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be a genuine elementary instinct, and not a mere special effect of more general impulses; and this opinion is confirmed by the fact that the lower animals so generally have nests of some kind. It is remarkable, however, that the greatest works of architecture, down to the most recent years, have always been erected in the service of religion. In Latin aedes, in Greek μἀγαρα, literally meaning edifices, are used in the plural form to designate any single temple. A man's sentiment about the temple of his god seems to be, quite similar to his sentiment about his own dwelling house. The reason, of course, is that religion impresses us as sublime; so that it is the Play-instinct (to which we refer all esthetic emotions) that forms the link between the house-instinct and the magic-instinct.
The collecting-instinct, developed as a money-making faculty, aids in the satisfaction of every other instinct. At the same time, its influence is toward repressing all
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