Human Nature and the Social OrderScribner, 1922 - 460 Seiten |
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action activity anger animal appears aspect become behavior cause chapter character CHARLES HORTON COOLEY child common congenial connection conscience course definite degeneracy effect egotism emotion environment Evolutionary Psychology existence experience expression fact feeling freedom function germ-plasm give Goethe growth habit Harper's Magazine hereditary heredity higher hostile human nature ideal imagination imitation impression impulses individual influence instance instinct intercourse J. A. Symonds judgment kind lack less live look looking-glass matter means ment mental Middlemarch mind moral observation one's organization Origin of Species passion pathy peculiar perhaps personal ideas phase present question reason reflection regard relation Robert Louis Stevenson seems self-feeling sense sentiment simple social order society sonal sort standards suggestion symbol sympathetic sympathy tendency things Thomas à Kempis thought tion traits true uncon vague vidual vigor whole word wrong
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Seite 168 - In its widest possible sense, however, a man's Self is the sum total of all that he CAN call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house, his wife and children, his ancestors and friends, his reputation and works, his lands and horses, and yacht and bank-account.
Seite 179 - Inwendig lernt kein Mensch sein Innerstes Erkennen; denn er mißt nach eignem Maß Sich bald zu klein und leider oft zu groß. Der Mensch erkennt sich nur im Menschen, nur Das Leben lehret jedem, was er sei.
Seite 160 - Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.
Seite 430 - Bursts up in flame; the war of tongue and pen Learns with what deadly purpose it was fraught, And, helpless in the fiery passion caught, Shakes all the pillared state with shock of men: Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed Confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, And cries reproachful : " Was it, then, my praise, And not myself was loved?
Seite 292 - Nothing in the world more subtle than the process of their gradual change! In the beginning they inhaled it unknowingly : you and I may have sent some of our breath toward infecting them, when we uttered our conforming falsities or drew our silly conclusions : or perhaps it came with the vibrations from a woman's glance.
Seite 182 - As we see our face, figure, and dress in the glass, and are interested in them because they are ours, and pleased or otherwise with them according as they do or do not answer to what we should like them to be...
Seite 387 - I brave the condemnation of my own family, club, and ' set ' ; when, as a protestant, I turn catholic ; as a catholic, freethinker ; as a ' regular practitioner,' homoeopath, or what not, I am always inwardly strengthened in my course and steeled against the loss of my actual social self by the thought of other and better possible social judges than those whose verdict goes against me now. The ideal social self which I thus seek in appealing to their decision...
Seite 171 - If you have writ your annals true, 'tis there, That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli : Alone I did it. — Boy ! Auf.
Seite 182 - A self-idea of this sort seems to have three principal elements: the imagination of our appearance to the other person; the imagination of his judgment of that appearance, and some sort of self-feeling, such as pride or mortification. The comparision with a lookingglass hardly suggests the second element, the imagined judgment, which is quite essential.
Seite 21 - I will not attempt any definition of instinct. It would be easy to show that several distinct mental actions are commonly embraced by this term; but every one understands what is meant, when it is said that instinct impels the cuckoo to migrate and to [lay her eggs in other birds' nests. An action, which we ourselves require experience to enable us to perform, when performed by an animal, more especially by a very young one, without experience, and when performed by many individuals in the same way,...