Word: instinctive
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...confined in the State Hospital for the Criminal Insane at Lima -this man heard muffled cries in the asylum. A huge, lunatic Negro had over- powered one of the guards and .was deliberately strangling him. Was it sane courage or his own deranged brute instinct that inspired burly George Remus to leap at the Negro maniac, to smash and batter the Negro with his fists until the throttled guard could get free; to continue fighting until, with the guard's help, the Negro was over- powered and clapped into a cell...
...ineffectuality of modern American criticism, hastens to show that the unsatisfactoriness of creative effort today is largely a result of the unsatisfactoriness of higher education. Consequently there is a lack of culture, a fact which renders Mr. Mencken's "verbal virtuosity" possible, and results in the creative instinct being stified in a welter of "idealism." Professor Babbitt in his cool analysis of facts succeeds in being distinctly more pessimistic and convincing than his arch-opponent in the lists of contemporary criticism...
...crops make too-small prices. If weather is bad, prices are good but many a farmer will have no crop to sell. Intelligent study of sound weather data will help stabilize his decision as to when to plant but the farmer still needs a gambler's instinct at planting time. And thereafter his fortune is in the lap of winds, rains, frosts...
...Everywhere, except in the moral realm, people know that they cannot successfully let themselves go or do as they please." The idea that it is the law of life to let an instinct like the sex instinct go was scoffed at by Mr. Fosdick. "Take the instinct of pugnacity," he said, "which is very deep in us. Well go out from this house now, get nearly run over by a car loose your temper, beat up the driver, batter in his head. How will you explain yourself to the judge tomorrow morning? Will you say, 'Your Honor...
...spite of the rapidity with which public opinion is manufactured by the press, the wise say that the fostering of an international spirit must be a gradual affair. The more foolish say that fighting is a natural instinct. But that the permanent peace which the world must have and the strong nationalism which has universal dominion over the human imagination are in complete opposition to one another and that one of them must be abandoned, diplomats either do not see or else do not care...