All these three things form the _natural Me_. But all these things are _objects_, properly so called, to the thought which at any time may be doing the thinking; and if the zoölogical and evolutionary point of view is the true one, there is no reason why one object _might_ not arouse passion and interest as primitively and instinctively as any other. The phenomenon of passion is in origin and essence the same, whatever be the target upon which it is discharged; and what the target actually happens to be is solely a question of fact. I might conceivably be as much fascinated, and as primitively so, by the care of my neighbor's body as by the care of my own. I _am_ thus fascinated by the care of my child's body. The only check to such exuberant non-egoistic interests is natural selection, which would weed out such as were very harmful to the individual or to his tribe. Many such interests, however, remain unweeded out--the interest in the opposite sex, for example, which seems in mankind stronger than is called for by its utilitarian need; and alongside of them remain interests, like that in alcoholic intoxication, or in musical sounds, which, for aught we can see, are without any utility whatever. The sympathetic instincts and the egoistic ones are thus coördinate. They arise, so far as we can tell, on the same psychologic level. The only difference between them is that the instincts called egoistic form much the larger mass. =Summary.=--The following table may serve for a summary of what has been said thus far. The empirical life of Self is divided, as below, into | MATERIAL. | SOCIAL. | SPIRITUAL. -----------+-------------------+-----------------------+--------------------- |Bodily Appetites |Desire to Please, |Intellectual, Moral | and Instincts. | be Noticed, Admired, | and Religious SELF- |Love of Adornment, | etc. | Aspirations, SEEKING. | Foppery, |Sociability, Emulation,| Conscientiousness. | Acquisitiveness, | Envy, | | Constructiveness.| Love, Pursuit | |Love of Home, etc. | of Honor, Ambition, | | | etc. | -----------+-------------------+-----------------------+--------------------- |Personal Vanity, |Social and Family |Sense of Moral or SELF- | Modesty, etc. | Pride, Vainglory, | Mental Superiority, ESTIMATION.|Pride of Wealth, | Snobbery, | Purity, etc. | Fear of Poverty. | Humility, |Sense of Inferiority | | Shame, etc. | or of Guilt. -----------+-------------------+-----------------------+--------------------- B) THE SELF AS KNOWER.