The Psychic Factors of CivilizationGinn, 1892 - 369 pagina's |
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Pagina v
... higher , and on the other , to lay the foundations deeper . In the first of these directions I have not only been impelled by my own inward sense , but I have been quite strongly urged by others who thought it was my duty to make a ...
... higher , and on the other , to lay the foundations deeper . In the first of these directions I have not only been impelled by my own inward sense , but I have been quite strongly urged by others who thought it was my duty to make a ...
Pagina xi
... Higher cravings . - Various - Desire a form of pain . Love is pain . - Desire always seeks satisfaction . —Satisfaction is termination . Corollaries . Desires the mainsprings of all action . — They are the mind forces.— Physics vs ...
... Higher cravings . - Various - Desire a form of pain . Love is pain . - Desire always seeks satisfaction . —Satisfaction is termination . Corollaries . Desires the mainsprings of all action . — They are the mind forces.— Physics vs ...
Pagina xii
... higher spiritual needs . Problem of greatest , happiness . - - ― 71 CHAPTER XIII . FEELING , FUNCTION , AND ACTION . - - Feeling . Function . Biological utility . — Perfection as an end . Evolution as an end . - Production of organic ...
... higher spiritual needs . Problem of greatest , happiness . - - ― 71 CHAPTER XIII . FEELING , FUNCTION , AND ACTION . - - Feeling . Function . Biological utility . — Perfection as an end . Evolution as an end . - Production of organic ...
Pagina xvi
... Higher requirements of land animals . - Development of the directive faculty . - New applica- tions of it by man . — Ingenuity . — Artificial devices . — Origin of the invent ive faculty . — Animal ingenuity . — Contrivances of plants ...
... Higher requirements of land animals . - Development of the directive faculty . - New applica- tions of it by man . — Ingenuity . — Artificial devices . — Origin of the invent ive faculty . — Animal ingenuity . — Contrivances of plants ...
Pagina 21
... higher consciousness is so quickly lost through practically consentaneous differentiation that all traces of it seem wholly extinguished . Pure subjectivity must be pronounced the most evanescent of all characters in developed minds and ...
... higher consciousness is so quickly lost through practically consentaneous differentiation that all traces of it seem wholly extinguished . Pure subjectivity must be pronounced the most evanescent of all characters in developed minds and ...
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action activity adapted afferent nerve animal attained AUGUSTE COMTE become biologic brain called cause Chap CHAPTER chiefly Cited on page Cited on pages civilization competition conception condition consciousness constitutes coöperation direction distinct Dynamic Sociology economics edition effect egoistic emotional essentially ethics evil evolution existence fact feeling female function genius happiness Herbert Spencer higher human important increase individual intellect intelligence intuitive inventive faculty JOSEPH LE CONTE labor laissez faire laissez passer latter less means ment mental method mind moral natural selection nature necessary nerve object operations organism pain perceived perception phenomena philosophy physical pleasure plutocracy possess present primary principle produce progress psychic forces Publius Syrus purely rational reason relations Schopenhauer scientific secure sensation sense sentient simply social forces Social Statics society Sociocracy soul stage standpoint subjective psychology supposed things tion true truth wholly
Populaire passages
Pagina 44 - THE night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.
Pagina 335 - The Principles of Mental Physiology. With their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the Mind, and the Study of its Morbid Conditions.
Pagina 36 - In other words, those races of beings only can have survived in which, on the average, agreeable or desired feelings went along with activities conducive to the maintenance of life, while disagreeable and habitually-avoided feelings went along with activities directly or indirectly destructive of life; and there must ever have been, other thing!
Pagina 242 - The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, one with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.
Pagina 242 - It may be fairly pronounced therefore, that, considering the present average state of the earth, the means of subsistence, under circumstances the most favourable to human industry, could not possibly be made to increase faster than in an arithmetical ratio.
Pagina 282 - Priestley was the first (unless it was Beccaria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth : — That the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation
Pagina 331 - But the strongest of all the arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct is that when it does interfere the odds are that it interferes wrongly and in the wrong place.
Pagina 331 - But neither one person, nor any number of persons, is warranted in saying to another human creature of ripe years, that he shall not do with his life for his own benefit what he chooses to do with it.
Pagina 163 - And, after all what is a lie ? 'Tis but The truth in masquerade, and I defy Historians, heroes, lawyers, priests, to put A fact without some leaven of a lie. The very shadow of true truth would shut Up annals, revelations, poesy, And prophecy — except it should be dated Some years before the incidents related.
Pagina 331 - Even despotism does not produce its worst effects so long as individuality exists under it; and whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.