Man and Civilization: An Inquiry Into the Bases of Contemporary LifeHarcourt, Brace, 1927 - 449 páginas |
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Página 54
... discussion , the following definition of civilization is presented : Civiliza- tion is a form of culture characterized by a sedentary popu- lation grouped around the state as the central institution , and having a symbolic form of ...
... discussion , the following definition of civilization is presented : Civiliza- tion is a form of culture characterized by a sedentary popu- lation grouped around the state as the central institution , and having a symbolic form of ...
Página 55
... discuss very briefly a few of the great institutions characteristic of our culture . Every culture tends to focus at a relatively small number of points a great part of its energies , and it is perhaps by understanding of these cultural ...
... discuss very briefly a few of the great institutions characteristic of our culture . Every culture tends to focus at a relatively small number of points a great part of its energies , and it is perhaps by understanding of these cultural ...
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... discussion ) , namely , the altered connotations attached to knowledge as a result of the wide dissemination of great masses of printed matter . Knowledge is more and more conceived of in terms of book acquaintanceship with things , and ...
... discussion ) , namely , the altered connotations attached to knowledge as a result of the wide dissemination of great masses of printed matter . Knowledge is more and more conceived of in terms of book acquaintanceship with things , and ...
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... discussion , but it seems to turn attention in the right directions . The chief value of a culture is not to be found in its complexity , its extent , or even its power , but rather in its ability to provide its members with facilities ...
... discussion , but it seems to turn attention in the right directions . The chief value of a culture is not to be found in its complexity , its extent , or even its power , but rather in its ability to provide its members with facilities ...
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... discussion of the topic being reserved for the following chapter . We have now provided a general conspectus of the ground to be covered , and may therefore turn to the discussion of some of the more important early achievements of ...
... discussion of the topic being reserved for the following chapter . We have now provided a general conspectus of the ground to be covered , and may therefore turn to the discussion of some of the more important early achievements of ...
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Man and Civilization: An Inquiry Into the Bases of Contemporary Life John Storck Vista completa - 1927 |
Man and Civilization: An Inquiry Into the Bases of Contemporary Life John Storck Vista completa - 1927 |
Términos y frases comunes
action activities Aristotle artist attitudes become behavior biological body C. K. Ogden cell changes child complex connection consciousness contemporary coöperative course culture pattern depend desire determining economic Edward Carpenter effects emotional environment esthetic existing experience F. M. Cornford fact feeling functions germ germ cells germ plasm glands Graham Wallas habits Havelock Ellis human ideal ideas imagination important individual industrial instances institutions interests invention knowledge labor language living machine marriage materials matter means ment mental mind modern Morton Prince nature necessary nervous nomic notions objects organism persons possible present problem processes production Psychology reflex arcs regarded relations religion religious respect responses scientific scientist sexual situation social society T. H. Morgan things thinking thought tion traits usually W. H. R. Rivers words
Pasajes populares
Página 291 - ... every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it.
Página 68 - It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are 135 living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Página 331 - For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
Página 368 - I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour! That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love; — then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.
Página 331 - Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
Página 435 - Render therefore to all their dues : tribute to whom tribute is due ; custom to whom custom ; fear to whom fear ; honour to whom honour.
Página 291 - It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our , dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity, but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages.
Página 405 - The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examination ; that in the most successful instances not a tenth of the suggestions, the hopes, the wishes, the preliminary conclusions have been realized.
Página 53 - Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one...
Página 355 - Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them...