The Psychic Factors of CivilizationGinn, 1892 - 369 pagina's |
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Pagina iii
... less psychic to the more psychic , and not , as is popularly supposed , from the highest toward the lowest manifestations of this property . This great psychic paradox lies at the base of philosophy , and has ever been its funda- mental ...
... less psychic to the more psychic , and not , as is popularly supposed , from the highest toward the lowest manifestations of this property . This great psychic paradox lies at the base of philosophy , and has ever been its funda- mental ...
Pagina vii
... less popular character which I have made since the appearance of that work . Some chapters , however , there are which have had such a modern origin in my own mind that no such earlier expressions could be found . In addition to ...
... less popular character which I have made since the appearance of that work . Some chapters , however , there are which have had such a modern origin in my own mind that no such earlier expressions could be found . In addition to ...
Pagina 11
... less than the establishment upon a psycho- logical basis of a true science of sociology in all respects parallel and identical with the other less complex sciences of the hierarchy . It is to this branch of psychologic progress that I ...
... less than the establishment upon a psycho- logical basis of a true science of sociology in all respects parallel and identical with the other less complex sciences of the hierarchy . It is to this branch of psychologic progress that I ...
Pagina 12
... less definite notion of the object . - W . B. CARPENTER : Mental Physiology , pp . 177-78 . It has become a trite remark that the most difficult problems presenting themselves to the mind of man for solution have always been the first ...
... less definite notion of the object . - W . B. CARPENTER : Mental Physiology , pp . 177-78 . It has become a trite remark that the most difficult problems presenting themselves to the mind of man for solution have always been the first ...
Pagina 17
... less exclusively upon the notion produced by the object . If this latter course is pursued it is clear that the notion conveyed is due to the nature of the object , since it will differ with different objects . ( In other words it is ...
... less exclusively upon the notion produced by the object . If this latter course is pursued it is clear that the notion conveyed is due to the nature of the object , since it will differ with different objects . ( In other words it is ...
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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.