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with tlie hunting, the acquisitive, the home-constructing 

 and the tool-constructing instincts, as impulses to self- 

 seeking of tlie bodily kind. Really, however', these latter 

 instincts, with amativeness, parental fondness, curiosity 

 and emulation, seek not only the development of the 

 bodily Self, but that of the material Self in the widest pos- 

 sible sense of the word. 



Our social self-seeking, in turn, is carried on directly 

 through our amativeness and friendliness, our desire to 

 please and attract notice and admiration, our emulation 

 and jealousy, our love of glory, influence, and power, 

 and indirectly through whichever of the material self- 

 geeking impulses prove serviceable as means to social 

 ends. That the direct social self-seeking impulses are 

 probably pure instincts is easily seen. The noteworthy 

 thing about the desire to be ' recognized ' by others is that 

 its strength has so little to do with the worth of the recog- 

 nition computed in sensational or rational terms. We are 

 crazy to get a visiting-list which shall be large, to be able 

 to say when any one is mentioned, " Oh ! I know him well," 

 and to be bowed to in the street by half the people w^e 

 meet. Of course distinguished friends and admiring 

 recognition are the most desirable — Thackeray somewhere 

 asks his readers to confess whether it would not give 

 each of them an exquisite j^leasure to be met walking down 

 Pall Mall with a duke on either arm. But in default of 

 dukes and envious salutations almost auj'thing will do for 

 some of us ; and there is a whole race of beings to-day 

 whose passion is to keep their names in the newspapers,, 

 no matter under what heading, * arrivals and departures,' 

 ' personal paragraphs,' * interviews,' — gossip, even scandal, 

 will suit them if nothing better is to be had. Guiteau, 

 Garfield's assassin, is an example of the extremity to wliicK 

 this sort of craving for the notoriety of print may go m a 

 pathological case. The newspapers bounded his mental 

 horizon ; and in the poor wretch's prayer on the scafi"old, 

 one of the most heartfelt expressions was : " The newspaper 

 press of this land has a big bill to settle with thee, O Lord !" 



Not only the people but the ]daces and things I know 

 enlarge my Self in a sort of metaphoric social way. 'p* 



