Sleep Story 233 – The Instinct of Workmanship
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Logic of Ways and Means
Men take thought, but the human spirit decides what they shall take thought of. The instinctive proclivities are essentially simple and look directly to the attainment of some concrete, objective end. In detail the ends so sought are many and diverse; ways and means by which they may be sought are similarly diverse and various. Under the discipline of habituation, this logic and apparatus of ways and means falls into conventional lines,. acquires the consistency of custom and prescription, and so takes on an institutional character and force. It follows that in much of human conduct, these proximate ends alone present in consciousness, as the object of interest and the goal of endeavour.
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