Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1916-01-25

Liking for One Study No Proof It's Your
Lifework.
Instinct is little more or less than
muscular precision handed down by
| past generations. Habit is the
adaptation of hereditary machinery
to present needs, and differs from
instinct only with regard to the orig
inality of the pattern and tho Sc
quenee of certain sl1ilful or oft-re-
peated acts
A man may be a fiddler by habit
/ built upon instinct for music or he
may be a musician, irrespective of
any natural musical ability, because
his father so determined.
Instinct means that the pattern
and the opportune, moment of any
movement of precision has been
handed down loaded and ready to hit
the bulls-eye. Habit means that the
pattern and the opportunity for exc
cution has been acquired by practice
and learning. A bird pecks its way
out of the egg shell and later on
builds a nest by instinct. A child
can break an egg or build a nest only
by the habit that comes from re-
peated failures and final success.
A duck takes to water and boy
to his fists by instinct, but a man
takes to drink and a swan to fight
ing only by training in these vicious
habits
Habit like instinct, is combina-
ton of muscular or mental move
ments that work in a serial order.
If an instinct is present in certain
races and is not aroused somehow in
some individuals, that instinct may
be lost Habits also are possible in
that Nynpfn1lW
absent because the events or objects
necessary to call them into being do
not present themselves as incentives
or initiatives.
Instinct, Habit and Reasoning.
Temptation is One of the impulses
that start habits. Since habits are
acquired only by repeated stimuli or
impulses of the same kind, one
temptation is rarely enough to make
a man fall.
Yielding to temptation is the
beginning of habit The street
phrase, ITO fall for something means
travelling the road of new habit. 1t
may be good, bad or Indifferent, but
a temptation was necessary to start
it, Isolated persons and others clois-
tered from the worlds myriads of
stimuli have few and simple habits.
All organized movements of man,
animals and plants are comprised
under the names of instinct and
habits. Separate or disjointed. indi-
viduai and accidental responses are
the only exceptions. These are intel
lectual.
Most men and women are wholly
instructive and habitual in thoughts
and activities throughout life. Per-
sons. of course, differ much in the
number and kinds of haphazard, ram
dom behavior. You may display all
sorts of grotesque and clumsy actions
on a slack wire before you acquire
the habit of balancing yourself and
walking gracefully along on the wire.
You may be one of those persons who
cannot learn to do such an act. IT
appropriate muscular motion does not
appear after repeated awkward at
tempts, you may think that the work,
performance or play calls for too
much expenditure OF practice and
time for you to bother about learn
ing it.
Notwithstanding all this. I am
tenaciously of the conviction that u
healthy person can learn anything.
1t may take one man three years and
another three months to accomplish
a certain thing, due to difference or
inherited misdemeanors of attention
and sensations, yet the slower man
will have the habit and the knowledge
at the termination of feeting years
as we'll as the quicker man.
Man Can Learn Anything.
The choice of a vocation, career
or an occupation is thus shown not