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Classification of the Sci.
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breathed into matter the breath of the καλὁς κ'ἀγαθὁς with Reasonableness, the spirit of the λόγος. It is not because the True, the Beautiful, and the Good are pleasing to man that they are the quasi-purpose of the Universe, but because this purpose everywhere pervades Creation, it naturally crops out, too, in the shaping of human reason. The publicultural instincts, then, are to be regarded as ministers of the Rational instincts. Thus we get three groups of instincts, the Suicultural, the Publicultural, and the rational, or Noble. In each of these groups we may reckon four distinct instincts as here tabulated.


Suicultural Publicultural Noble
The Health-instinct The Morals-instinct The -instinct
The Food-instinct The Magic-instinct The clothes-instinct
The Grab-instinct The War-instinct The preach-instinct
The House-instinct The Progeny-instinct The -instinct

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