The Borzoi College ReaderThis highly regarded, thematic reader for freshman composition offers students an introduction to issues in the arts and sciences. It includes a good balance of classic and contemporary selections from mixed genres and provides a wide range of viewpoints and voices. The readings are supported by introductions to each theme and individual headnotes. |
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Page 28
... mind off as something apart to be studied by itself . But no such mind , exempt from bodily processes , animal impulses , savage traditions , infantile impressions , conventional reactions , and tra- ditional knowledge , ever existed ...
... mind off as something apart to be studied by itself . But no such mind , exempt from bodily processes , animal impulses , savage traditions , infantile impressions , conventional reactions , and tra- ditional knowledge , ever existed ...
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... mind is really a higher form of the animal mind , his morality a specialized form of herd instinct , then where in the course of evolution did he lose the realism of a clever animal and fall prey to subjective fears ? And why should he ...
... mind is really a higher form of the animal mind , his morality a specialized form of herd instinct , then where in the course of evolution did he lose the realism of a clever animal and fall prey to subjective fears ? And why should he ...
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... mind in the light of other ideas , including some that they have fashioned for themselves from their own experience . The mind that owns few ideas is apt to be crabbed and narrow , ungenerous and defensive in its judgments . " Nothing ...
... mind in the light of other ideas , including some that they have fashioned for themselves from their own experience . The mind that owns few ideas is apt to be crabbed and narrow , ungenerous and defensive in its judgments . " Nothing ...
Contents
On Writing | 1 |
Anaïs Nin from The Personal Life Deeply Lived | 12 |
Thinking about Thinking | 19 |
Copyright | |
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