Human Conduct: A Textbook in General Philosophy and Applied Psychology for Students in High Schools, Academies, Junior Colleges, and for the General Reader |
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... constructive . Interest as conditions of constructive tact . Now in this effort one must observe two conditions set by the laws of apperception . The first is to secure interest . Until one has got this it is useless to argue . What one ...
... constructive . Interest as conditions of constructive tact . Now in this effort one must observe two conditions set by the laws of apperception . The first is to secure interest . Until one has got this it is useless to argue . What one ...
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... constructive work to induce his hearer to think and act in a certain way . Evidently his only solution can be to get the master of the hunt , going on from inside the victim's skull , to turn his search spontaneously in our tactful ...
... constructive work to induce his hearer to think and act in a certain way . Evidently his only solution can be to get the master of the hunt , going on from inside the victim's skull , to turn his search spontaneously in our tactful ...
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... constructive . Indeed this is the only way in which constructive work can be done , for bricks that are merely thrown aimlessly at a wall will most likely not settle into their proper places , but fall as broken fragments upon the ...
... constructive . Indeed this is the only way in which constructive work can be done , for bricks that are merely thrown aimlessly at a wall will most likely not settle into their proper places , but fall as broken fragments upon the ...
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... constructive work , which still conforms to the psychology of apperception , can be done , but it requires tact and serious thought . The teacher , the preacher , the debater , the agent , who conforms to these two laws of apperception ...
... constructive work , which still conforms to the psychology of apperception , can be done , but it requires tact and serious thought . The teacher , the preacher , the debater , the agent , who conforms to these two laws of apperception ...
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... constructive mental activity . And what is true of memory is true of constructive mental ac- tivity imagination and reasoning . This , too , consists of concrete imagery . Suppose you are trying to decide which is the better road to ...
... constructive mental activity . And what is true of memory is true of constructive mental ac- tivity imagination and reasoning . This , too , consists of concrete imagery . Suppose you are trying to decide which is the better road to ...
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Page 418 - Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Page 375 - The mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel, And the former called the latter 'Little Prig; Bun replied, 'You are doubtless very big; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace To occupy my place. If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry. I'll not deny you make A very pretty squirrel track; Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you...
Page 330 - I live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my spirit too ; For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.
Page 353 - Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world. Who made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox?
Page 257 - The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.
Page 49 - And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews : to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law ; To them that are without law...
Page 416 - There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Page 74 - New occasions teach new duties : Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea. Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Page 361 - The Situation that has not its Duty, its Ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable Actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy Ideal: work it out therefrom; and working, believe, live, be free.
Page 74 - Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime ; — Was the Mayflower launched by cowards, steered by men behind their time ? Turn those tracks toward Past or Future, that make Plymouth Rock sublime...