If we can only strike a blow with such power as to seize possession of a man's entire thoughts and voluntary dispositions for a certain length of time, we may succeed in launching him in a new career, and in keeping him in that course, until there be... Unthinkables - Página 114por Frederic Henry Balfour - 1897 - 160 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Alexander Bain - 1859 - 702 páginas
...succeed in launching him in a new career, aud in keeping him in that course, until there be time for habits to commence, and until a force is arrayed in favour of the present state of things, equal to cope with the tendencies and growths of the former life. Such changes occasionally happen,... | |
| Alexander Bain - 1865 - 660 páginas
...for habits to commence, and until a force is arrayed in favour of the present state of things, equal to cope with the tendencies and growth of the former...the volitions of a day against the bent of years. 16. We may next illustrate the class of habits related to the more purely volitional impulses of our... | |
| Alexander Bain - 1875 - 710 páginas
...in a new career, and in keeping him in that course, until there be time for habits to commence, arid until a force is arrayed in favour of the present state of tilings, able to cope with the tendencies and growth of the former life. Such changes occasionally... | |
| Alexander Bain - 1880 - 668 páginas
...succeed in launching him in a new career, and in keeping him in that course, until there be time for habits to commence, and until a force is arrayed in...the volitions of a day against the bent of years. 17. We may next illustrate the class of habits related to the more purely volitional impulses of our... | |
| James Mark Baldwin, James McKeen Cattell, Howard Crosby Warren, John Broadus Watson, Herbert Sidney Langfeld, Carroll Cornelius Pratt, Theodore Mead Newcomb - 1899 - 720 páginas
...309!!. See also Luther Gulick : Age, Sex and Conversion, Association Outlook, Dec., 1897. conduct. * * * Such changes occasionally happen, but not without...struggles, which prove how hard it is to set up the volition of a day against the bent of years."1 Here all sudden conversions are lumped together as though... | |
| George Barton Cutten - 1908 - 532 páginas
...that supplies a new and energetic motive to the will, thereby initiating a new line of conduct. . . . Such changes occasionally happen, but not without...struggles, which prove how hard it is to set up the volition of a day against the bent of years."1 " Conversion is suddenly forsaking the lower for the... | |
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