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Classification of the Sci.
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and instincts of an ethical, political, governmental, organizing social character. The love of power belongs here.

It would be very easy to pass severe and merited judgment upon this list. A classification of sciences based upon it cannot be expected to be better than a rough approximation to the natural classification. The only excuse for the list is that the author is not acquainted with any other that seems better adapted to our purpose. It is plain that the twelve instincts of the list are not independent elements of human conduct; and if they are treated as such much that man does must appear to spring from a mixture of several of them. It may be well to notice some of their more obvious connections with one another.

The health instinct is closely related, in part, to the food-instinct. When men are ill, they naturally believe that they will do well to swallow something peculiar and nasty. Probably man, like other animals, has some

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