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... action of automatic power , there arise delay , selection , and the various forms of volitional con- sciousness ... action , and these are projected into the future , as capable of reali- sation and as desirable . Thought and action ...
... action of automatic power , there arise delay , selection , and the various forms of volitional con- sciousness ... action , and these are projected into the future , as capable of reali- sation and as desirable . Thought and action ...
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... action ; but leaving off sucking when the hunger is relieved is a purely selec- tive activity . The graduation of the force of the act before cessation is also selective . It is difficult to determine exactly where in sucking the reflex ...
... action ; but leaving off sucking when the hunger is relieved is a purely selec- tive activity . The graduation of the force of the act before cessation is also selective . It is difficult to determine exactly where in sucking the reflex ...
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... action are illustrated in the discipline of the whip . If the punishment be inflicted so long as a wrong move- ment goes on , and ceases when that movement ceases , an esta- blished link is forged between a certain action and pleasure ...
... action are illustrated in the discipline of the whip . If the punishment be inflicted so long as a wrong move- ment goes on , and ceases when that movement ceases , an esta- blished link is forged between a certain action and pleasure ...
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... action become only stepping - stones to others . The suggestion of an end suggests the various means for accomplishing the same ; to these , as primary ends , volition addresses itself , but the prin- cipal or ultimate end is not lost ...
... action become only stepping - stones to others . The suggestion of an end suggests the various means for accomplishing the same ; to these , as primary ends , volition addresses itself , but the prin- cipal or ultimate end is not lost ...
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... action to avoid those pains- Probably harsh , shrill , sharp tones of the human voice are them- selves painful , apart from any associated pain . So also the effect is enhanced by threatening looks . If the contrary effects are dis ...
... action to avoid those pains- Probably harsh , shrill , sharp tones of the human voice are them- selves painful , apart from any associated pain . So also the effect is enhanced by threatening looks . If the contrary effects are dis ...
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Page 262 - Secondly, the other fountain, from which experience furnisheth the understanding with ideas, is the perception of the operations of our own mind within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has got; which operations, when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas, which could not be had from things without...
Page 313 - REMEMBER now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them...
Page 351 - A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Page 261 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Page 400 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er, or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean, — This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with nature's charms, and see her stores unrolled.
Page 445 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things. There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Page 262 - ... as we do from bodies affecting our senses. This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself; and though it be not sense as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called
Page 313 - Also when they shall be afraid of that -which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets...