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uses them for a different quasi-purpose.* In some of their perversions the public utility of adventure and murder are not apparent; but this is no more than what we observe in regard to all instincts. Perhaps the adaptation has not been sufficiently developed in all its ramifications. Perhaps the phenomenon is due to the fact that the instincts are not independent entities but are natural classes, and as such, liable to become indistinguishable in some special manifestations as well as to become inextricably mingled.

By the Pet-instinct is meant the most elevated form of publicultural instinct, which impells men to rear and train children and other pets. It is the cherishing protecting spirit.

By the Fitting-instinct is meant the spring of all that action whose direct quasi-purpose is the general association, fitting together, development, and expression of thought, inducing men to act as they have done or as they have seen done, to imitate themselves and others to form more general habits and more general purposes, to generalize

*It is humiliating to see how timid good people are about God, and how afraid lest he should get into trouble. They dare not look straight into the fact of the truth there is in Mandeville's Fable of the Bees. If they could only feel sure that God will manage to take care of himself, they might learn something from that book, and do justice to its author, who is not the man they take him to be.