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feelings and likings—and it is in this respect that
men most differ—and as they grow up in what
is called their environment, their bias and special
predispositions unconsciously select and organize
their experiences to feed and develop their special
liking ; each man differently, as we may see in
our children, how one child with a musical turn
will observe sounds, another with a mechanical
turn will be delighted by taking a clock to pieces,
while a born painter will be unhappy without
a box of colours. These inborn feelings and
likings are—together with the great primal
Instincts and Passions—the motive power of all
our conduct, and they lie like an engine-room
hidden away in the basement. And moral
philosophers explain that the Reason is set over
them to regulate them: its chief function in
this respect being to observe and govern. All
will agree : for example, Love and Hatred are
motive inborn forces: Reason approves Love
but disapproves of Hatred as a working principle,
and keeps it under,
. Art and Morals were not invented by Reason,
They come to life and are nourished in this