MS 1343 (1902) - Of the Classification of the Sciences

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breathed into matter the breath of the καλὁς κ'ἀγαθὁς and reasonableness, the spirit of the

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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

These designations require to be defined, for most of them

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generally, to bring one thought to bear upon another thought, and to add to a though, purpose, habit, or action what is needed to complete it, as when one adds to the simulation of an emotion or other state of mind the state of mind itself.

By the Clothes-instinct is meant the lowest, most sensual, and most personal form of expression of mind, as in dress, personal adornment and other exhibitions of vanity and pretension, such as coats of arms, insolence, subtle impertinence, excessive urbanity, stickling for fashions, and all that.

By the Play-instinct is meant, pretty nearly, Schiller's Spiel-trieb, which his great art of concentrated expression enabled him to define pretty clearly in a dozen or so of lengthy epistles, yet after all somewhat narrowly. It prompts men to all their energizing and strenuous labor for the love of ideas, the unremunerative industry of the bookworm, of the theoretical chemist in his laboratory, of the artist who suffers every pang of hunger rather than spare the time for a pot-boiler, of chess-player, and in short of every man whose

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absorbing passion lies in the pursuit of ideas.

By the Conversation-instinct is meant the most elevated form

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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