ABSTRACT
The Utilitarian theories fare little better when applied to the psychology of impulse. Hedonistic and some Utilitarian theories have too often sought by destroying the canons of ordinary morality and insisting that pleasure is the only good, to glorify another impulse, the impulse to gratify bodily appetites. In general either lack of vitality, or impulses which are oppressive or against life, will almost always result, if the spontaneous impulses are not able to find an outlet. The modern industrial system has divorced the business of production from the life of impulse, and the conditions under which a man’s work afforded the chief scope for the play of his creative impulse have gone past recall. Creative impulses issue as a rule in the production of things which may be enjoyed by an indefinite number of people. Impulses can be changed and diverted by circumstance, education and environment.
