Word: instinctive
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sciences." It was to be expected that a man of Mr. Matthew Arnold's peculiar views,-if we may call them such,-would put himself strongly in favor of the classical education, and he had done so. And further, he appears to be very confident, relying on the "instinct for beauty" in all men, which is served best by Greek literature, that the study of Greek, becoming more rational in its methods, will go on in a constantly increasing degree. "Women will again study Greek as Lady Jane Grey did. I believe that in that chain of fords with which...
...secondary the principal at the wrong moment, and the principal they have at the wrong moment treated as secondary. Everywhere we see the beginnings of confusion, and we want a clue to some sound order and authority. This we can only get by going back upon the actual instincts and forces which rule our life, seeing them as they really are, connecting them with other instincts and forces, and enlarging our whole view and rule of life." If these words apply with any force to England, with how much greater force do they apply to America...
...charivari, or attack the President with bad eggs, or conspire against the college authorities and get expelled in a body. They have more affection and respect for their Alma Mater-more esprit de corps-more urbane manners. Students however, are not a class suigeneris. They are what their instincts and surroundings make them. An educated gentlemen is apt to be a gentleman even though he be a student; and being a student doesn't prevent him from being a rowdy, if he was born such. Mobs of course lose the human instinct; and we need not look to college-life...
...Darwin's essay on "Instinct," which has recently been published, has awakened but little discussion. The general opinion seems to agree with Prof. Huxley, in that it is of very little importance, and had better have been left unpublished...
...posthumus essay by Darwin on the "Evolution of Instinct" has been found among his papers. It is a splendid example of exhaustive induction, and will be read at a meeting of the Linnxan Society...