...most powerful ally of hortatory ethics. The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in...conduct while in the plastic state. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of .virtue or of vice leaves...

...right when in discussing habit he said, "The hell to be endured hereafter of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in...heed to their conduct while in the plastic state." But alas, the young are not interested in their conduct from the point of view of the psychologist,...

...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,...

...over-eating, and lack of exercise — are habits formed In a person's youth. As William James has written: "Could the young but realize how soon they will become...heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. "1 Since, once formed, habits are extraordinarily difficult to change, the best hope for reducing unhealthy...

...mankind, schools and the means of education shall ever be encouraged.* William James in 1890 spoke of "the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way.* With our rising crime rate at ever-decreasing age levels and the degree of participation in our democracy...

...CONDITIONS IS A MOST POWERFUL ALLY OF ETHICS. THE HELL TO BE ENDURED HEREAFTER, OF WHICH THEOLOGY TELLS, IS NO WORSE THAN THE HELL WE MAKE FOR OURSELVES IN...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,...

...From James he accepted the challenge that this life is what we make it, and that we can make a hell for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way. Frost began to gain insight into his own psychic difficulties, his own bad inner weather, so that some...

...advice. He cites a proverb by way of warning. "The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in...habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way." He follows with platitudinous sayings. "We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be...

...MASSACRE AND GENOCIDE? Robert Paul Churchill The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in...habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way. —William James, The Principles of Psychology, 1890 Historians have persuaded us, not without reason,...

...no one has expressed this insight more clearly than William James in his Principles of Psychology: Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they could give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. . . . Every smallest stroke of virtue...