...leaves forever its unimaginable touch on the brain, that it is engraved there as with a steel stylus, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. This simple incontestable truth does not seem to have seriously possessed many of our educational leaders,...

...OUR CHARACTERS IN THE WRONG WAY. 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. EVERY SMALLEST STROKE OF VIRTUE OR OF VICE LEAVES ITS NEVER SO LITTLE SCAR. THE DRUNKEN RIP VAN WINKLE,...

...world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way." He follows with platitudinous sayings. "We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and...virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar." He reminds readers of the omniscient eye that follows their actions: "a kind Heaven may not count [every...

...Moral Responsibility (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986). 3 "We are spinning our fates, good and evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke...virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. . . . [We] may not count it; but it is being counted none the less. Down among . . . [our] nerve cells...

...realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more attention here to their conduct while in the plastic state. We are...to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue, or vice leaves its never-so-little scar. The drunken Rip Van Winkle, in Jefferson's play, excuses himself...

...nature expresses a profound truth: Could the young but realizc how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their...Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its neverso-little scar. The drunken Rip Van Winkle, in Joseph Jefferson's play, excuses himself for every...

...personality was a compilation of habits: "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."19 If human personality was, in large part, a bundle of socialized patterns, then the key to...

...Chapters 5, 6, and 8) has already confirmed what William James surmised a long time ago when he wrote: "We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. . . . The drunken Rip Van Winkle, in Jefferson's play, excuses himself for every fresh dereliction...

...our characters in the wrong way. Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their...never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or ol vice leaves its neverso-little scar. The drunken Rip Van Winkle, in Jefferson's play, excuses himself...

...development of good character. "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," said philosopher and psychologist William James.2 Since habits and attitudes are most easily shaped...