmental dignitaries have also been as gorgeously costumed as possible. There thus remains little if anything that is sui generis in the clothes-instinct.

In contrast to the clothes-instinct, the house-instinct seems to