3. What is the basis for the distinction made by Thorndike between reflexes, instincts, and inborn capacities?
4. Read carefully Thorndike's Inventory of Original Tendencies. What illustrations of the different original traits occur to you?
5. What do you understand by Park's statement that man is not born human?
6. "Human nature is a superstructure." What value has this metaphor? What are its limitations? Suggest a metaphor which more adequately illustrates the relation of original nature to acquired nature.
7. In what sense can it be said that habit is a means of controlling original nature?
8. What, according to Park, is the relation of character to instinct and habit? Do you agree with him?
9. What do you understand by the statement that "original nature is blind?"
10. What relation has an ideal to (a) instinct and (b) group life?
11. In what sense may we speak of the infant as the "natural man"?
12. To what extent are racial differences (a) those of original nature, (b) those acquired from experience?