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when it comes to deciding whether upon different occasions it [is] the same instinct or two different instincts that act, we cannot,—at least ,the author cannot, at this stage of his education,—be so entirely confident of meaning much of anything. Here it is no longer the same subject upon which the instinct acts, but only subjects more or less connected. Nor is it any longer a single character that is superinduced upon those subjects, but only a sort of harmony of characters. This harmony has to be judged by the way it strikes our minds. We cannot absolutely assure ourselves that there is any real bond of unity between the various phenomena that we attribute to one instinct, nor that that bond is greatly different between phenomena that we attribute to different instincts. The difficulty is increased by the fact that different instincts sometimes undoubtedly mingle their influence upon the same actions. What resort have we except to trust to natural good sense? That is a common phrase; but it is an incorrect one. Let

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