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tiful altruistic instinct. But if it really exists, people who buy lotter-tickets are entirely deluded in supposing that their action really springs from thirst for money, however gained. They picture themselves as so many hogs jostling one another in their eagerness to get at the trough, when in reality they are animated by a holy altruism implanted in the nature of their race. Whatever be the real character of this action, the hypothesis serves to illustrate how a purpose may be quite deluded.

When, leaving the consideration of the action of an instinct on any one occasion, we pass to that of its action on different occasions and in different men, we find that instead of its tending to impart one definite predicate to one individual subject, it tends only to impart more or less harmonious, by exceedingly various predicates to subjects connected perhaps but certainly not identical. Thus, the same money-making instinct which on one