Word: instinctiveness
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...into the provincial aristocracy of Portland, Ore. At his Episcopalian christening his sponsors gave him the name of John Silas Reed. He grew up to be a gangling, delicate boy, good at swimming, headstrong and difficult in class. "Defiance was not a principle with him; it was an instinct." His family sent him east to school, then to Harvard. Reed soon became a well-known but not a popular member of his class. Fiercely ambitious, fiercely sensitive, he was regarded as pushing and unsound...
...Then give him a chance to steal a loaf of bread and he will respond culturally. But where biology stops and culture begins is a question over which sociologists, psychologists and anthropologists have quarreled long & loud. In essence their dispute is the ancient one of Nature v. Nurture, of Instinct v. Conditioning, of Heredity v. Environment. Dr. Gordon Willard Allport of Harvard feels that there have been too few concrete demonstrations of how much truth there is on each side. Such a demonstration he published last week in Character & Personality...
...there any physicist who believes that we shall never get any inside view [of the behavior of single electrons]? To believe this is logically possible without contradiction; but it is so very contrary to my scientific instinct that I cannot forego the search for a more complete conception...
...Hitler's action was easily explainable and was merely executed in self-defense" he declared. "If a state such as New York or Massachusetts were left unguarded against foreign enemies, our immediate instinct would be to fortify it, and that is just what Hitler has done with the Rhineland...
...have often wondered why "Kitty" put on such a show, especially before undergraduates. Perhaps it was the eccentricity of genius or the satisfaction of an innate dramatic instinct, but to me it seemed that "Kitty" was essentially a shy and timid man and that his "act" was a kind of defense mechanism...