Human Traits and Their Social SignificanceArbor Press, Incorporated, 1919 |
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... fixed and constant as the laws that govern the movements of the stars , man has been much less conscious and deliberate , and more frequently moved by passion and ignorance than by reason Human Traits and Their Social Significance ...
... fixed and constant as the laws that govern the movements of the stars , man has been much less conscious and deliberate , and more frequently moved by passion and ignorance than by reason Human Traits and Their Social Significance ...
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... fixed tendencies to respond in specific ways to specific stimuli . These inborn or congenital tendencies are generally known as reflexes or instincts.3 1 The thinking process is discussed in detail in Chapters III and XV . 2 With ...
... fixed tendencies to respond in specific ways to specific stimuli . These inborn or congenital tendencies are generally known as reflexes or instincts.3 1 The thinking process is discussed in detail in Chapters III and XV . 2 With ...
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... fixed . The brain and the nervous system remain fairly plastic up to that time , and if inquiry and learning have themselves become habitual , plasticity may last even longer . In the cases of the greatest intellects , of a Darwin , or ...
... fixed . The brain and the nervous system remain fairly plastic up to that time , and if inquiry and learning have themselves become habitual , plasticity may last even longer . In the cases of the greatest intellects , of a Darwin , or ...
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... fixed native tendencies to act . But civilization could never have developed if in man new ways could not be acquired to meet new situations , and if these new ways could not be retained and made habitual in the individual and the race ...
... fixed native tendencies to act . But civilization could never have developed if in man new ways could not be acquired to meet new situations , and if these new ways could not be retained and made habitual in the individual and the race ...
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... fixed . One reason why animals cannot be taught so wide a variety of complex habits as can the human being is that they cannot keep their attention fixed on succes- sive repetitions , and that in learning they literally do not know what ...
... fixed . One reason why animals cannot be taught so wide a variety of complex habits as can the human being is that they cannot keep their attention fixed on succes- sive repetitions , and that in learning they literally do not know what ...
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acquired action activity already animals appear associated attain beauty become belief called causes certain civilization common complete consequences continually customs depends desire determined developed divine effective emotional environment example experience expression fact fear feeling fixed follow give given habits hand happiness human ideal ideas imagination immediate important impulses individual industrial instance instinct interests kind language learned less live man's matter means mental merely methods mind moral nature noted objects observation once one's opinion original past performed physical play pointed possession possible practical precisely present primitive problem produce reason reflection regarded relations religion religious response satisfaction scientific seems sense significant situation social society specific standards suggestion things thinking thought tion traits types universe various whole
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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.