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Classification of the Sci
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as affording types of instinct have any instinct according to the trio's definition. It will be far better to class as instinctive all action that is at once conscious, animated by a quasi-purpose, and passing in part definitely beyond all possibility of control; since with reference to natural classification no characters can be more significant than these three. If the reader is at a loss to understand how knowledge can under this definition be instinctive, it can only be that he forgets that thought is essentially of the nature of action. It is a capital mistake to suppose that one can be immediately conscious of thought. Immediate consciousness is nothing but feeling. But this feeling is incessantly shifting kaleidescope-fashion; and when it shifts I experience either an effort to bring about the metamorphosis against a resisting inertia or else that the transformation comes, will I, will I. Hence the prominence

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