Man and Civilization ...Columbia University Press, 1926 - 117 páginas |
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... considerable array of specific data ( still rather scattered and fragmentary , it is true ) , that can help him to an understanding of contemporary life and its problems . The book has been written primarily for use in the Contem ...
... considerable array of specific data ( still rather scattered and fragmentary , it is true ) , that can help him to an understanding of contemporary life and its problems . The book has been written primarily for use in the Contem ...
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... considerably over nine billion nerve cells alone , besides numerous cells of other types . The human being , like all other complex organisms , is therefore really a great interacting society of living creatures in differing degrees of ...
... considerably over nine billion nerve cells alone , besides numerous cells of other types . The human being , like all other complex organisms , is therefore really a great interacting society of living creatures in differing degrees of ...
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... the biological stock . We are beginning to see that the chief biological difference between the germ plasm and the body is that the former in- cludes within itself the possibility of a considerable number of 8 MAN AND CIVILIZATION.
... the biological stock . We are beginning to see that the chief biological difference between the germ plasm and the body is that the former in- cludes within itself the possibility of a considerable number of 8 MAN AND CIVILIZATION.
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John Storck. cludes within itself the possibility of a considerable number of traits not actually displayed in the body . Thus with every new generation there is a new deal , and it is really in part up to us whether we wish to play the ...
John Storck. cludes within itself the possibility of a considerable number of traits not actually displayed in the body . Thus with every new generation there is a new deal , and it is really in part up to us whether we wish to play the ...
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... considerable degree depend on each other is shown by the fact that they seldom function sep- arately and alone . At the same time complete coordination is a never realized ideal , for although many coordinations not present at birth are ...
... considerable degree depend on each other is shown by the fact that they seldom function sep- arately and alone . At the same time complete coordination is a never realized ideal , for although many coordinations not present at birth are ...
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action activities appearance Aristotle become behavior biological birth blister steel body C. K. Ogden cells chapter child civilization complex connection conscious considerable course culture degree depend determining discoveries doubt effect elements emotional engine environment existing experience fairly feeling function germ cells germ plasm glands Graham Wallas habits human ideal ideas imagination important impulses individual industry instances interest invention knowledge L. L. Thurstone language large number lives machine manner materials means ment mental mind modern movements muscles natural facts nervous system never normal notions objects organism persons possible present problems Psychology reflex arcs regarded relations respect responses routines Samuel Butler seldom sexual Sigmund Freud situation social heritage specific steam steam engine stimulation symbols T. H. Morgan things thinking tion traits usually W. H. R. Rivers whole words
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Página 53 - 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 42 - 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 152 - I had gone to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon. I had entered the Green by the gate at the foot of Charlotte Street, and had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had gone as far as the herd's house, when the idea came into my mind that as steam was an elastic body it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication were made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel, it would rush into it, and might be there condensed without cooling the cylinder.
Página 108 - Active, persistent, and careful consideration of any belief or supposed form of knowledge in the light of the grounds that support it, and the further conclusions to which it tends, constitutes reflective thought.
Página 40 - In the progress of society, philosophy or speculation becomes, like every other employment, the principal or sole trade and occupation of a particular class of citizens. Like every other employment too, it is subdivided into a great number of different branches...
Página 43 - Some of us, indeed, are inclined to think that it is a kind of disease which the various races of man have to pass through— as children pass through measles or whooping cough; but if it is a disease, there is this serious consideration to be made, that while History tells us of many nations that have been attacked by it, of many that have succumbed to it, and of some that are still in the throes of it, we know of no single case in which a nation has fairly recovered from and passed through it to...
Página 48 - I teach you the superman. Man is something that is to be surpassed. What have ye done to surpass man? All beings hitherto have created something beyond themselves: and ye want to be the ebb of that great tide, and would rather go back to the beast than surpass man? What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock, a thing of shame. And just the same shall man be to the Superman: a...
Página 189 - To the broody hen the notion would probably seem monstrous that there should be a creature in the world to whom a nestful of eggs was not the utterly fascinating and precious and never-to-be-too-much-sat-upon object which it is to her. "Thus we may be sure that, however mysterious some animals' instincts may appear to us, our instincts will appear no less mysterious to them.
Página 104 - To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
Página 24 - Where the dark mist curtains the doorway The path to which is on the rainbow Where the zigzag lightning stands high on top, Where the he-rain stands high on top, Oh male divinity!