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generally, to bring one thought to bear upon another, to add to a doctrine, purpose, habit, or action, that which fits into it and is necessary to complete it, as when one adds to the simulation of an emotion or other state of mind the genuine state of mind itself.

By the Clothes-instinct is meant the lowest, most sensual, and most personal spirit of expression, as it is exhibited in dress, personal adornment, and other pettinesses of vanity and pretension, such as coats of arms, pedantry, insolence, subtle impertinence, excessive urbanity, stickling for fashion and ceremony.

By the Play-instinct is meant the most energetic part of the cultivation of ideas. The name, which translates Schiller's Spieltrieb, has been chose because the fine arts exemplify the highest action of this instinct. But the passion for teaching, disputatiousness are other varieties of this impulse to expression.

By the Conversation instinct is meant that more elevated form of menticulture which aims, not at

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