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unifies conduct on various occasions. The former unity is fairly objective and real; the latter involves subjective elements, and is liable to perturbation from prejudice and fancy. Let us make haste to admit and to avow that in the absence of any buttresses against such influence this pretty nearly destroys the scientific character of the author's classification of the instincts and even of his enumeration of them. Fortunately, however important the classification of the instincts may be, its significance for the classification of the sciences is extremely limited.

But to return to the two unities, on any one occasion the unity of quasi-purpose of an instinct lies in this, that all its action tends upon one identical subject to superinduce one and the same character, and this is such a way that should this action be hindered in its accomplishment, a new and independent line of conduct will be started tending to the same result. In order to

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