Word: instinctiveness
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...later, said Anna, she had learned through an entirely different case the identity of the woman who had her child. She now wanted him back. In his recommendation to the Court of Appeals, tantamount to final decision, Commissioner Limbaugh tenderly took note: "The indescribable but eloquent expression of motherly instinct and affection revealed by Anna Ware when she first saw the baby in court was significant...
...influence "tended to depreciate the value of the mighty instrument of reason." By casting off restraints on emotion, it has led to an "unwholesome divorce between the extravagancies of feeling and the limitations of life." Most importantly, it has "consecrated prejudice under the sacred names of Nature and instinct." Yet, unlike the Humanists, who have held Rousseau responsible for most of the evils of the modern world, Ellis does not stop his analysis
...studies Rousseau's influence on modern concepts of beauty, on modern ideals of human love, modern political theories, eventually concludes: "Rousseau stood, in opposition to our artificial and inharmonious civilisation, for the worth of life as a whole, the simple undivided rights of life, the rights of instinct, the rights of emotion. . . . This was the way in which he renovated life, and effected a spiritual revolution which no mere man of letters has ever effected. ... He is the supreme individualist, and yet his doctrines furnish the foundations for socialism, even in its oppressive forms. He is the champion...
...marked the introduction of the "hidden ball" or spinner plays. Haughton had developed these the summer before by experimenting with the plays, using his wife, famed for her judgment, and his dog, which was an excellent ball-chaser. Finding that both womanly institution and canine instinct were successfully fooled in trying to locate the holder of the ball, he decided that plays of this type were feasible in actual play...
...passions of the times. Consequently he is socially ostracized, is called a coward by his beloved cousin (Margaret Sullavan), and is torn by divided loyalties. Before the war is over, he capitulates and joins the Southern side, and then comes the complete transformation into a soldier, whose one dominating instinct is to kill...