 | 1916 - 986 pages
...through neglect. 'The loss of these tastes,' he says, ' is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the...character by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.' The intellect of man, in itself, is never supreme or sufficient. Feeling or instinct is half of knowledge.... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 588 pages
...been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature. My books have sold largely in England, have been translated into many languages, and passed through... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 570 pages
...been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature. My books have sold largely in England, have been translated into many languages, and passed through... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 420 pages
...been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature. My books have sold largely in England, have been translated into many languages, and passed through... | |
 | 1887 - 604 pages
...been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.* Or again, the following extract from a letter, June 17, 1868, to Sir JD Hooker : I am glad you were... | |
 | 1888 - 758 pages
...been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." (I., 81, 82). Mr. Darwin uses the right word; part of his brain had become "atrophied;" but he is mistaken... | |
 | William Parker Cutler - 1888 - 1034 pages
...been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature. My books have sold largely in England, have been translated into many languages, and passed through... | |
 | 1888 - 1074 pages
...music at least once every week. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." Surely words like these, deliberately written by a man of such great, and at the same time, such thoroughly... | |
 | 1888 - 712 pages
...been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." (I., Si, 82). Mr. Darwin uses the right word; part of his brain had become "atrophied;" but he is mistaken... | |
 | Robert Bruce (Congregational Minister.) - 1888 - 104 pages
...taste for pictures and music. . . . The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness and may possibly be injurious to the intellect and more probably to the...character by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." Our mission is to " the world " for which the Saviour died, not merely to "the world of culture." In... | |
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... if I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week ; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes... 
