There are others who say that Christ appeals to the gentler instincts of man,to his unselfishness, his meekness and compassion.

But none the less this instinct for the Quest is still the gallant way of youth, confronted by a sense of the homelessness they cannot think will last.

In the midst of that deathly scene, the flag seemed instinct with a sinister liveliness.

In Froebel's original training course, his Kindergarten teachers were to be "trained to the observation and care of the earliest germs of the religious instinct in man."

Opportunity is an instinct to the man who dares.

McDougall, once of Oxford, now of Harvard, introduced into psychology the idea of the simple instinct as a unit of behaviour, regarding the most complex conduct as a compounding of instincts.

One book much read in our schools says that 'cruelty is a stronger, earlier, and more tenacious human instinct than sympathy;' and another that 'half the pleasure of power lies in giving pain, and half the remainder in being praised for sparing it.' ...

He loved the green road where the wild roses blushed and the honeysuckle drooped its fragrant petals, but most of all he loved the graceful horses and sleek cows which just now were grazing in the fields on either side; and the shy creatures, with the subtle instinct by which all animals test the quality of human friendship, took him into their confidence and came gladly at his call and did his bidding.

Secondly, and perhaps consequently, his sex instincts have become overlayered with other more labile instincts, with habits and customs and necessities that appear to oust the sex instinct into an altogether decentralized position.

But, though the clinging to existence is perhaps the most irrational of all those purely animal instincts on emancipation from which we pride ourselves, it is the strongest and the most lasting.

His instinct about women, finding no scruples in the way, had led him into present favour by the shortest road.

Or, had a whale come bearing down from upper waters, as they sometimes do, there would have been a disturbance first, made by the spouting and slashing that our instinct at once would have told us came from some monster of the deep.

He knew that her love for him was of the fanciful, romantic, high-flown order; and as such, it appealed to every chivalrous instinct within him.

The Truth of it is, were we merely to follow Nature in these great Duties of Life, tho we have a strong Instinct towards the performing of them, we should be on both Sides very deficient.

But history proves the existence of an instinct among all racescall it depraved, if you will, the fact remainsleading them to employ narcotics.

Had a madness of some sort driven all human instincts from them?

It is an instinct like a wild thing's, and possible only to those who have gone all their days light-shod in the forest.

From childhood he had listened to the sounds of the organ; doubtless himself often gave breath to the soundboard with his hands on the lever of the bellows, while his father's volant touch, Instinct through all proportions low and high, Fled and pursued transverse the resonant fugue; and the father's organ-harmony we yet hear in the son's verse as in none but his.

He holds that their foundation lies in the social instincts under which term are included family ties.

From the outset George believed the physicians were wrong in this; but he dared not urge his instinct against their knowledge; and he was patient of nature, and so the days went on, on, on; and there was no change except that Annie grew steadily better and our hearts grew steadily sicker and sicker until we almost looked back with longing on the days when we feared she would die.

One of his friends who concealed strong business instincts beneath a sentimental exterior had suggested souvenirs and given him a spectacle-glass said to have belonged to Henry VIII., and he was busy searching his pockets for an adequate return.

He was a peasant's son and born to raise grapes, or else to exercise his authoritative instincts over the field labourers, like a watch-dog.

Hence we can account for the subtle play of instinct throughout all thinking.

In her present condition of mind and heart, she desired and needed solitude: she was one of those who when troubled rush from their fellows, and, urged by the human instinct after the divine, seek refuge in lonelinessthe cave on Horeb, the top of Mount Sinai, the closet with shut doorany lonely place where, unseen, and dreading no eye, the heart may call aloud to the God hidden behind the veil of the things that do appear.

" "I don't know that I care to live," she began, turning with her old instinct toward an attitude which before now had robbed him of his harshness.