His hot soul grew parched and faint with longing, and all the instincts of his battling blood began to war among themselves.
I have known few," writes her son, "in whom the religious instincts were so active and profound, and who seemed to me to enjoy so completely the life of God in the soul of man.
Everybody knows what animal instincts are like; it is only necessary to go to a zoölogical garden to see them in operation on a large scale.
Each of these views assumes that the instincts have been developed from more simple animal actions by a gradual process; but they differ as to the elements originally entering into the actions which afterward became instinctive.
It certainly meets the objection to the reflex theory which was stated just above--the objection that some of the instincts could not have arisen by gradual reflex adaptations.
Imperfect instincts are those which do not fully equip the animal with the function in question, but only take him part way to the goal.
This holds that instincts are reflex actions, like the closing of the eye when an object threatens to enter it, only much more complex.
This theory is directly confirmed by the facts, already spoken of, which show that many instincts are imperfect, but are pieced out and made effective by the intelligent imitations and acquisitions of the young creatures.
It also accounts for the extremely intelligent appearance which many instincts have.
Mount gaped at me, then one of his rare and delicate instincts moved him to withdraw.
I called him a coward, a Huron, a gentleman with the instincts of a pedagogue.
Both are Armenians, and either might be taken as a model for the embodiment of the fighting instincts in man.
Be they immigrants or aboriginal, the character of their surroundings is in harmony with the instincts of their race.
He must come at mature age, when the heats of youth are passed and his natural instincts have been brought under control.
These corroborating proofs I shall leave to your own inference, and proceed to the third head, under which I proposed to consider the instincts of insects--that of their extraordinary development.
The second head under which I proposed contrasting the instincts of insects with those of the larger animals, was that of their number in the same individual.
The instincts of the larger animals seem capable of but slight modification.
It is, however, in the deviations of the instincts of insects and their accommodation to circumstances, that the exquisiteness of these faculties is most decidedly manifested.
The different instincts of the bee are called into action in an order regulated solely by the needs of the society.
Such, then, are the exquisiteness, the number, and the extraordinary development of the instincts of insects.
There were many tents pitched around the cabin where Frank distributed the necessities of human sustenance; but Dude's instincts drew him to the kitchen, and down he and his canine followers flopped before the door.
All one's slumbering revolutionaryinstincts waken at the thought of any single moralist wielding such powers of life and death.
These mental instincts in different men are the spontaneous variations upon which the intellectual struggle for existence is based.
The only remaining alternative, the attitude of gnostical romanticism, wrenches my personal instincts in quite as violent a way.
Mephistophelian scepticism, indeed, will satisfy the head's play-instincts much better than any rigorous idealism can.
Some make the criterion external to the moment of perception, putting it either in revelation, the consensus gentium, the instincts of the heart, or the systematized experience of the race.
In addition to the higher instincts of parental affection and devotion which are so clearly developed we find among some animals undoubted signs of remorse, gratitude, affection, self-sacrifice.
The insidious growth of selfishness is a disease against which men should be most on their guard; but it is a grave though a common error to suppose that the unselfish instincts may be gratified without restraint.
The repression of the sensual instincts was the central fact in ascetic morals; but, even tested by this test, it is at least very doubtful whether it did not fail.
This is doubtless the outgrowth of the bogies and the "don'ts" which are calculated to check the child's explorative and investigative instincts in his nursery days.
But my strawberry-and-cream appetite is so overpowering that, like the lions at feeding time, my finer psychological instincts are blunted where satiation is in sight.
All this is mere historic incident, and has little to do with Francis's art instincts and ambitions.
A people which has condemned itself to racial suicide can have little chance when pitted against a nation in which healthier instincts prevail.
Everything depends upon the army in such a government as yours; for you have industriously destroyed all the opinions and prejudices, and, as far as in you lay, all the instincts which support government.
But we know that the study of embryonic origins does not suffice to make us understand animal life, which is not a scheme, but is composed of living beings which struggle, and in their struggle employ forces, instincts and passions.
Thence are born the primitive instincts of sociability and in life in promiscuity arise the first rudiments of sexual selection.
A man of energy and even of violence, born to make war, to ravage conquered countries and to massacre the vanquished, full of the savage instincts of the hunter and the fighter, he scarcely took count of human life.
What a start there was in the brain of the young girl endowed with all the instincts of a virtuous woman!
Our emotion and instincts are perfectly proper when you get down to fundamentals.
What business would I have running a grocery store, or a bank, or a real-estate office, when all my instincts rebel against it?
She was primitive enough in her instincts to feel a trifle glad of having retaliated in what her training compelled her to consider a "perfectly hoydenish" manner.
I can't find pleasure in a French novel written for the obvious purpose of appealing to instincts that interfere with perception of higher things than instincts.
But the fault is neither mine nor that of the Japanese: it is the fault of my ancestors,--the ferocious, wolfish hereditary instincts and tendencies of boreal mankind.
The law that inherited memory becomes transmuted into intuitions or instincts is not absolute.
The screams of the birds terrify me, and yet what do they do but follow the instincts of their nature?
Then their young heart, unsuspicious of deception, yields easier to the instincts of Nature's innocency, receiving like soft plastic wax the impress of that it admires.
He continued to pace the floor, now endeavouring to fortify his courage to the point of fighting, and now giving way to the cowardlyinstincts of his nature.
The boatman's chivalrous instincts were at once aroused; and, dropping the rein, he ran back a bit, and then sprang with a plunge into the canal.
And it is important to notice this, for today, in the education of the race, aesthetic instincts are often suppressed with Puritan vigor, and labor is made ugly and unwelcome.
Slavery deprived her of family life, set her to daily toil in the field, or appropriated her mother's instincts for the white child.
No; she is a child of nature, indulging her instinctswithout reflection.
There was no one to tell her aunt what new, strange instincts and aspirations were struggling to the light in Molly.
Strong instincts were entirely in accord with the older man's sober judgment of the situation.
There isn't anything left in him for his goodinstincts to work on.
Happily, the external brutality of attitude which Cochrane's expression so aptly conveyed yielded for the most part to noblerinstincts in the British officers.
Yet it will possess all the brute instincts and passions--the raw edges which do constantly shove through the culture varnish of the civilised man.
You, too, are thankful that her instincts served her true and that she never quite accepted the gift that seemed to have been proffered?
They had not been taught a certain particular fashion in which to express those instincts as have you and I and all artificial beings been taught.
The isolated pair merely expressed their instincts in the unartificial, natural way.
They had been hatched during the night, and following the instincts of their nature, were making their way, as they supposed, to their future forest home.
They must seek their own safety," he observed; "and their instincts may guide them to the least dangerous spot.
This monk, with all the vengeful instincts of an unsuccessful priest in him, raised a rebellion against the Renaissance in Rome.
Only evil instincts are there, and there is not even the courage of these evil instincts.
Because it had to thank noble and manly instincts for its origin--because it said yes to life, even to the rare and refined luxuriousness of Moorish life!
The transvaluation of Christian values,--an attempt with all available means, all instincts and all the resources of genius to bring about a triumph of the opposite values, the more noble values.
This hybrid image of decay, conjured up out of emptiness, contradiction and vain imagining, in which all the instincts of décadence, all the cowardices and wearinesses of the soul find their sanction!
Not, of course, to a priest: for his instincts prompt him to the lie that sickness is not sickness and lunatic asylums not lunatic asylums.
The vast lie of personal immortality destroys all reason, all natural instinct--henceforth, everything in the instincts that is beneficial, that fosters life and that safeguards the future is a cause of suspicion.
In order that love may be possible, God must become a person; in order that the lower instincts may take a hand in the matter God must be young.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "instincts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
