 | Colin McAlpin - Aesthetics - 1915 - 452 pages
...the robust honesty of Darwin compelled him to confess that : — " If I had to live my life again 1 would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen...music at least once every week, for perhaps the parts in my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is... | |
 | Andrew Webster Archibald - Nature in the Bible - 1915 - 246 pages
...through disuse, becoming "atrophied." He added that if he could have lived his life over again, he "would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week." He acknowledged that his exclusively scientific habits may have been injurious to his intellect, and... | |
 | Fred Wellington Ruckstuhl - Art - 1916 - 618 pages
...January 1917 THE ART WORLD the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. ... If I had to live my life over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for, perhaps, the part of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept alive through use.... | |
 | Robert Henry Charles - Sermons, English - 1917 - 268 pages
...seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. ... If I had to live my life again, I would have made...of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept alive through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to... | |
 | Thomas Sharper Knowlson - Genius - 1917 - 334 pages
...accomplishment." — Old Greek Education, p. 41. By JP Mahaffy, MA ' Darwin said : " If I had to live my life over again I would have made a rule to read some poetry...and listen to some music at least once every week." — Life and Letters, p. 100. one hour of idealism. It needs but a small outlay to possess the best... | |
 | Franklin Bobbitt - Citizenship - 1918 - 322 pages
...the atrophy of that part of the brain alone on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. ... If I had to live my life again, I would have made...of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept alive through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness and may possibly be injurious to... | |
 | Charles Fiske - Christianity - 1918 - 200 pages
...higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. If I had my life to live again, however, I should make it a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week ; for perhaps the part of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use."... | |
 | 1896 - 348 pages
...seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. If I had to live my life again I would have made a...the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is я loss of happiness and may possibly be Injurious... | |
 | Charles Henry Brent - New Thought - 1919 - 112 pages
...mind more highly organized or better constituted than mine, would not, I suppose, have thus suffered; and if I had to live my life again, I would have made...some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for per1 DARWIN'S Autobiography. haps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been... | |
 | Douglas Gordon Crawford - English language - 1919 - 398 pages
...be placed. 1. Darwin once said when speaking of poetry: If I had my life to live over, I would make a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. 2. The peculiarly refreshing thing, says Brandes, about the average mortal is his inability to understand... | |
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The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature. 
