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Social Diseases - Page 56
1911
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 30

1886 - 982 pages
...which brings it about that, to reproduce the effect, a less amount of outward causality is required. The sounds of a violin improve by use in the hands of an able artist, because the fibers of the wood at last contract habits of vibration conformed to harmonic relations. This is what...
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... The Laws of Habit

William James - 1887 - 26 pages
...which brings it about that, to reproduce the effect, a less amount of outward causality is required. The sounds of a violin improve by use in the hands of an able artist, because the fibers of the wood at last contract habits of vibration conformed to harmonic relations. This is what...
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The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1

William James - 1890 - 720 pages
...which brings it about that, to reproduce the effect, a less amount of the outward cause is required. The sounds of a violin improve by use in the hands of an able artist, because the fibres of the wood at last contract habits of vibration conformed to harmonic relations. This is what gives such...
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The Principles of psychology v. 1, Volume 1

William James - 1890 - 716 pages
...which brings it about that, to reproduce the effect, a less amouut of the outward cause is required. The sounds of a violin improve by use in the hands of an able artist, because the fibres of the wood at last contract habits of vibration conformed to harmonic relations. This is what gives such...
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Mind and Body: A Monthly Journal Devoted to Physical Education, Volumes 1-5

1894 - 1278 pages
...habit which brings about that, to reproduce the effect, a less amount of the outward cause is required. The sounds of a violin improve by use in the hands of an able artist. The impressions of outer objects fashion for themselves in the nervous system also more and more appropriate...
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The Economy of Happiness

James MacKaye - 1906 - 578 pages
...which brings it about that to reproduce the effect, a less amount of the outward cause is required. The sounds of a violin improve by use in the hands of an able artist, because the fibres of the wood at last contract habits of vibration conformed to harmonic relations. This is what gives such...
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The Mind and Its Education

George Herbert Betts - 1906 - 302 pages
...which brings it about that, to reproduce the effect, a less amount of the outward cause is required. The sounds of a violin improve by use in the hands of an able artist, because the fibers of the wood at last contract habits of vibration conformed to harmonic relations. This is what...
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Principles of Education

Frederick Elmer Bolton - 1910 - 816 pages
...phenomenon of habituation. It costs less trouble to fold a paper when it has been folded already. . . . The sounds of a violin improve by use in the hands of an able artist, because the fibres of the wood at last contract habits of vibration conformed to harmonic relations." ' Analogy of the Phonograph....
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Principles of Character Making

Arthur Holmes - 1913 - 352 pages
...which brings it about that, to reproduce the effect, a less amount of the outward cause is required. The sounds of a violin improve by use in the hands of an able artist, because the fibres of the wood at last contract habits of vibration conformed to harmonic relations. This is what gives such...
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Read's Salesmanship

Harlan Eugene Read - 1915 - 304 pages
...which brings it about that to reproduce the effect, a less amount of the outward cause is required. The sounds of a violin improve by use in the hands of an able artist, because the fibres of the wood at last contract habits of vibration conformed to harmonic relations. This is what gives such...
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