...to the main propositions set forth in Social Psychology. " Directly or indirectly," he says there, " the instincts are the prime movers of all human activity : by the conative or impulsive force of some impulse (or of some habit derived from an instinct) every train of thought, however cold and passionless...

...McDougal (Social Psychology), approaching the subject from the standpoint of genetic psychology, says: "Directly or indirectly the instincts are the prime movers of all human action" (p. 44). ". . . . pleasure and pain are not in themselves springs of action, but, at the most,...

...exponent of this thought on its psychological side expresses Rousseau's view with great exactness : " \\'e may say, then, that directly or indirectly the instincts are the prime movers of all hnman activity; by the conative or impulsive force of some instinct (or of some habit derived from...

...activity. The instinctive mental process " results from " the excitement of an instinct (p. 46). " We may say, then, that directly or indirectly the...habit derived from an instinct) every train of thought ... is borne along towards its end, and every bodily activity is initiated and sustained. The instinctive...

...human activity; by the conative or impulsive force of some instinct (or of some habit derived from some 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 sustained. The instinctive impulses determine...

...unreasonable ways.1 Later we find as a more positive declaration of the thesis of modern 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...

...unreasonable ways.1 Later we find as a more positive declaration of the thesis of modern 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...

...tendencies with the 'instinct' tendencies, or tendencies derived therefrom. It is neither true to say that "directly or indirectly, the instincts are the prime movers of all human activity," that "the instinctive impulses supply the driving power, by which all mental activities are sustained...

...intellect. It is wholly in accordance with the spirit of Hume's thought for McDougall to write thus: "We may say, then that directly or indirectly the...instincts are the prime movers of all human activity, . . . take away these instinctive dispositions with their powerful impulses, and the organism would...

...fairly well established "sentiments." These sentiments are held to be the controlling social forces. As McDougall says: We may say then that directly or indirectly...however cold and passionless it may seem, is borne along toward its end, and every bodily activity is initiated and sustained. The instinctive impulses determine...