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accept acquired activity admiration ancient Greece anger animals arises attain attitude become behaviour binary compound bodily Chapter character child civilised complex emotions conation conative tendency conduct consciousness constitution degree desire disposition doctrine effects effort especially essential evoked excitement experience expression F. H. Bradley fact fear feeling gregarious habit human mind idea imitation implies impulse individual influence innate instinctive action J. S. Mill kind ment mental process merely mode moral judgment moral sentiments motive movements native nature negative self-feeling object operation organised pain peculiar perhaps persons play pleasure positive self-feeling present primary emotions primitive principle psychological hedonism psychology pugnacity punishment recognised reflex action regard satisfaction seems self-consciousness self-regarding sentiment sense senti sentiment of love Shand social social environment societies sorrow stinct strength strong sympathetic sympathy T. H. Green tender emotion theory tion tive volition
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Page 155 - Joy is the sweet voice, Joy the luminous cloud We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a suffusion from that light.
Page 45 - We may say, then, that directly or indirectly the instincts are the prime movers of all human activity ; by the conative or impulsive force of some instinct (or of some habit derived from an instinct), every train of thought, however cold and passionless it may seem, is borne along towards its end, and every bodily activity is initiated and sustained.
Page 100 - Suggestion is a process of communication resulting in the acceptance with conviction of the communicated proposition in the absence of logically adequate grounds for its acceptance.
Page 248 - The essential achievement of the will, in short, when it is most 'voluntary' ', is to attend to a difficult object and hold it fast before the mind.
Page 46 - Take away these instinctive dispositions with their powerful impulses, and the organism would become incapable of activity of any kind; it would lie inert and motionless like a wonderful clockwork whose mainspring had been removed or a steam-engine whose fires had been drawn. These impulses are the mental forces...
Page 20 - The human mind has certain innate or inherited tendencies which are the essential springs or motive powers of all thought and action, whether individual or collective, and are the bases from which the character and will of individuals and of nations are gradually developed under the guidance of the intellectual faculties
Page 4 - ... work it has been necessary to draw on our income for next year, but this has seemed essential on account of the perishable nature of the older ethnological specimens in which the Museum is especially rich. Several of these objects were collected in the last part of the Seventeenth Century, and many in the Eighteenth Century and the early part of the Nineteenth Century. So great has been the change in the life and customs of nearly all native peoples during the last fifty years that these objects...
Page 9 - By the principle of self-preference, understand that propensity in human nature, by which, on the occasion of every act he exercises, every human being is led to pursue that line of conduct which, according to his view of the case, taken by him at the moment, will be in the highest degree contributory to his own greatest happiness...
Page 106 - imitate " in this way, so as to make it cover the process of accepting a suggestion. But in the more strict sense of the word
Page 155 - Life, and Life's effluence, cloud at once and shower, Joy, Lady! is the spirit and the power, Which wedding Nature to us gives in dower A new Earth and new Heaven...