The Origin and Growth of the Moral Instinct, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1898 |
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action ancient ANDREW LANG anger animal arises arteries authority average beauty become blood blood-vessels bodily body brain century chapter character child colour compurgation consciousness Crown 8vo customs degree E. A. FREEMAN Edition effect emotions ethical experience external eyes fear ganglia GERALD LASCELLES give grow growth hatching heart heat HISTORY house-father idea ideal Illus Illustrations individual injury justice less LL.D mammæ mammals man's marsupial Max Müller mind moral instinct mother motives murder muscles nature nerves never perihestic person Plates pleasure Portrait quasi-moral R. A. PROCTOR race reason reflex action responsibility retaliation right conduct Roman Roman law says seen self-respect sensations sense of duty society sort stimulus suffer sympathetic nerves sympathetic system sympathy tells temperature things tion trations true truly moral truth usage utterly vascular tone vaso-motor vols warm warm-blooded wergild wholly woman
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