Human Traits and Their Social SignificanceArbor Press, Incorporated, 1919 |
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... hand . But chiefly he is distinguished by his plastic brain , upon which depends his capacity to perform the complex mental activities - from administering a railroad to solving problems in calculus- which constitute man's outstanding ...
... hand . But chiefly he is distinguished by his plastic brain , upon which depends his capacity to perform the complex mental activities - from administering a railroad to solving problems in calculus- which constitute man's outstanding ...
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... hand from a hot stove or the jerking of the knee when touched in a particular spot to startlingly involved trains of action to be found in the behavior of certain of the lower animals . Bergson cites the case of a species of wasp which ...
... hand from a hot stove or the jerking of the knee when touched in a particular spot to startlingly involved trains of action to be found in the behavior of certain of the lower animals . Bergson cites the case of a species of wasp which ...
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... hand in the flame . Later his tendency to take all the food within reach may be checked by the looks of scorn which follow that manifestation of man's original greed , or the punishment and privation which are correlated with it ...
... hand in the flame . Later his tendency to take all the food within reach may be checked by the looks of scorn which follow that manifestation of man's original greed , or the punishment and privation which are correlated with it ...
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... hands , and legs , has to experiment in making varied combinations of their reactions , achieves a control that is flexible and varied . " The more complex the environment is in which the indi- vidual must live , the longer is the ...
... hands , and legs , has to experiment in making varied combinations of their reactions , achieves a control that is flexible and varied . " The more complex the environment is in which the indi- vidual must live , the longer is the ...
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... hand , which with its four fingers and a thumb , as contrasted with the monkey's five fingers , enables him to pick up objects . The second is his capacity for reflection , presently to be dis- cussed , which enables him to foresee the ...
... hand , which with its four fingers and a thumb , as contrasted with the monkey's five fingers , enables him to pick up objects . The second is his capacity for reflection , presently to be dis- cussed , which enables him to foresee the ...
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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.