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Page 45
... youth up that he became immune to all ! In any case , the living creature has astonishing powers of adjusting itself to , and of counteracting frequently recurrent poisons . The severest test to which an organism can be put is a serious ...
... youth up that he became immune to all ! In any case , the living creature has astonishing powers of adjusting itself to , and of counteracting frequently recurrent poisons . The severest test to which an organism can be put is a serious ...
Page 63
... , which are most influential during the plastic period of youth , yet are most apt to bring out depressant changes during the period when. MECHANICAL CHEMICAL PHYSICAL ANIMATE MECHANICAL CHEMICAL. Surroundings , Food , Occupations 63.
... , which are most influential during the plastic period of youth , yet are most apt to bring out depressant changes during the period when. MECHANICAL CHEMICAL PHYSICAL ANIMATE MECHANICAL CHEMICAL. Surroundings , Food , Occupations 63.
Page 84
... youth of fifteen who is growing rapidly may require as much food as his father , and he often does not get it ! Travellers on a liner , unless they are taking a great deal of exercise , are apt to lose half the value of the sea - voyage ...
... youth of fifteen who is growing rapidly may require as much food as his father , and he often does not get it ! Travellers on a liner , unless they are taking a great deal of exercise , are apt to lose half the value of the sea - voyage ...
Page 118
... youths , and most of them went to college . But it would be very un- wise to generalise from a few cases . Even the best " nature " is the better of good " nurture " ; and in a multitude of cases it is the task of parent and physician ...
... youths , and most of them went to college . But it would be very un- wise to generalise from a few cases . Even the best " nature " is the better of good " nurture " ; and in a multitude of cases it is the task of parent and physician ...
Page 145
... youth ; there is the strength of maturity ; and then comes the downgrade of ageing . From vita minima to vita minima , the old biologists said . There is an ascending and a descending curve , sep- arated by a more or less level stretch ...
... youth ; there is the strength of maturity ; and then comes the downgrade of ageing . From vita minima to vita minima , the old biologists said . There is an ascending and a descending curve , sep- arated by a more or less level stretch ...
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Page 314 - I should premise that I use the term Struggle for Existence in a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important) not only the life of the individual, but success in leaving progeny.
Page 23 - The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Page 123 - Love-buds put before you and within you whoever you are, Buds to be unfolded on the old terms, If you bring the warmth of the sun to them they will open and bring form, color, perfume, to you, If you become the aliment and the wet they will become flowers, fruits, tall branches and trees.
Page 308 - Any arrangements which in a considerable degree prevent superiority from profiting by the rewards of superiority, or shield inferiority from the evils it entails — any arrangements which tend to make it as well to be inferior as to be superior, are arrangements diametrically opposed to the progress of organization and the reaching of a higher life.
Page 22 - ... whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 169 - I have a question for thee alone, my brother: like a sounding-lead, cast I this question into thy soul, that I may know its depth. Thou art young, and desirest child and marriage. But I ask thee : Art thou a man entitled to desire a child? Art thou the victorious one, the self-conqueror, the ruler of thy passions, the master of thy virtues? Thus do I ask thee. Or doth the animal speak in thy wish, and necessity? Or isolation? Or discord in thee?
Page 89 - ... of those in whom life is young, upon those whose animal spirits are no longer as buoyant as theirs. " Laughing is good for digestion," as the old saw hath it, and " he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast," but " there is a season for all things under the heaven.
Page 115 - A devil, a born devil, on whose nature Nurture can never stick ; on whom my pains, Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost ; And as, with age, his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers.
Page 180 - For two beings so complex and so diverse as man and woman, the whole of life is not too long for them to know one another well and love one another worthily.
Page 88 - Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate, And bend the exile to his fate, And, moulded of one element With the days and firmament, Teach him on these as stairs to climb, And live on even terms with Time; Whilst upper life the slender rill Of human sense doth overfill.