...every train of thought, however cold and passionless it may seem, is borne along towards its end ... All the complex intellectual apparatus of the most...developed mind is but a means towards these ends." In these impulses " we are confronted with the central mystery of life and will " (p. 44). There is...

...Conative tendency — cf. Brit. J. of Psychol., p. 261 ff. "The instinctive impulses determine the ends of all activities and supply the driving power by which all mental activities are sustained." 'Soc. Psychol.,' p. 44. 4 "I hold to the reality of teleological determination of human and animal...

...end, and every bodily activity is initiated and sustained. The instinctive impulses determine the ends of all activities and supply the driving power by which all mental activities are sustained. . . . These impulses are the mental forces that maintain and shape all the life of individuals and...

...ancestry. Indeed, according to this view, " the instincts are the prime movers of all human activity," " and all the complex intellectual apparatus of the most highly developed mind is but the instrument by which these [instinctive] impulses seek their satisfactions." And this opinion stands...

...it may seem, is borne along towards its end, and every bodily activity is initiated and sustained. The instinctive impulses determine the end of all...towards these ends, is but the instrument by which those impulses seek their satisfactions, while pleasure and pain do but serve to guide them in their...

...it may seem, is borne along towards its end, and every bodily activity is initiated and sustained. The instinctive impulses determine the end of all...towards these ends', is but the instrument by which those impulses seek their satisfactions,- while pleasure and pain do but serve to guide them in their...

...end, and every bodily activity is initiated and sustained. The instinctive impulses determine the ends of all activities and supply the driving power by...apparatus of the most highly developed mind is but a means toward these ends, is but the instrument by which these impulses seek their satisfactions, while pleasure...

...important fact Dr. McDougall appears to deny. " The instinctive impulses," he writes, " determine the ends of all activities, and supply the driving power by...mental activities are sustained ; and all the complex apparatus of the most highly developed mind is but a means towards these ends. . . ."2 With every new...

...psychology, that directly or indirectly the instincts are the prime movers of all human activity . . . and all the complex intellectual apparatus of the most highly developed mind is ... but the instrument by which [the instinctive] impulses seek their satisfaction.1 An instinct is defined...

...psychology, that directly or indirectly the instincts are the prime movers of all human activity . . . and all the complex intellectual apparatus of the most highly developed mind is ... but the instrument by which [the instinctive] impulses seek their satisfaction.1 An instinct is defined...