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Classification of the Sci
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The Gentleman Instinct is the instinct of reasonable suiculture. One wishes to enjoy one's grandeur. One feels that a gentleman so great and good, so generous, so gracious, so genteel, with so genuine a genealogy would not be properly honored without fine surroundings, a stately house, garnished from garret to ground, an ancient garden, a cemetery full of glorious grandsires, a park of immemorial oaks, with a breed of deer elsewhere extinct, lawn and gravelled avenues, a porter's lodge behind a gateway gorgeous with heraldic scutcheon, and all that.

The Govern Instinct is the general instinct for ordering one's neighbors, and of holding up to them a good example. One wishes to see everybody behave with propriety, to organize, to regularize, to govern, to bring honor to one's city or country, to reward the virtuous, to arm the law against the criminal, to arm society against the bohemian and the boor, to do justice between man and man.

The Ghost Instinct is that ingredient of human nature that brings the emotions to the service of society. It has impressive rites, and clings to scraps of primeval philosophy which

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