MS 1343 (1902) - Of the Classification of the Sciences

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who is acquainted with the fundamentals of dynamics that if physical forces obey the law of the conservation of energy then a volition cannot be a force. For a volition tends to bring about a result and if circumstances are varied the action will be varied, so far as may seem necessary to bring about that result; while a force acting according to the law of energy; simply a conservative force does not act in this way. It produces or rather is an instantaneous acceleration (which its law, if anything, determines as synchronous with a configuration) and this acceleration integrates itself by the intervention of time, into motion and on

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have outlived their rationability and which ought to be cast out upon the garbage heap of exploded superstitions, performances utterly irrational yet of real service to society.

The Gore Instinct, or war-instinct is the most energetic of the civicultural instincts. It has two branches, which remind one of the two varieties of the Getting Instinct. Namely, as that has the hot-headed gambling variety and the mean saving variety, so the Gore instinct has the adventurous, aggressive sort and the self-controlled murderous, guillotining sort.

The Gamic Instinct

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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 of ideas. The Gust-Instinct, the Ghost-Instinct, and the Garb-instinct are sensuous instincts, or instincts of feeling, not recognizing their own quasi-purposes which are respectively personal well-being, the ordering of society, and the awakening of ideas under the guidance of feeling, or personal consciousness. The Getting-Instinct, the Gore-Instinct, and the Graphic Instinct are working instincts, or instincts of human business, which regard themselves as half-selfish, but whose true quasi-purposes are again respectively personal well-being, the ordering of society, and the awakening of ideas under the guidance of direct impulses of human reaction. The Gentleman Instinct, the Gamic Instinct, and the Gnostic Instinct are the highest instincts in their respective groups. The Gentleman Instinct has for its quasi-purpose personal well-being, so far as this tends to the ordering of society; the

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Gamic instinct has for its quasi-purpose the ordering of society so far as this tends to the awakening of ideas, and the Gnostic instinct has for its quasi-purpose the awakening of ideas, so far as these