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gination, it is broadly general and simple. But in the process of working itself out, it necessarily becomes successively more and more definite and complex, and each of these determinations may usually take one or other of several forms. Thus, when primitive man first found that he needed clothing in winter, his original and principal purpose may have been to keep warm. But when he came to cut his garment, it may have occurred to him that its appearance would make some impression on those who saw him; and then he might adopt as a secondary purpose that of attracting his friends or that of scaring his enemies. Moreover, the attainment of a purpose usually involves the solution of a problem. There are conditions that have to be fulfilled; and the fulfillment of these becomes a subordinate purpose. When we come to study the matter more closely, we shall find that there are several different categories of secondary and subordinate purpose.