Man and Civilization: An Inquiry Into the Bases of Contemporary LifeHarcourt, Brace, 1927 - 449 páginas |
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... important , for it is then that children form those drives towards mastery or sub- mission , those curiosities , apathies , interests , and aversions , those habits of cleanliness , carefulness , and attention ( or their opposites ) ...
... important , for it is then that children form those drives towards mastery or sub- mission , those curiosities , apathies , interests , and aversions , those habits of cleanliness , carefulness , and attention ( or their opposites ) ...
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... importance in determining how he acts . He differs structurally from all other animals in his upright posture , in the possession of extremely flexible hands ( his first and most important tools ) , of a delicate apparatus for the ...
... importance in determining how he acts . He differs structurally from all other animals in his upright posture , in the possession of extremely flexible hands ( his first and most important tools ) , of a delicate apparatus for the ...
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... important , the manner in which one man differs from another will help to determine loyalties and aversions , successes and failures , happiness and misery . In any culture , an enormous gulf separates the few best from the general ...
... important , the manner in which one man differs from another will help to determine loyalties and aversions , successes and failures , happiness and misery . In any culture , an enormous gulf separates the few best from the general ...
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... importance . With much the same apparatus many different things can be done , depending on the way men have learned to use it . Techniques are , therefore , more important than tools . An ax , for example , is no tool to a man who does ...
... importance . With much the same apparatus many different things can be done , depending on the way men have learned to use it . Techniques are , therefore , more important than tools . An ax , for example , is no tool to a man who does ...
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... important aspects of a culture are psy- chological , the material embodiments of culture traits are by no means insignificant for an understanding of social proc- esses . In a living culture tools generate and extend tech- niques . In ...
... important aspects of a culture are psy- chological , the material embodiments of culture traits are by no means insignificant for an understanding of social proc- esses . In a living culture tools generate and extend tech- niques . In ...
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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 |
Man and Civilization: An Inquiry Into the Bases of Contemporary Life John Storck Vista completa - 1927 |
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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...