Instinct Sentence Examples

The moment had made him acutely aware of the instinct to replicate.

It's just an instinct I have about him.

He wasn't sure which instinct was stronger.

The instinct that warned him flared again.

You have a natural instinct for the simple but elegant.

She'd ignored the instinct at her apartment, and that ended in disaster.

He answered by instinct, yet, in spite of not thinking of his answer, had he been given more time to consider, it would have remained the same.

It was less an instinct and more of an absence of something.

His instinct told him there was something else going on aside from the insurgents and Lana leaving.

You promise to tell me if your maternal instinct kicks in?

Natasha too, with her quick instinct, had instantly noticed her brother's condition.

Is it some ill-fed village hound yielding to the instinct of the chase? or the lost pig which is said to be in these woods, whose tracks I saw after the rain?

Instinct told her his threat wasn't simply the liquor talking.

There was a reason he banned thoughts of Darian and Claire from his mind, an instinct he'd never been able to face in all the years since Darian's death.

Oh, to have had this instinct years ago, when she met Wynn!

He followed the instinct that led him to Deidre and trotted up the stairs leading to the top of the fortress.

On instinct, Brady opened the channel to Lana's net.

Tree climbing, or climbing in general, is a basic instinct for a cat.

Maybe she was spooked tonight, but long ago she had learned to listen to that instinct... gut feeling, some might call it.

She paused before him, resisting the instinct to stick out her hand for a handshake.

Late September aroused the instinct to prepare the den for winter — so to speak.

Nor can it be said that the instinct of the saint was altogether at fault.

The prey is sometimes stung in the neighbourhood of the nerve ganglia, so that it is paralysed but not killed, the grub of the fossorial wasp devouring its victim alive; but this instinct varies in perfection, and in many cases the larva flourishes equally whether its prey be killed or not.

In this instinct we have a correspondence with the habits of social wasps and bees.

Yet it may be thought that the usual instinct of the " diggingwasps " to capture and store up food in an underground burrow for the benefit of offspring which they will never see is even more surprising.

These qualities, joined to a natural military instinct developed by much study and backed by a powerful ambition, marked him out early and brought him very quickly to the front.

The cause of poetry is man's instinct of representation and his love of representations caused by the pleasure of learning.

Instinct suggested that she wanted to be protected.

In fact, much of the skills required of a good investigator involves a great deal of insight and instinct that is difficult to teach, and often comes naturally for many people.

She dismissed the uneasy instinct.

Long-buried rage was bubbling upward, along with the tiny instinct he'd squashed thousands of years ago.

Gabriel hugged her more tightly out of instinct.

He resisted the instinct that told him he needed to peek into her thoughts.

Rhyn reacted out of instinct.

Jackson's instinct encouraged him to hold her and calm himself enough to calm her.

Lana sank onto the couch, not liking the instinct that told her she was right about him.

A different instinct went off in Darian's mind, one that recognized the look on the Black God's face as being another sign Jenn was in more trouble than expected.

The Original Watcher appeared, confirming her instinct.

But the growth and development of the northern communal movement, though strong and instinct with life, was slower and less tempestuous than the Flemish.

Tone himself admitted that with him hatred of England had always been "rather an instinct than a principle," though until his views should become more generally accepted in Ireland he was prepared to work for reform as distinguished from revolution.

Though possessing a complete copulatory apparatus and producing large quantities of spermatozoa, they have lost their sexual instinct and play no part in the economy of the species.

With the instinct of a true statesman, he felt the pulse of the people, divined their need for prestige, and their preference for a government heavy-handed rather than lax.

The theist believes that he can further trace many incomplete workings of the monothesitic instinct in the history of religion.

To Aristotle the whole of nature is instinct with a vital impulse towards some higher manifestation.

In his doctrine of human development he does indeed recognize an early stage of existence in which our species was dominated by sensuous enjoyment and instinct.

After the death of Margaret Plays, her widower found, with the peculiar instinct of his race, a second well-endowed wife.

In the European species of Sitaris and Meloe these little larvae have the instinct of clinging to any hairy object.

The old tendency illustrated by the outcome of the revolutionary movements of 1848 was once more in evidence - the tendency of merely artificial theories of democratic liberty to succumb to the immemorial instinct of race and race ascendancy.

As a result it has been far easier for the American than for the European railway builder to take advantage of the speculative instinct in obtaining money.

The protective instinct was responsible for much of this interference with the natural impulse of men of various creeds towards mutual esteem and forbearance.

He had no scholarly interest in the past, and he never hesitated to transform the texts when he could give contemporary "point" to a poem; but his instinct was good, and he did much to stimulate an ignorant public to fresh enjoyment.

Commercial supremacy required not so much highly trained intelligence amongst manufacturers and merchants as keen business instinct and a certain rude energy.

Since the 9th of Thermidor, the republican instinct has grown weaker every day.

True to his Corsican instinct of attachment to the family, and contempt for legal and dynastic claims, he now began to plant his brothers and other relatives in what had been republics established by the French Jacobins.

They crushed a civilization already hard hit; and it took two or three centuries for the artistic spirit, instinct in the Aegean area, and probably preserved in suspended animation by the survival of Aegean racial elements, to blossom anew.

And thus perfection of structure and instinct in the imago has been accompanied by degradation in the larva, and by an increase in the extent of transformation and in the degree of reconstruction before and during the pupal stage.

Possibly from this habit was developed the instinct to build a door with a movable hinge.

And when we turn to the other line along which the web-building instinct has been developed we find that the primary guiding influence has been that second great vital necessity, namely the necessity of getting food.

Snares of another type consisting of a tangled mass of threads amongst which the spiders pick their way with ease, but which are impassable to insects, are spun by members of the Theridiidae and Pholcidae; but by common consent the so-called orbicular web, so characteristic of the Argyopidae but by no means confined to them, is regarded as manifesting the greatest perfection of instinct in snare-spinning.

The success of procryptic coloration depends, however, very largely upon stillness, and the instinct to keep stationary without moving a limb is a marked characteristic of all spiders unless engaged in hunting or fleeing from imminent danger.

They are merely practising the inherited instinct to lie motionless, movement being the only indication of the presence of living prey known to many insectivorous animals.

The female attaches her eggs to the inner wall of her own home, and the young when large enough to shift for themselves have the bell-making instinct fully developed.

That the Pilgrims' Progress should thus have turned into a Holy War is a fact readily explicable, when we turn to consider the attempts made by the Church, during the 11th century, to purify, or at any rate to direct, the feudal instinct for private war (Fehde).

It is the Church which creates the First Crusade, because the clergy believes in penitentiary pilgrimages, and the war against the Seljuks can be turned into a pilgrimage to the Sepulchre; because, again, it wishes to direct the fighting instinct of the laity, and the consecrating name of Jerusalem provides an unimpeachable channel; above all, because the papacy desires a perfect and universal Church, and a perfect and universal Church must rule in the Holy Land.

The basis of this growth is partly the story-telling instinct innate in all men, which loves to heighten an effect, sharpen a point or increase a contrast - the instinct which breathes in Icelandic sagas like that of Burnt Njal; partly the instinct of idolization, if it may be so called, which leads to the perversion into impossible greatness of an approved character, and has created, in this instance, the legendary figures of Peter the Hermit and Godfrey of Bouillon (qq.v.); partly the religious impulse, which counted nothing wonderful in a holy war, and imported miraculous elements even into the sober pages of the Gesta.

Ignatius, with his military instinct and views of obedience, intervenes with a director who gives the exercises to the person who in turn receives them.

If he said so, he was speaking of the Ptolemaic cosmogony as known to him through the Arabs, and his vaunt was a humorous proof of his scientific instinct.

These intellectual principles are, of course, not without their own ground in physical sensation; but it is evident that Debussy appeals beyond them to a more primitive instinct; and on it he bases an almost perfectly coherent system of which the laws are, like those of i 2th-century music, precisely the opposite of those of classical harmony.

It has developed a definite instinct to save human beings from drowning, this probably being an evolution of the retrieving instinct of the original spaniels.

Bede has the artist's instinct of proportion, the artist's sense for the picturesque and the pathetic. His style too, modelled largely, in the present writer's opinion, on that of Gregory in the Dialogues, is limpid and unaffected.

The plan was good; and with the rare instinct for character which distinguished him, he made choice of the right man for his purpose in the young Marsilio.

But in any scientific discussion the term instinct must be used within narrower limits, and hence it is necessary that the term should be defined.

From the biological point of view the reference of certain modes of behaviour, termed instinctive, to faculties of mind for which "instinct" is the generic term is scarcely satisfactory; from the psychological point of view the phrase "without necessary knowledge of the relation between the means employed and the end attained" is ambiguous.

Romanes thought that the manner of stinging and paralysing their prey might be justly deemed the most remarkable instinct in the world.

The study of instinct is in the genetic treatment of evolutionary science a study in heredity.

The tendency of the evolution of intelligence is towards the disintegration of the stereotyped modes of response and the dissolution of instinct.

But the French army was already completely out of hand, and the degree to which the panic of a crowd can master even the strongest instinct of the individual is shown by the conduct of the fugitives who crowded over the bridges, treading hundreds under foot, whilst all the time the river was easily fordable and mounted men rode backwards and forwards across it.

When this is done, it will, however, be found that there is a broad unity of subject, and of natural development in its treatment, such as to some extent justifies the instinct or the judgment of those who were instrumental in effecting the combination of the separate parts.

When suddenly confronted in a situation where immediate escape is impossible, the fox, like the wolf, will not hesitate to resort to the death-feigning instinct.

The view that instinct is the hereditarily fixed result of habit derived from experience long dominated all inquiry into the subject, but we may now expect to see a renewed and careful study of animal instincts carried out with the view of testing the applicability to each instance of the pure Darwinian theory without the aid of Lamarckism.

Stanhope, whose politic instinct obliged him to worship the rising rather than the setting sun, remained faithful to the prince, though he was too cautious to break entirely with the king's party.

It is simple and severe, classic yet instinct with life and noble in form; and in it he touched the high-water mark of his career.

Since the advent of the British power, the immigration of Hindus with a lower standard of comfort and of Chinamen with a keener business instinct has threatened the economic independence of the Burmese in their own country.

The Burmese women have a keener business instinct than the men, and serve in some degree to redress the balance.

Under such conditions the deeply-rooted nature of the blood-sucking instinct is most remarkable; for insects whose ancestors for many generations may not have tasted blood will seek for it with the utmost keenness and pertinacity so soon as an opportunity presents itself.

This wise suggestion, still unfulfilled, was at first welcomed, according to Comte's own account, by Guizot's philosophic instinct, and then repulsed by his " metaphysical rancour."

It colours all his writings, and is intimately connected with some of the most characteristic attributes of his mind, a quick sympathetic imagination, a fine feeling for local differences, and a scientific instinct for seizing the sequences of cause and effect.

With this may be compared a passage in the Ursprung der Sprache, where there is a curious adumbration of Spencer's idea that intelligence, as distinguished from instinct, arises from a growing complexity of action, or, to use Herder's words, from the substitution of a more for a less contracted sphere.

It is to him that Japan owes the possession of some of the most stately and most original works in her art, sublime in conception, line and color, and deeply instinct with the religious spirit.

The prose style of Rome, as a vehicle for the continuous narration of events coloured by a rich and picturesque imagination and instinct with dignified emotion, attained its perfection in Livy.

Feudalism is practically extinct among them and with the decline of the Druses, and the great stake they have acquired in agriculture, they have laid aside much of their warlike habit together with their arms. Even their instinct of nationality is being sensibly impaired by their gradual assimilation to the Papal Church, whose agents exercise from Beirut an increasing influence on their ecclesiastical elections and church government.

C. Dargan, "show the native oratorical instinct highly trained by study and practice, a careful and sensible (not greatly allegorical) interpretation of Scripture, a deep concern for the spiritual welfare of his charge, and a thorough consecration to his work.

In the other families both sexes are winged, and the instinct and industry of the females are among the most wonderful in the Hymenoptera.

The book's method and form are pervadingly allegorical; its instinct and aim are profoundly mystical.

There was little or no sense of the danger of the legal principle, as related to human egoism and the instinct to seek salvation as a reward for merit.

He possessed, to an extraordinary degree, a power of getting into intimate association with the Arabs of the desert, such as has belonged to but one or two of his predecessors in Arabian travel, and he combined with this gift the soldier's instinct and a capacity for leadership which raised him at once to the first rank of commanders in desert warfare.

We may not always agree with his portraiture, but the men and women whom he saw exist for us instinct with the life with which he endows them and animated by the motives which he attributes to them.

The mere instinct of self-preservation had, at last, drawn the Poles and Lithuanians together against these ruthless and masterful intruders, and the coronation of Jagiello at Cracow on the 15th of February 1386, was both a warning and a challenge to the Knights.

By instinct and temperament he was more impelled to the adventurous toils of exploration than to the duller task of building colonies.

It was really this instinct that told in the end more than any process of quasi-scientific criticism.

And it was well that it should be so, because the methods of criticism are apt to be, and certainly would have been when the Canon was formed, both faulty and inadequate, whereas instinct brings into play the religious sense as a whole; with spirit speaking to spirit rests the last word.

Thus Huxley, with true prophetic instinct, found that the sum of primitive characters of all the higher placental mammals points to a stem form of a generalized insectivore type, a prophecy which has been fully confirmed by the latest research.

Its founder, with a wise instinct, had forbidden the accumulation of wealth; its own constitutions, as revised in the 84th decree of the sixth general congregation, had forbidden all pursuits of a commercial nature, as also had various popes; but nevertheless the trade went on unceasingly, necessarily with the full knowledge of the general, unless it be pleaded that the system of obligatory espionage had completely broken down.

His readiness and skill, his happy instinct for grace of arrangement, atoned for want of originality and real power.

With a sound instinct that looked to future greatness, France still aimed, more and more, at the control of the interior of the continent.

To the disappointment of his father, in whom the military instinct was ever predominant, he showed no love of soldiering, and gave evidence of a kindliness of disposition and a tender-heartedness which were considered out of place in one destined to become a military autocrat.

Moreover, the mothers appear to have little maternal instinct and neglect their offspring.

But the social instinct is strong.

This prophecy is instinct with the growing sense of the personal responsibility of individual men brought into communion with God.

By a true instinct the early Christian writers called widows and orphans the altar of God on which the sacrifices of almsgiving are offered up. 4 Such works of charity, however, represent only one of the channels by which self-sacrifice is ministered, to which all prayers and thanksgiving and instruction of psalms, prophecy and preaching contribute.

He holds that we pass without break from the phenomena of bodily life to the phenomena of mental life, that consciousness arises in the course of the living being's adaptation to its environment, and that there is a continuous evolution from reflex action through instinct and memory up to reason.

In considering the force of instinct in animals he was obliged to divest will of reason.

These sudden appearances of vast bodies of lemmings, and their singular habit of persistently pursuing the same onward course of migration, have given rise to various speculations, from the ancient belief of the Norwegian peasants, shared by Olaus Magnus, that they fall down from the clouds, to the hypothesis that they are acting in obedience to an instinct inherited from ancient times, and still seeking the congenial home in the submerged Atlantis, to which their ancestors of the Miocene period were wont to resort when driven from their ordinary dwelling-places by crowding or scarcity of food.

When any combination of circumstances has occasioned an increase of the numbers of the lemmings in their ordinary dwelling-places, impelled by the restless or migratory instinct possessed in a less developed degree by so many of their congeners, a movement takes place at the edge of the elevated plateau, and a migration towards the lower-lying land begins.

The strength of classical reminiscence and the instinct of liberty were reinforced by the support given to communal aspirations by the popular agitator and dangerous tribune, Arnold of Arnold of Brescia, whose theories arrived at an opportune Brescia.

He is said to have rejoiced privately over Swedish victories, and certainly it was unerring instinct which told him that the great European conflict was no longer religious but dynastic. Anti-Spanish to the core, he became the greatest papal militarist since Julius II.; but Tuscany, Modena and Venice checkmated him in his ambitious attempt to conquer the duchy of Parma.

The gueridon is still occasionally seen in something approaching its original form; but it had no sooner been introduced than the artistic instinct of the French designer and artificer converted it into a far worthier object.

Among his principal contributions to this work were articles on "Instinct," "Theology" and "Metaphysics."

The play, which is written in blank verse, is too obviously a continuation of Lessing's theological controversy to rank high as poetry, but the representatives of the three religions - the Mahommedan Saladin, the Jew Nathan and the Christian Knight Templar - are finely conceived, and show that Lessing's dramatic instinct had, in spite of other interests, not deserted him.

The literary tact which is so remarkable in the extant speeches is that of a singularly flexible intelligence, always obedient to an instinct of gracefulness.

The sinfulness of slavery being admitted, the duty of immediate emancipation to his clear ethical instinct was perfectly manifest.

The excitement was fed by the publication of two or three striking sonnets, instinct with the spirit of liberty, which Garrison inscribed on the walls of his cell.

Although the whole conception of the work implies that confusion of the provinces of poetry and history which was perpetuated by later writers, and especially by Lucan and Silius Italicus, yet it was a true instinct of genius to discern in the idea of the national destiny the only possible motive of a Roman epic. The execution of the poem (to judge from the fragments, amounting to about six hundred lines), although rough, unequal and often prosaic, seems to have combined the realistic fidelity and freshness of feeling of a contemporary chronicle with the vivifying and idealizing power of genius.

As a dramatist, pure and simple, his bird-like instinct of song carried him too often into a sphere too exalted for the stage; but he has written nothing that is not stamped with the exquisite quality of distinction.

His historical instinct led him ever to revert to the original unity of the church, and to regard subsequent errors as excrescences rather than proofs of an essentially anti-Christian system.

The strength of this remarkable tragedy lay, not in its inflated tone or exaggerated characterization - the restricted horizon of Schiller's school-life had given him little opportunity of knowing men and women - but in the sure dramatic instinct with which it is constructed and the directness with which it gives voice to the most pregnant ideas of the time.

His Hebrew instinct leads him to begin with a table of genealogy, artificially constructed in groups of fourteen generations - from Abraham to David, from David to the Captivity, and from the Captivity to the Christ.

Meanwhile the literary instinct had begun to show itself; we hear of a novel in letters - a kind of linguistic exercise, in which the characters carried on the correspondence in different languages - of a prose epic on the subject of Joseph, and various religious poems of which one, Die Hollenfahrt Christi, found its way in a revised form into the poet's complete works.

If the unfinished cell in the old nest had been only just begun, while that in the substituted nest were nearly completed, the bee would add so much material as to make the cell much larger than the normal size, her instinct evidently being to do a certain amount of building work before filling the cell with food.

Lastly, the philosophers of the second physical succession - Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Leucippus - not directly attacking the great mystery of the One and the Many, but in virtue of a scientific instinct approaching it through the investigation of phenomena, were brought by their study of sensation to perceive and to proclaim the inadequacy of the organs of sense.

For the British of Madras, under the instinct of self-preservation, were compelled to maintain the cause of another candidate to the throne of Arcot in opposition to the nominee of Dupleix.

The natural instinct of animated life, to which man also is originally subject, is self-preservation and self-interest.

It is due to them that the Romans of the day are living figures to us, and that Cicero, in spite of, or rather in virtue of his frailties, is intensely human and sympathetic. The letters to Atticus abound in the frankest selfrevelation, though even in the presence of his confessor his instinct as a pleader makes him try to justify himself.

Denying any form of moral sense or conscience, he regards all the social virtues as evolved from the instinct for self-preservation, the give-and-take arrangements between the partners in a defensive and offensive alliance, and the feelings of pride and vanity artificially fed by politicians, as an antidote to dissension and chaos.

The core of their creed is a fervid belief in the infallibility of Catholic instinct,.

What was wanting was not vitality and licence, not audacity of speculation, not lawless instinct or rebellious impulse.

Depicting feudalism in the vivid colours of an age at war with feudal institutions, breathing into antique histories the breath of actual life, embracing the romance of Italy and Spain, the mysteries of German legend, the fictions of poetic fancy and the facts of daily life, humours of the moment and abstractions of philosophical speculation, in one homogeneous amalgam instinct with intense vitality, this extraordinary birth of time, with Shakespeare for the master of all ages, left a monument of the Re- naissance unrivalled for pure creative power by any other product of that epoch.

The ascetic instinct is probably as old as humanity, yet we must not forget that early religious practices are apt to be deficient in lofty spiritual meaning, many things being esteemed holy that are from a modern point of view trifling and even obscene.

It is not that savages are devoid of the ascetic instinct.

Crawley interprets it by the vital instinct, and connects its first manifestations with the processes of the organic life.

The conditions that we describe by the comprehensive term " civilization " occasion a specification and corresponding differentiation of the life of societies; whence there result competing types of culture, each instinct with the spirit of propagandism and, one might almost say, of empire.

In this adjustment the lowest stage is taken by 'reflex action and instinct, where Spencer the change of the organs is purely automatic. As the external complexity increases, this automatic regularity fails; there is only an incipient excitation of the nerves.

But even his most hostile teachers were amazed by the brilliance of his natural gifts, and, while still a boy, he possessed that charm of manner which was to make him so fascinating and so dangerous in later life, coupled with the strong dramatic instinct which won for him his honourable place in Swedish literature.

The Claridades de Sul of Gomes Leal, a militant anti-Christian, at times recall Baudelaire, and flashes of genius run through AntiChristo, which is alive with the instinct of revolt.

Petrarch remained true to the instinct of his own vocation, and had no intention of sacrificing his studies and his glory to ecclesiastical ambition.

From the sublimity of Thucydides, and Xenophon's straightforward story, history passed with Theopompus and Ephorus into the field of rhetoric. A revival of the scientific instinct of investigation is discernable in Timaeus the Sicilian, at the end of the 4th century, but his attack upon his predecessors was the text of a more crushing attack upon himself by Polybius, who declares him lacking in critical insight and biased by passion.

With this comes the whole vast and ever-widening range of inventive and adaptive art, where the uniform hereditary instinct of the cell-forming bee and the nest-building bird is supplanted by multiform processes and constructions, often at first rude and clumsy in comparison to those of the lower instinct, but carried on by the faculty of improvement and new invention into ever higher stages.

He will not admit that there is any evidence of true virtue in the approbation of virtue and hatred of vice, in the workings of conscience or in the exercises of the natural affections; he thinks that these may all spring from self-love and the association of ideas, from " instinct " or from a " moral sense of a secondary kind " entirely different from " a sense or relish of the essential beauty of true virtue."

The young Raphael, whose incomparable instinct for rhythmical design had been trained hitherto on subjects of holy quietude and rapt contemplation according to the traditions of Umbrian art, learnt from Leonardo's example to apply the same instinct to themes of violent action and strife.

The science of religion gives a purely historical and comparative account of the various manifestations of the religious instinct without pronouncing on their relative truth or value and without, therefore, professing to apply the idea of evolution in the philosophical sense.

In the face of great natural catastrophes, such as river inundations, famines, tidal waves and cyclones of the lower provinces of Bengal, the religious instinct works with a vitality unknown in European countries.

But all these writings are instinct with a living personal faith, and serve for the defence of the cause; for it was not about words that he was contending.

Livingstone was no hurried traveller; he did his journeying leisurely, carefully observing and recording all that was worthy of note, with rare geographical instinct and the eye of a trained scientific observer, studying the ways of the people, eating their food, living in their huts, and sympathizing with their joys and sorrows.

Instinct told him that his old ally the khan of the Crimea was unreliable, and that the tsar of Muscovy was his natural protector, yet he could not make up his mind to abandon the one or turn to the other.

By natural instinct he hated the French, but there was no room in his nearly imbecile mind for more than childish superstition, insane pride of birth, and an interest in court etiquette.

All high imagination, all devotion to the public weal, seemed laid asleep. But the political instinct was not dead, and it would one day express itself for better ends than an.

He had always divined by the instinct of hatred that the French moderates must gradually be swept away by the Jacobins, and now it was all coming true.

The impelling influences on the French settlement of the region were the love of exploration and adventure, the commercial instinct and religious zeal.

The history of Israel from Moses to Ezra furnishes a large number of instances in which the fasting instinct was obeyed both publicly and privately, locally and nationally, under the influence of sorrow, or fear, or passionate desire.

Springing from the natural suggestions of self-defence against the march of a dangerous rivalry, it had the sanction of all British statesmanship for generations, backed by the consenting instinct of the people.

The same instinct of self-preservation which had led the members of the Convention to claim so large a part in the new legislature and the whole of Progress On these terms peace was made with the Vendeans year!!!.

Neither Royalists nor Feuillants nor Girondins had the instinct of government.

Catching a single deer and belling it, he drives it through the wood; the other deer, whose instinct leads them to gather into herds for mutual protection against the mosquitoes, are attracted by the sound.

David Strauss in his Life of Jesus had accounted for the Gospel narratives as half-conscious products of the mythic instinct in the early Christian communities.

Thus, both reason and sense of instinct co-operate in the impulse to virtuous conduct, though the rational element is primary and paramount.

Regarding the social tendency as originally itself an instinct developed out of parental or filial affection, he seems to suggest that natural selection, which was the chief cause of its development in the earlier stages, may very probably influence the transition from purely tribal and social morality into morality in its later and more complex forms. But he admits that natural selection is not necessarily the only cause, and he refrains from identifying the fully developed morality of civilized nations with the " social instinct."

Yet it has been a true instinct which has led popular opinion as testified to by current literature to find in Nietzsche the most orthodox exponent of Darwinian ideas in their application to ethics.

He exploited also the townspeoples need for security and the instinct of independence which made them claim a definite place in the feudal hierarchy.

His first preceptors were nothing but courtiers; and the most intelligent, his valet Laporte, developed in the royal childs mind his natural instinct of command, a very lively sense of his rank, and that nobly majestic air of master of the world which he preserved even in the commonest actions of his life.

With the sure instinct of genius, he seized the characteristic features of the phenomena presented to his attention, and his inferences, except when distorted by polemical exigencies, have been strikingly confirmed by modern investigations.

Launched upon an unknown world, and guided by unerring instinct to the very flowers it seeks, the bee fertilizes fruit and flowers while winging its happy flight among the blossoms, gathering pollen for the nurslings of its own home and honey for the use of man.

If he is born without the religious instinct, he can only receive it by going through a process of "conversion."

An immigrant, Hamilton had no particularistic ties; he was by instinct a " continentalist " or federalist.

It wasn't so much that he knew the politically correct things to say, but an instinct for reading people and finding their good qualities.

Yet was it actually instinct or was she merely being influenced by Alex's dislike of his father?

Her first instinct was to scramble to the back of the car and climb out.

Maybe there was nothing going on, but gut instinct said there was a story here – something big.

It was a truth acknowledged by the primal instinct drawn to the scent of his blood and invigorated by his touch.

Katie.s dormant maternal instinct roared to life, and she dived at Toby, snatching his legs to keep the jaguar from dragging him fully into the forest.

Years might have elapsed since his last formal training, but Alex certainly had an instinct for veterinary medicine.

He found himself on the Caribbean Sanctuary, in the small chamber with the Oracle book.  Sea breeze swept through the small windows of the room, and he took a step towards the lectern on which the open book rested.  The pages displayed had a few words written on them rather than the constantly shifting writing that normally scrawled itself across the pages.  He felt himself compelled towards the book even as his fight-or-flight instinct reared up.

Late September aroused the instinct to prepare the den for winter — so to speak.

He still retains a very strong hunting instinct, something which has sadly been bred out of other terrier breeds.

Then, in the subtlest suggestion of wartime devastation, this instinct civilization falls back through the cracks.

Consumers tend to buy attitudes, based on belief and instinct, and are increasingly discerning in their choices.

He went on without stopping, feeling no fatigue, obeying a potent instinct which allowed no room for thought.

We are naturally social beings, as distinct from animals possessing a herd instinct.

Some women experience a nesting instinct - an urge to get their home ready for the arrival of their baby.

However, the maternal instinct clearly shone through with women proving more generous with their prize money.

For he shouldn't forget the predatory instinct can work both ways.

You've got to go with your gut instinct.

He set his face down this toward Madison Square, for the homing instinct survives even when the home is a park bench.

I'm not sure I have the reporter's killer instinct!

Could this survival instinct be the origin of flight?

Two put in more than half the money (yes, a key investor will trigger the herd instinct ).

The Ozone Instinct is the new inflatable kite from the Ozone stable of kites.

Janardhana was, by instinct and natural proclivity, a person who wanted to talk to families on a personal basis.

You thrust away The instinct of a friend Or else you fear that You may meet rebuff.

The Freudian concept of human beings as fundamentally selfish and instinct driven has been fostered by business because it produces ideal consumers.

The heroine, Elma Clifford has almost supernatural powers of intuition which enable her to identify the murderer by instinct alone.

By what instinct has the urchin acquired this skill?

So I end up cooking mostly vegetarian stuff... Most of my cooking is done by " instinct " .

This is an instinct from its days living in underground warrens.

When referred to the senate, the matter underwent secret manipulation, largely through the influence of Cambaceres; but the republican instinct even in the senate was sufficiently strong to thwart the intrigues of the second consul; and that body on the 8th of May merely re-elected Bonaparte for a second term of ten years after the expiration of the first decennial term for which he was chosen.

In thus acting he proved himself a true follower of his great countryman Linnaeus; but, without disparagement of his efforts in this respect, it must be said that when internal and external characters appeared to be in conflict he gave, perhaps with unconscious bias, a preference to the latter, for he belonged to a school of zoologists whose natural instinct was to believe that such a.

The instinct reaches its highest development in the phenomenon miscalled "death feigning."

But it was an easier thing to consecrate the fighting instinct than to curb it; and the institution of chivalry represents such a clerical consecration, for ideal ends and noble purposes, of the martial impulses which the Church had hitherto endeavoured to check.

This may be taken to indicate that when first the Malays became acquainted with the fruits which are indigenous in Malayan lands they already possessed a language in which most primary words were represented, and also that their tongue had attained to a stage of development which provided for the formation of compound words by a system sanctioned by custom and the same linguistic instinct which causes a Malay to-day to form similar compounds from European and other foreign roots.

Thus in social relationships we speak of "instinctive" liking or distrust; we are told that the Greeks had "instinctive" appreciation of art; we hear of an instinct of reverence or "instinctive" beliefs.

Instinct involves inherited adaptation; intelligence, an inherited power, embodied in the higher nerve-centres, of accommodation to varying circumstances.

But this "will" is neither rational desire, unconscious irrational will, nor conscious intelligent will, but an instinct, a "will to live" (Zielstrebigkeit), often subconscious, pursuing ends, indeed, but without reasoning as to means.

Between the higher animals and the lower types of mankind the distinction is so hard to draw that many psychologists argue that the difference is one of degree rather than of kind (see also Instinct).

But he was also conscious that his exquisite devotion to mere lucidity and beauty might be a snare to him, and a happy instinct was always tlriving him to a study of mankind as well as of inanimate nature.

The feeling towards them at first would be simply an instinct of respect and deference; but we have seen above that the essential conditions of the higher estimate were present all along, and were only waiting to be recognized as soon as reflective thought was turned upon them.

Ile was endowed with great force of will, indomitable courage, extraordinary acumen, heroic constancy and a discriminating instinct for everything beautiful.

The pretentious language often applied to it by economists is objectionable, as being apt to make us forget that the whole subject with which it deals is as yet very imperfectly understood - the causes which modify the force of the sexual instinct, and those which lead to variations in fecundity, still awaiting a complete investigation.

Alytes obstetricans is of special interest as the first known example of paternal solicitude in Batrachians, and although many no less wonderful cases of nursing instinct have since been revealed to us, it remains the only one among European forms.

The animal vigour and carnal enjoyment of Rubens, the refined Italianizing beauty of Vandyck, the mystery of light and gloom on Rembrandt's panels, the love of nature in Ruysdael, Cuyp and Van Hooghe, with their luminously misty skies, silvery daylight and broad expanse of landscape, the interest in common life displayed by Ter Borch, Van Steen, Douw, Ostade and Teniers, the instinct for the beauty of animals in Potter, the vast sea spaces of Vanderveldt, the grasp on reality, the acute intuition into character in portraits, the scientific study of the world and man, the robust sympathy with natural appetites, which distinguish the whole art of the Low Countries, are a direct emanation from the Renaissance.

But this was mitigated by a strong sense of humour (not always sarcastic, though sometimes savagely so), and by tenderness, best seen in his epistolary friendships with women; and it was quite overborne by an instinct and passion for great practical affairs.

The only other principles which he discusses are veracity and fidelity to promises, gratitude being treated as a natural instinct prompting to a particular kind of just actions.

Joly de Fleury and DOrmesson, Neckers successors, pushed their narrow spirit of reaction and the temerity of their inexperience to the furthest limit; but the reaction which reinforced the privileged classes was not sufficient to fill the coffers of the treasury, and Marie Antoinette, who seemed gifted with a fatal perversity of instinct, confided the finances of the kingdom to Calonne, an upper-class official and a veritable Cagliostro of finance.

The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but is an instinct.

There is not a scintilla of evidence for a religious instinct.

It develops an immune reaction to its own survival instinct.

With his acute mental vision and unerring instinct he never allowed the trees to obscure his sight of the wood.

So I end up cooking mostly vegetarian stuff... Most of my cooking is done by " instinct ".

When searching for a good used car, always follow your instinct.

You've seen this nesting instinct several times when your dog walks in a circle several times, sighs, then lies down and falls asleep.

If collecting for fun and as a hobby, go for your gut instinct and choose those cards that appeal to you for whatever reason.

While bedbugs were once thought to be instinct, they are now back, leaving many people wondering where to buy insecticides for bedbugs!

It is an instinct in cats to bury their waste, so all you have to do is show your kitten the litterbox, and he'll catch on very quickly.

In keeping with this natural instinct, most cat beds are made with materials that provide an appealing texture that Kitty can't resist pawing and clawing.

His paws are probably still very sensitive, so it may really hurt for him to scratch at the litter to cover his urine and feces (a natural instinct for cats).

The act of purring involves the unique anatomy of cats and is driven by instinct and physiology.

Instinct and meeting basic needs are the reasons behind the purring.

Another important aspect of cat health care information is that cat behavior is driven by instinct.

You have only to observe a cat stalking a bird or mouse to see the hunter's instinct shine through.

As to how to apply concealer makeup to mask eye bags, you want to go against instinct and pat the makeup into the shadow underneath the bag.

While your instinct is to lean backwards, you have less control in this position.

A child's natural instinct is to react, either with anger, or by shutting down completely.

My first gut instinct is (without knowing more information) that this request is definitely not cool, it's inappropriate, and you shouldn't go.

Since many compulsive liars find that lying is an instinct, hypnosis is able to tap into the subconscious to make telling the truth instinctual.

It is often the first instinct to choose something that is close to home.

Hence, when shopping for your daughter's wardrobe, it is important to avoid materialistic instinct and focus more on your values and the music.

A dog's natural instinct is to resist being pulled by the neck, which is why many dogs fight leashes and traditional collars.

The goal is to produce a calm dog that thinks its way through a situation, rather than reacts to it out of instinct.

Domesticated dogs still have the instinct to den, and a crate can be a great substitution for that space.

It is an instinct that our dogs have to know when we do not feel well.

Newfies are extremely gentle dogs, and they have a strong instinct to act as guardians over the children in their family.

Today, the Lab's retrieving skills, intelligence, obedience, instinct and patience have made this breed excellent hunting dogs, working dogs and family companions who excel at retrieving game.

Herding dogs without an outlet for their herding instinct can display behavioral problems.

If you have a dog that has not been raised in such an environment, a trainer can evaluate your dog's herding instinct with a simple test.

Your first instinct may be to add more flowers to fill up the space, but this is not a good idea.

When you get dust or fingerprints on your lenses, your first instinct may be to use your shirt to clean them.

If you are looking for the ultimate playable character and you love the arcade version of Killer Instinct, then try this best video game cheat the next time you are able to stand yourself in front of the cabinet for this fighting game.

This "Ultra 64" branding can be found on the arcade versions of Cruisin' USA and Killer Instinct, titles said to be powered by Nintendo's 64-bit console.

More games utilizing this technique of 3D rendering would follow, including the combo-oriented fighting game Killer Instinct.

Other than the Donkey Kong series and Killer Instinct, Rare created Blast Corps, Diddy Kong Racing, Banjo-Kazooie, Jet Force Gemini, It's Mr. Pants, Perfect Dark, Star Fox Adventures and the highly-acclaimed Conker's Bad Fur Day.

This merely triggers the animal's "chase" instinct and it will come after you.

Defy your instinct to run and stand your ground.

Another highlight is the iPhone-competing Samsung Instinct and Palm Pre.

Available through Sprint Nextel is the Samsung Instinct.

More recently, we've been introduced to highly fashionable touchscreen phones like the HTC Touch Diamond and Samsung Instinct, as well as touchsreen QWERTY phones like the Palm Centro and LG Voyager.

Some people may prefer virtual keyboards, like those found on the Samsung Instinct and HTC Touch Diamond, but traditional users prefer physical keyboards.

While your first instinct may be to just call 911 for assistance in the case of an emergency, that's sometimes not always feasible.

It is best to begin breastfeeding immediately after birth as it is an infant's natural instinct to nurse then.

Research has shown that babies and caregivers demonstrate an instinct to attach.

The best dancers have learned the steps so thoroughly that they don't ever have to look down at the bamboo; they place their feet through a mixture of instinct and intuition.

As with many things in life, when someone does something that is heartfelt, and displays thought, our human instinct is to offer thanks for that gesture.

Follow your gut instinct when relying on websites for job leads or pursuing a position with a company.

If you don't want to rely on gut instinct and referrals alone, contact the Better Business Bureau.

Sources close to the couple say Jennifer's mothering instinct grows stronger by the day.

Follow your instinct; if something doesn't feel right, there may be something wrong.

The instinct is to go to discount shops, but you should be aware that this may end up being pricier in the long run.

These vampires strive to fit in along the edges of society and curb their instinct as predators to mingle with the general population.

Going where the bargains are is a natural instinct for any smart shopper, but sometimes knowing where to find the best deals can be a challenge.

At times, Capricorn's instinct to protect may tend toward the possessive; this can cause conflict in relationships.

When it comes to love, Taurean men once more display the herding instinct of this sign's symbol.

As a parent, watch your child and trust your instinct.

Contrary to popular belief, parenting is not a natural instinct for everyone, and many people need help to improve or develop their skills in order to reduce the negative effects of bad parenting on their children.

Honestly my first instinct would be for someone on Seinfeld.

Following your instinct and basic aftercare will help ensure a safe and healthy piercing.

As a parent, your natural instinct is to worry about your child's development.

After all, with the way that one idea leads to another, something that your first instinct might tell you to discount just might lead to the perfect concept for starting a new home-based business.

If you are comfortable measuring and counting fat in foods you eat, you will soon develop an instinct for estimating the fat content of your food choices and how it relates to your daily requirements.

Unfortunately, this instinct normally does not include a stop mechanism, so many people find counting fat grams is the best way to moderate fat intake.

Try these sample menu plans to develop an instinct for how much food is included in a 1400 calorie diet.

The first instinct when looking for a chart might be to look on sites like Amazon.com and just order the flashiest, prettiest design.

Her first instinct was to scramble to the back of the bus and climb out.

Maybe there was nothing going on, but gut instinct said there was a story here – something big.

The warning instinct faded, leaving her pleased to see him again.

She held it with two hands and retreated to the fountain, unable to shake the instinct that said the dagger on the fountain was the same.

Awareness filled and overwhelmed her senses, blinding her to all but instinct and the sound of her breathing.

Carmen's first instinct was not to say anything, but too much had been said already and Alex deserved some defense.

Xander's initial instinct was that he wanted no one around the strange human he discovered.

Her first instinct was to run back to the shadow world, but she had a hard time looking away from the two hideous creatures battling it out in Hannah.s home.

The instinct that warned her of there being something off about the kid grew when he met her gaze.

Her first instinct was to tell him to go to hell, now that her cousins were safe.

Still there is much in the Bible against which every instinct of my being rebels, so much that I regret the necessity which has compelled me to read it through from beginning to end.

My instinct tells me that my head is an organ for burrowing, as some creatures use their snout and fore paws, and with it I would mine and burrow my way through these hills.

So perfect is this instinct, that once, when I had laid them on the leaves again, and one accidentally fell on its side, it was found with the rest in exactly the same position ten minutes afterward.

While the troops, dividing into two parts when passing around the Kremlin, were thronging the Moskva and the Stone bridges, a great many soldiers, taking advantage of the stoppage and congestion, turned back from the bridges and slipped stealthily and silently past the church of Vasili the Beatified and under the Borovitski gate, back up the hill to the Red Square where some instinct told them they could easily take things not belonging to them.

Though he heard and saw nothing around him he found his way by instinct and did not go wrong in the side streets that led to the Povarskoy.

All conscience effort to think fled and was replaced by a new instinct, the primal need to feed.

He glanced around the tiny place, unable to rid himself of the instinct that warned him he was missing something.

She didn't let herself listen to the instinct that told her the body she'd seen was wearing the clothes she bought him.

Jenn let her instincts take over, ignoring the instinct that told her no mortal should be able to fight one guardsman, let alone three.

For their sake, Xander subdued the lethal instinct that made him want to snatch Jessi, haul her away somewhere quiet and do whatever it took to pull the truth from her.

Adam Ferguson (Institutes of Moral Philosophy, p. 119, new ed., 1800) argues that " the desire for immortality is an instinct, and can reasonably be regarded as an indication of that which the author of this desire wills to do."

We had Helen's picture taken with a fuzzy, red-eyed little poodle, who got himself into my lady's good graces by tricks and cunning devices known only to dogs with an instinct for getting what they want.

She knows with unerring instinct what is right, and does it joyously.

He saw that his championship of the doctor's wife in her queer trap might expose him to what he dreaded more than anything in the world--to ridicule; but his instinct urged him on.

But when he came across a man of position his instinct immediately told him that this man could be useful, and without any premeditation Prince Vasili took the first opportunity to gain his confidence, flatter him, become intimate with him, and finally make his request.

She felt that the allurements instinct had formerly taught her to use would now be merely ridiculous in the eyes of her husband, to whom she had from the first moment given herself up entirely--that is, with her whole soul, leaving no corner of it hidden from him.

An uneasy instinct filled her, the same that warned her about General Greene.

Instinct took over, urging her towards the gateway.

She had made a list of questions, but after asking half of them, she wound up setting them aside and letting instinct guide her.

In dark winter mornings, or in short winter afternoons, I sometimes heard a pack of hounds threading all the woods with hounding cry and yelp, unable to resist the instinct of the chase, and the note of the hunting-horn at intervals, proving that man was in the rear.

Her maternal instinct told her that Natasha had too much of something, and that because of this she would not be happy.