Human Traits and Their Social SignificanceArbor Press, Incorporated, 1919 |
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... already out of sight . A century has elapsed since the invention of the steam engine , and we are only just beginning to feel the depths of the shock it gave us . But the revolution has it effected in industry has nevertheless upset ...
... already out of sight . A century has elapsed since the invention of the steam engine , and we are only just beginning to feel the depths of the shock it gave us . But the revolution has it effected in industry has nevertheless upset ...
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... already pointed out , while men are born with an even wider variety of tendencies to act than animals , these are much more plastic and modifiable , more susceptible of training , and much more in need of it than those of the sub ...
... already pointed out , while men are born with an even wider variety of tendencies to act than animals , these are much more plastic and modifiable , more susceptible of training , and much more in need of it than those of the sub ...
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... already travelled , and the action resulting becomes as direct and automatic as if it were an original reflex action.3 The Acquisition of New Modes of Response Expressed in less technical language this means simply that human beings can ...
... already travelled , and the action resulting becomes as direct and automatic as if it were an original reflex action.3 The Acquisition of New Modes of Response Expressed in less technical language this means simply that human beings can ...
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... already dis- cussed , whereby animals and humans try every possible instinctive response to a situation until one brings satisfaction and is retained as a habitual reaction when that situation recurs . The other is a delay in response ...
... already dis- cussed , whereby animals and humans try every possible instinctive response to a situation until one brings satisfaction and is retained as a habitual reaction when that situation recurs . The other is a delay in response ...
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... already been traversed . That the age of the individual should make a vast difference in the capacity to acquire new habits and to modify old ones is obvious from the physiology of habit already described . When the brain and nervous ...
... already been traversed . That the age of the individual should make a vast difference in the capacity to acquire new habits and to modify old ones is obvious from the physiology of habit already described . When the brain and nervous ...
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Página 163 - 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...
Página 10 - 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.
Página 10 - ... 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.
Página 29 - And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.
Página 80 - A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox? Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw? Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow? Whose breath blew out the light within this brain?
Página 49 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me ? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
Página 11 - 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.
Página 13 - 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.
Página 14 - They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
Página 33 - Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone.