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— Abuses: Clanship for improper objects, attachment to worthless indi- 

 viduals. It is generally strong in women. 



5. CoMBATiYENESs. — Usts: Couragc to meet danger and overcome difficulties, 

 tendency to oppose and attack whatever requires opposition, and resist 

 unjust encroachments. — Muses: Love of contention, and tendency to 

 provoke and assault. This feeling obviously adapts man to a world in 

 M^hich danger and difficulty abound. 



6. Destructiyeness. — Uses: Desire to destroy noxious objects, and to kill 

 for food. It is very discernible in carnivorous animals. — Muses: Cruelty, 

 murder, desire to torment, tendency to passion, rage and harshness, and 

 severity in speech and writing. This feeling places man in harmony with 

 death and destruction, which are woven into the system of sublunary 

 creation. 



C The love of life. 



(Appetite FOR FOOD. — ZTses; Nutrition. — Muses: Gluttony and drunken- 

 ness. 



7: Secretiyeness. — Uses: Tendency to restrain within the mind the various 

 emotions and ideas that involuntarily present themselves, until the judgment 

 has approved of giving them utterance; it is simply the propensity to 

 conceal, and is an ingredient in prudence. — Abuses: Cunning, deceit, 

 duplicity, and lying. 



8. Acquisitiveness. — Uses: Desire to possess, and tendency to accumulate 

 articles of utility, to provide against want. — Abuses: Inordinate desire of 

 property, selfishness, avarice, theft. 



9. Constructiveness. — Uses: Desire to build and construct wwks of art.— 

 Abuses: Construction of engines to injure or destroy, and fabrication of 

 objects to deceive mankind. 



Genus II. SENTIMENTS. 

 I. Sentiments common to Man and the Lower Animals. 



10, Self-esteem.— i!75es; Self-respect, self-interest, love of independence, per- 

 sonal dignity.— ^6^65; Pride, disdain, overweening conceit, excessive 

 selfishness, love of dominion. 



11. Love of approbation.— £/^6^65; Desire of the esteem of others, love of 

 praise, desire of fame or ^\ovj,~ Abuses: Vanity, ambition, thirst for praise 

 independently of praise-worthiness. 



