Instinct : its office in the animal kingdom, and its relation to the higher powers in man / Paul A. Chadbourne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chadbourne, Paul A. (Paul Ansel), 1823-1883, author.

Series:

Lowell Institute lectures.

Lowell lectures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Instinct.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 323 pages).

Other Title:

Instinct

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1883.

Summary:

In this book the author considers man in his animal nature as possessing appetites and instincts which act without a guiding power in them or among them. He discusses the We relation of this animal nature to a higher nature, which is fitted to control it, and has, as its own possession, the means--by automatic powers and free-personality--of controlling itself. He argues that there is a whole group of emotions, aspirations and impulses that would seem to be meaningless if man's conscious activity is limited to the duration of his physical life, and there is no Intelligent Being above him who has personal relations to him. He then enumerates the active principles of what he calls the religious nature of man. Topical areas in this book include operations in inorganic nature and plant life that simulate instinct; operations in physiology simulating instinct; higher forms for instinct for the welfare of the individual species; manifestation of higher instinct, instinct for communities of animals; instinct connected with parental relation; higher character of animals; instinct in man as growing out of his appetites; the relation of instinctive principles of action to the rational and moral nature of man, moral instincts, and religious instincts.

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