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narrowness of its scope. This narrowness chiefly accounts for the greater sureness of instinct. But the mistaken logic of men and then ridiculous self-complacency they indulge in toward their own logic is also fruitful of error. The only general difference between reasoning and those mental processes which result in instinctive judgments is that the latter, unlike the former, is not subject to critical control. When this control proceeds on false principles, as half the time it does, it is worse than no control at all. That is the reason that the judgment of a sensible woman is so much surer than that of an average man. It is a common thing, however, to find subconscious appreciations more delicate than those that are controlled.

It remains to complete our definition by stating in what the unity of quasi-purpose of an instinct consists. This is very different according as it unifies conduct on any single occasion, and according as it

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