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to the theoretical special sciences of matter, its forces, and its forms. The reader's attention may, perchance, have been drawn to the circumstance that just as no wish whatever has for its principal object the gratification of that wish, so the majority of the Arts of Gratification are pursued, not for the artizan's own gratification but for those of their neighbors. This is neighborly but not in the least altruistic: each man's motive is his Getting Instinct, barring the comparatively unusual cases in which the Gore Instinct or the Graphic Instinct is the cause, as the last, I doubt not, is in selfsacrificing missionaries and those who give themselves up to such causes as Temperance and Christian Endeavor. A man who makes it his business to gratify his neighbor for the sake of gain, naturally selects that method by which he can do so with the greatest economy of effort. Hence arise handicrafts and other arts whose bond of unity is the kind of skill