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normal human beings have these fundamental instincts. 

 Even St. Anthony does not get away from sex-impulses, 

 and the call of kinship echoes in the hermit's cave. 

 Many * old maids/ as they are called, are supremely 

 maternal, and the crusty bachelor has often a love of 

 children that even a philoprogenitive father might 

 envy. The possibility of shunting, transforming, sym- 

 bolising, transfiguring instinctive impulses which are 

 not directly satisfied, is well known ; and it strengthens 

 our faith in our humanity that while the thwarting of 

 fundamental instinctive impulses may lead to morbid 

 repression, it sometimes leads to ennoblement. The 

 psychical inheritance includes, besides intellectual 

 capacities and instinctive predispositions, an emotional 

 endowment. This expresses itself in such emotions as 

 courage and fear, joy and sorrow, sympathy and 

 jealousy. The aesthetic emotion is a good example of 

 a hereditary human character varying greatly in inten- 

 sity and refinement, but practically universal.^ 



(6) Rather different from the old-established bodily 

 and mental characters which we may almost call spe- 

 cific characters of Homo sapiens, there are features 

 or traits of a less fundamental, more superficial sort, 

 of later evolution, such as the colour of the eyes, 

 the shape of the nose and the ear, the proportions 

 of the lips, the kind of hair, the type of hand and so 

 on. The general specific organisation is very constant, 

 but the minor features differ greatly from race to 

 race, from stock to stock, just as the decorations on a 

 series of buildings may be diverse though the general 



