The Foundations of personality

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Little, Brown, and Company, 1921 - Počet stran: 406
 

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Strana 5 - ... the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process...
Strana 26 - We may look upon each individual as something not wholly detached from its parent source, — as a wave that has been lifted and shaped by normal conditions in an unknown, illimitable ocean. There is decidedly a solidarity as well as a separateness in all human, and probably in all lives whatsoever ; and this consideration goes far, as I think, to establish an opinion that the constitution of the living Universe is a pure theism, and that its form of activity is what may be described as co-operative.
Strana 26 - It points to the conclusion that all life is single in its essence, but various, ever varying, and inter-active in its manifestations, and that men and all other living animals are active workers and sharers in a vastly more extended system of cosmic action than any of ourselves, much less of them, can possibly comprehend. It also suggests that they may contribute, more or less unconsciously, to the manifestation of a far higher life than our own, somewhat as — I do not propose to push the metaphor...
Strana 253 - And pretty stuff they made of it. As for their Eadical allies, we may add from the same source, as their particular object, " Sufficeth then, the good old plan, That they may take who have the power, And they may keep who can.
Strana 324 - Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine.
Strana 10 - Every , individual, from the time he is born until the time he dies, is under the influence of these many different kinds of elements, — some of them having to do with the development of the bones and teeth, some with the development of the body and nervous system, some with the development of the mind, etc.
Strana 24 - Give me neither poverty nor riches " was the prayer of Agur, and with good reason. If there is any improvement in modern theology, it is in getting out of the region of pure abstractions and taking these every-day working forces into account.
Strana 63 - ... conditions, but I believe that in moderation smoking does no harm and is an innocent pleasure. Some of the pathological motor habits, such as the tics, often have a curious background. The most common tics are snuffing, blinking, shaking of the head, facial contortions of one kind or another. These arise usually under exciting conditions or in the excitable, sometimes in the acutely self-conscious. Frequently they represent a motor outlet for this excitement; they are the motor analogues of crying,...
Strana 23 - ... development of speech and writing have brought into every man's career the mental life and character of all his own ancestors and the ancestors of every other man. A child is not born merely to a father and a mother. He is born to a group, fiercely and definitely prejudiced in custom, belief and ideal, with ways of doing, feeling and thinking which it seeks to impose on each of its new members. Family, tribe, race and nation all demand of each accession that he accept their ideals, habits and...
Strana 380 - How happy I could be with either, were 'tother dear charmer away . . . He found himself smiling down on his secretary's neatly pinnedup head.

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