VI 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 



DOES your new religion help toward a larger 

 and freer life, toward more good-will and 

 tolerance, toward a keener appreciation of the 

 world in which we are placed, toward a wider out- 

 look and deeper and saner human relations? It will 

 help toward these things just in the degree in which 

 it springs from these things. 



§ 



The lower orders of animals act from impulse, 

 not from thought. The bird builds its nest from im- 

 pulse, incubates from impulse or inherited disposi- 

 tion, migrates from impulse, and weans its young 

 from impulse. Man acts from both impulse and 

 thought. He thinks about his acts. Thought in him 

 governs or controls impulse. He has an impulse to 

 wed and breed, but he stops to think about it, and 

 to plan for it. The sexual instinct sometimes masters 

 him and he assaults the female like a brute animal, 

 but on the whole he keeps it Under control. The 

 migrating impulse is strong in man as in other ani- 

 mals, but is more or less controlled. It is strong in 

 the spring, but judgment often makes him wait 

 till summer or fall to satisfy it. 



The impulse of fear often plasters the lower 

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