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tions, in order to bring him to terms about the price of a privilege by the sight of the money, knowing that he cannot bear to see it going out of his office. If this is not true, it is well-devised to illustrate the uncontrollable character of instinct in part which in other respects is governed by reason. So then the three essential characters of instinctive conduct are that it is conscious, is determined to a quasi-purpose, and that in definite respects it escapes all control.

There is no mode of consciousness that is not affected by instinct, which is capable of coloring the imagination, of vitalizing effort, and of concentrating thought. The mental processes producing instinctive judgments obey the very same logical norms that human reasoning obeys, on the average even more precisely. Certainly, instinctive judgments are much the less liable to error. The inferiority of the instinctive process lies only in the

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