Word: instinctiveness
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...modern experience, all human instinct, goes to support the belief that the cure for other things than drunkenness lies in giving every man a chance of a decent and comfortable home, that at all events without that chance he will not be content and cannot be counted upon as a good citizen. What choice shall we make then? How shall we rate our fellow-citizens of tomorrow--in terms of money, or of men? If the former, perhaps you will make money. If the latter, without fail you will make men. Which...
Since the dramatic instinct is born in us, and follows us through life, should we not foster rather than ignore this possibility of a school of counciling, fearless, uplifting truth
...knew him well learned that this was in appearance only, and that his habit of blunt, direct speech was really the expression of a simple, earnest, democratic nature, scorning all pretense of super-refinement and anxious to meet all upon the terms of absolute equality. He combined the instinct of the true scholar with a wonderful breadth of sympathies and a fellow feeling...
...order to retain them in a Union which they had grown to detest, because they no longer controlled its central government. But when the northern states saw the south rushing into rebellion against our government, in order to set up an aristocracy of color and section, that deep instinct of self-preservation brought the north almost unanimously together in defense of the imperiled nation. Its instantaneous effect was to scatter the temporizing plans of old politicians. Those who previously had denounced and persecuted the anti-slavery minority, suddenly felt drawn into this wave of national sentiment, and now denounced...
...consecutive or continuous vocal bands, is only one illustration of the national tendency to do nothing by halves, which has resulted in many highly organized enterprises in business, politics and education. This ingenious mechanism of special cheering-sections, including elaborate rehearsals of songs and cries, appeals to the spectacular instinct in us and contributes to the unthinking enjoyment of the general audience. The objectionable features are a lack of spontaneity, the perfunctory punctuation of proceedings on the field by mechanical manifestations of approval or disapproval, and the risk that occasionally such well-meaning hordes of heelers, with their hectic cheers...