Human Traits and Their Social SignificanceConstable, 1920 - 467 pages Deals with the processes of human nature, from man's inborn impulses and needs to the most complete fulfillment of these. |
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... mechanical invention has been from the first its essential fea- ture , that even to - day our social life gravitates around the manu- facture and use of artificial instruments , that the inventions which strew the road of progress have ...
... mechanical invention has been from the first its essential fea- ture , that even to - day our social life gravitates around the manu- facture and use of artificial instruments , that the inventions which strew the road of progress have ...
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... mechanical drill is effective in the acquisition of simple mechanical habits . The most at- tentive appreciation of the proper things to be done in playing tennis or the piano will not by itself make one an expert in those activities ...
... mechanical drill is effective in the acquisition of simple mechanical habits . The most at- tentive appreciation of the proper things to be done in playing tennis or the piano will not by itself make one an expert in those activities ...
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... mechanical rules of thumb . Habits that have been drilled into an indi- vidual will appear only when the situation very closely approximates the one in which the drill has been performed . The cat that has learned to get out of a ...
... mechanical rules of thumb . Habits that have been drilled into an indi- vidual will appear only when the situation very closely approximates the one in which the drill has been performed . The cat that has learned to get out of a ...
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... mechanical habits are a hindrance in any save the most mechanical work . An alert and conscious method of learning , which means the development of habits as methods of control , will enable the individual to modify habits acquired in ...
... mechanical habits are a hindrance in any save the most mechanical work . An alert and conscious method of learning , which means the development of habits as methods of control , will enable the individual to modify habits acquired in ...
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... mechanical and arbitrary successes . But he will be missing half the data on which his decisions must be based if he does not have a live and sensitive appreciation of how men feel when placed in given situations . The placing of women ...
... mechanical and arbitrary successes . But he will be missing half the data on which his decisions must be based if he does not have a live and sensitive appreciation of how men feel when placed in given situations . The placing of women ...
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acquired action activity æsthetic animals Aristotle aroused attain beauty become behavior Bertrand Russell civilization color complete consciousness consequences customs depends desire divine Educational Psychology effective emotional ence environment Euripides evil example expression fact fear feeling fighting instinct Francis Bacon fulfillment genuine Gilbert Murray Graham Wallas gregarious habits happiness Helen Marot human ideal ideas imagination immediate impulses individual industrial inquiry instinct intellectual intelligence interests Intuitionalism Jane Harrison Karl Pearson language large number learned less live Lucretius man's means ment mental moral native nature objects one's opinion original past physical Plato pleasure pointed possible practical praise and blame precisely primitive Psychology reason reflection regarded religion religious experience response satisfaction scientific scientific method sense situation social society specific standards stimulation suggestion telegraphy tendencies things thinking tion traits types uncon vidual words
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Page 280 - That light whose smile kindles the universe, That beauty in which all things work and move, That benediction which the eclipsing curse Of birth can quench not, that sustaining Love Which, through the web of being blindly wove By man and beast and earth and air and sea, Burns bright or dim, as each are mirrors of The fire for which all thirst, now beams on me, Consuming the last clouds of cold mortality.
Page 182 - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts — for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments...
Page 437 - The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
Page 284 - ... the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins — all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul's habitation henceforth be safely built.
Page 302 - I say unto you that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance.
Page 95 - I looked upon the scene before me — upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain — upon the bleak walls — upon the vacant eye-like windows — upon a few rank sedges — and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees — with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium — the bitter lapse into every-day life — the hideous dropping of the veil.
Page 284 - All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Page 284 - For the living know that they shall die : But the dead know not any thing, Neither have they any more a reward ; For the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; Neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Page 288 - Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power ? Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
Page 283 - From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.