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Sometimes the author himself seems to float upward on a gust of wind, into the airy zones of fable, which seem to have been his instinctive home.
But a deeper reason for investigating bequests is that they reveal something about people's instinctive sense of justice.
In an influential 1995 paper, the social psychologists Roy Baumeister and Mark Leary reviewed all such studies and concluded that we have an instinctive "need to belong."
Might prejudice--the hatred between the Rattlers and the Eagles, the Klees depriving the Kandinskys, the surgical residents' disdain for meddies--be instinctive too?
According to the great Danish linguist, Otto Jespersen, there are five theories to account for the origin of language: the bow-wow theory, in which speech imitated animal calls; the pooh-pooh theory, in which people made instinctive sounds through physical or emotional reactions; the dingdong theory, in which people reacted to the environment; the yo-he-ho theory, in which people spoke when working together; and the la-la theory, in which speech arose from the romantic side of life.
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