...indirectly in response to the instincts. A famous passage of McDougall's sets forth this point of view: The instincts are the prime movers of all human activity;...the conative or impulsive force of some instinct, every train of thought, however cold and passionless it may seem, is borne along toward its end, and...

...individuals and of nations are gradually developed under the guidance of the intellectual faculties. We may say, then, that directly or indirectly the...instincts are the prime movers of all human activity. . . . The instinctive impulses determine the ends of all activities and supply the driving power by...

...activities. He speaks definitely and emphatically on this point. "The instincts," he says, " arethe prime movers of all human activity; by the conative or impulsive force of some instinct, every train of thought, however cold and passionless it may seem, is borne along towards its end. All...

...assertion that all our activities of whatever kind are instinctive in origin. "The instincts," he says, "are the prime movers of all human activity; by the conative or impulsive force of some instinct every train of thought, however cold and passionless it may seem, is borne along towards its end ......

...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,...

...wonderful clockwork whose mainspring had been removed or a steam engine whose fires had been drawn." Directly or indirectly the instincts are the prime movers of all human activity. What, then, of pleasure and pain that former thinkers had held to be the prime movers of human nature....

...springs of action of another class, namely, acquired habits of thought and action" (p. 44). Again, McDougall says: "We may say, then, that directly or...are the prime movers of all human activity; by the impulsive force of some instinct (or some habit derived from an instinct), every train of thought,...

...difficult to recognize them in the adult. Mr. MacDougall, in his book on Social Psychology, suggests " that directly or indirectly the instincts are the prime movers of all human activity. . . . The instinctive impulses determine the ends of all activities and supply the driving power by...

...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 sustained2,"...

...aspects of society. It is true that their significance is not seen solely in their social functions: "Directly or indirectly the instincts are the prime movers of all human activity." But it is at the same time claimed that they have particularly important social expressions. And MacDougall...