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love (not the passion of love, § 308). Other conceptions, 

 desiresj instincts, and passions, are brought to bear upon the 

 object by the sensational volition of the animal, so that the 

 fulfilment of the instinct may be attained. Thus the volitional 

 actions of lasciviousness, jealousy, amorous enticements, as well 

 as the discrimination of the beloved object and its sensational 

 selection from all others, are to be explained. As a pure 

 instinct, there is no knowledge of its object and intent; so 

 that, even man, so long as it does not attain to be an in- 

 stinctive passion, does not know how to investigate the origin of 

 his enchantment and mental disorder (263). He never imagines, 

 that the final object of the strange disquiet which thrills 

 through his whole frame is sexual congress; and amidst the 

 effort, he literally does not know what he wishes, until the 

 blind instinct becomes an emotional instinct, and opens his 

 eyes (289). If amorousness were a primary passion, it would 

 not be accompanied by the natural impulse; it would be a 

 sensational desire for sexual congress more gentle and more 

 volitional, never found in animals, although sometimes in man. 



303. The maternal instinct is usually excited blindly and 

 naturally. The parent animal knows neither why she broods, 

 nor what she hatches or gives birth to. She tends, allures, 

 covers, nourishes, and protects her young, blindly : nay, will 

 perform these offices for young animals she has never known 

 before, and which require attentions entirely different from 

 those she affords, consequently, without any knowledge of the 

 objects or aims of the instinct. When, however, an animal 

 becomes conscious of these, the volition co-operates with the 

 impulse of the instinct, and we have the emotional instinct of 

 love of offspring. This consciousness induces acts of sen- 

 sational volition, whereby other conceptions, desires, instincts, 

 and passions are directed towards the attainment of the objects 

 of the instinct, and thus the various actions connected with the 

 care of the young are developed. 



304. But although in the instinctive passions or emotional 

 instincts, animals readily perform, by acts of sensational will, 

 that which nature works in them, naturally and necessarily, 

 by means of the instinct, and whether they will co-operate or 

 not ; still, as is to be shown subsequently (348), the mind has 

 not only no command over the conceptions and desires which it 



