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and the Grouping Instinct are respectively the general instincts tending to personal well-being, the ordering of society, and the awakening and blossoming of ideas. The Gust-Instinct, the Ghost-Instinct, and the Garb-Instinct are Instincts of feeling tending respectively to those same ends, naïvely conceived, and tending to realize them through the instrumentality of feelings, or personal consciousness. The Getting-Instinct, the Gore-Instinct, and the Graphic Instinct are working instincts, or instincts of human reaction, tending respectively toward the same three ends, but conceived in a vulgar style, and tending to realize them through the guidance of blind impulses of human reaction. The Gentleman Instinct, the Gamic Instinct, and the Gnostic Instinct are instincts of growth, tending to the same three ends, but conceived as those ends lead each to something higher, and tending to realize them through development of mind. In so far as this cross-classification is satisfactory, in its idea and in its fulfillment and really comes as an afterthought