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breathed into matter the breath of the καλὁς κ'ἀγαθὁς (meaning all these words are fit to mean and not merely what the Athenian gentleman saw in them) with Reasonableness, the spirit of the λόγος. It is not because the True, the Beautiful, and the Good seem admirable to us that we are to think them the quasi-purpose of the Universe, but because this purpose everywhere pervading Creation, naturally crops out, too, in the shaping of human reason. The publicultural instincts, then, are to be regarded as ministers of the Rational instincts. Thus we recognize the groups of instincts, the Suicultural, the Publicultural, and the rational, or Noble, in each of which we may distinguish several different instincts. Let us endeavor to draw up lists of them.

Human Instincts.


Suicultural Publicultural Rational
The Health-Instinct The Morals-Instinct The Dress-Instinct
The Food-Instinct The Magic-Instinct The Dress-Instinct
The Grab-Instinct The War-Instinct The Preach-Instinct
The House-Instinct The Pet-Instinct The Peek-Instinct

The designations will have to be defined; for most of them

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