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the proper conduct of games involving contest ought to be included in this group or in the group of sciences ministrant to the Gambol Instinct. In favor of putting them in this group, it may be said that the Gore instinct is none the less their leading motive that it happens in these cases to be in a facetious mood. The contest is none the less sincere that the penalty for defeat is light. If players who entered into the true spirit of the game enjoyed losing almost as much as they do winning, then, and only then, it could truly be said that the Gambol Instinct was the predominant one. But in point of fact such players would be regarded as half-hearted, unsatisfactory players. On the other hand, it may be said that, no matter how intensely the Gore Instinct may be excited in a game, the purpose of this excitation, after all, is simply to give stimulus to the exercise. The exercise of the powers,—the Gamboling,—is the only sincere motive. Let this question remain un-

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