Sleep Story 233 – The Instinct of Workmanship
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Instinct Is No Longer a Technical Term in the Biological Sciences
Human activity can never exceed the scope of these instinctive dispositions, by initiative of which man takes action. These native proclivities alone make anything worthwhile and out of their working emerge not only the purpose and efficiency of life, but its substantial pleasures and pains as well. For this purpose instinct is a concept of too lax and shifty, a definition to meet the demands of exact biological science. A genetic inquiry into institutions will address itself to the growth of habits and conventions,. conditioned by the material environments and by the innate and persistent propensities of human nature. No better designation than time worn instinct is available.
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