Man and Civilization: An Inquiry Into the Bases of Contemporary LifeHarcourt, Brace, 1927 - 449 páginas |
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... things The romantic story of evolution has many plots , but perhaps the most interesting of them all tells of the unbroken web of life . All living things without exception are bound by living ties to the past , first of their own kind ...
... things The romantic story of evolution has many plots , but perhaps the most interesting of them all tells of the unbroken web of life . All living things without exception are bound by living ties to the past , first of their own kind ...
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... things as nervous indigestion , where the ability of the stomach and intestines to digest food and excrete waste is affected by changes in the nervous system brought about by psychological maladjustments . An organic need may be defined ...
... things as nervous indigestion , where the ability of the stomach and intestines to digest food and excrete waste is affected by changes in the nervous system brought about by psychological maladjustments . An organic need may be defined ...
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... things which are merely desired , since it is obvious that a thing may be desired ( or wanted ) although it is neither an organic nor a derivative need , as these terms have been defined above . Thus a little child may beg for more ...
... things which are merely desired , since it is obvious that a thing may be desired ( or wanted ) although it is neither an organic nor a derivative need , as these terms have been defined above . Thus a little child may beg for more ...
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... things , disposed in certain fairly fixed relations to each other and arranged in a great diversity of patterns . But little study and reflection are required to demonstrate that these social relations and pat- terns have had a history ...
... things , disposed in certain fairly fixed relations to each other and arranged in a great diversity of patterns . But little study and reflection are required to demonstrate that these social relations and pat- terns have had a history ...
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... thing we list towards it , as though to put ourselves in an easier position to grasp it . Thinking is itself a mode of ... things , but two phases of a single process . What the organism does changes the forces which are acting upon it ...
... thing we list towards it , as though to put ourselves in an easier position to grasp it . Thinking is itself a mode of ... things , but two phases of a single process . What the organism does changes the forces which are acting upon it ...
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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...