Psychology and Higher LifeCrane, 1905 - 240 pages |
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acquired activity attention autosuggestion average baby talk become better body brain called Central Nervous System CHAPTER character child condition conduct consciousness course Culture dreams early Education efferent nerves effort emotion experience Experimental Psychology expression fact feeling give given habit hear higher human ideal ideas imagination imitation instance interest Jean Valjean kind Know thyself language later logical manner matter mature means memory ment mental merely method mind movements nature nerve nerve-cells nervous system object occipital lobe olfactory nerves one's organism Outline of Psychology peculiar perception period person physical possible practice question reference result retina rience Scholasticism seems sense SIMPLE INVESTIGATIONS simply social sensitiveness Socrates soul spinal cord student suggestion things thought tion Titchener touch trained true uncon various volition words young youth
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Page 177 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Page 54 - I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
Page 149 - I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.
Page 155 - It does not even know their names; it only speaks of them as old So-and-So's boys. Nobody likes them; the great, busy world doesn't know they are here.
Page 155 - It's the interval that kills, my son. The work gives you an appetite for your meals; it lends solidity to your slumbers; it gives you a perfect and grateful appreciation of a holiday. There are young men who do not work, but the world is not proud of them.
Page 60 - And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Page 192 - THESE consist of shyness, shame, and modesty; the essential element in all being self-attention. Many reasons can be assigned for believing that originally self-attention directed to personal appearance, in relation to the opinion of others, was the exciting cause; the same effect being subsequently produced, through the force of association, by self-attention in relation to moral conduct.
Page 96 - All men are mortal ( major premise ) . Socrates is a man (minor premise). Therefore, Socrates is mortal (conclusion).
Page 156 - Nobody likes them; the great, busy world doesn't know that they are there. So find out what you want to be and do, and take off your coat and make a dust in the world. The busier you are the less harm you will be apt to get into, the sweeter will be your sleep, the brighter and happier your holidays, and the better satisfied will the world be with you.
Page 175 - Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps wait. Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate. If sleeping, wake; if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate...