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Curiosity do not deal with persons so much as with ideas, nor do we find among Artists and Scientific Men that power of handling men that we find among those in whom civic instincts, say those for Politics, Education, and War, are strong. In order to set ourselves right let us seize upon the clue of purpose. The lowest instincts are no doubt centred in self. We may call them the suicultural instincts.* But what is the use of that individual man to whom the suicultural instincts minister? Those oft-quoted Redarwinian lines of Tennyson tells us that Nature seems to value the individual only for the sake of the stock. If so, the suicultural instinct is but the servant of the civicultural. The civicultural instincts, then, will form the second group. And what is the use of the state or the race? Is the mere swarming and multiplication of human

*Pursuing the idea of making our designations fanciful, we may regard 'suiculture' as of Lewiscarrollesque ambiguous derivation, either from sui, of oneself, or from suis, of a swine.

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