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" I suppose, have thus suffered; and if I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through... "
The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter - Page 82
by Charles Darwin - 1887 - 395 pages
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Educational Aims and Methods: Lectures and Addresses

Joshua Fitch - Education - 1900 - 472 pages
...alone on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organized or better constituted than mine would not, I suppose,...character by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature1." There are no facts more familiar to the student of The law of evolution than those which...
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Educational Aims and Methods: Lectures and Addresses

Sir Joshua Girling Fitch - Education - 1900 - 472 pages
...suffered, and if I had to live my life again I would have made a rule to read some poetry, and lislen to some music at least once every week, for perhaps...character by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." 1 There are no facts more familiar to the student of The law of evolution than those which are grouped...
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Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

William James - Child psychology - 1900 - 328 pages
...least once every week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept alive through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." We all intend when young to be all that may become a man, before the destroyer cuts us down. We wish...
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Thinking and Learning to Think

Nathan Christ Schaeffer - Thought and thinking - 1900 - 360 pages
...least once a week ; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept alive through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of...character by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." * Every teacher has both felt and •witnessed the effect of embarrassment upon ability to think. To...
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The Reformation Settlement Examined in the Light of History and Law

Malcolm MacColl - Ecclesiastical law - 1901 - 852 pages
...taste for fine scenery, but it does not cause me the exquisite delight which it formerly did. . . . This curious and lamentable loss of the higher aesthetic...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature. It is odd that a man so familiar with the law of degeneration tending to atrophy, which results from...
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The Young Man in Modern Life

Beverly Ellison Warner - Conduct of life - 1902 - 216 pages
...again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week. . . . The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." Books, music, art, all beckon. Time ? Make time ! What are you living for ? The most barren, hopeless,...
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Beacon Lights of History: The new era. A supplementary volume by recent writers

John Lord - History - 1902 - 528 pages
...did." Darwin was convinced that the loss of these tastes was not only a loss of happiness, but might possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably...to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional side of one's nature. So far as he could judge, his mind had become in his later years a kind of machine...
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The Bookman, Volume 17

Book collecting - 1903 - 706 pages
...369 would not, I suppose, have thus suffered ; and if I had to live my life again. I would make it a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature. Some would add that it also enfeebled his spirituality, but to this we must take exception. The highest...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 92

American essays - 1903 - 1046 pages
...to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week ; for perhaps the parts of tny brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." The famous naturalist's experience has been that of countless men whose devotion to their own chosen...
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Studies in Physiology, Anatomy and Hygiene

James Edward Peabody - Anatomy - 1903 - 362 pages
...least once every week ; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept alive through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." Rest. — Experiments with animals show a striking difference in the appearance of nerve cells before...
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