...Ibid., p. 12 ff. »'Soc. Psychol.,' p. 29. 8 Conative tendency — cf. Brit. J. of Psychol., p. 261 ff. "The instinctive impulses determine the ends of all...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...

...impulsive force of some instinct (or of some habit derived from an instinct) every train of thought ... is borne along towards its end, and every bodily activity...power by which all mental activities are sustained. . . . These impulses are the mental forces that maintain and shape all the life of individuals and...

...This supremely important fact Dr. McDougall appears to deny. " The instinctive impulses," he writes, " determine the ends of all activities, and supply the...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...

...instinct), every train of thought, however cold and passionless it may seem, is borne along toward its end, and every bodily activity is initiated and...determine the ends of all activities and supply the driving-power by which all mental activities are sustained; and all the complex intellectual apparatus...

...certain innate specific tendencies of the mind that are common to all members of any one species." 1 "The instinctive impulses determine the ends of all...power by which all mental activities are sustained." » This postulate is of absolutely fundamental importance in scientific psychology, as will appear...

...the instincts are " the essential springs or motive powers of all thought and action," that they " determine the ends of all activities and supply the...power by which all mental activities are sustained," or that " in them we are confronted with the central mystery of life and mind and will." l In the same...

...psychologists with an individualistic bias. McDougall brings out the importance of these human instincts. "We may say, then, that directly or indirectly the...power by which all mental activities are sustained. . . . Take away these instinctive dispositions with their powerful impulses, and the organism would...

...reaction patterns of animals. "Instinctive impulses" determine not the character of the behavior but "the ends of all activities, and supply the driving...power by which all mental activities are sustained." This emphasis upon the general character of the "end" of the activity rather than upon the form of...

...innate specific tendencies which are cemmon to all members of any one species ".1 And he further says, " The instinctive impulses determine the ends of all...power by which all mental activities are sustained ". The great primary instincts each have certain emotions closely connected with them. These instincts...

...repressed. Tead speaks of the instinctive energies as being "stubbornly insistent." McDougall declares : "The instinctive impulses determine the ends of all...power by which all mental activities are sustained." James referred to an instinct as "irresistible." Simons finds instinct "powerful and essential." Lippmann...