A Study for the Times: An Inquiry Into Thought and MoticesG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1920 - 324 pages |
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A Study for the Times, an Inquiry Into Thought and Motive (Classic Reprint) William McKim No preview available - 2017 |
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accept action altruism analogy appear arise attention automatic writing awakened become believe bias brain character child complex conclusion consciousness conversation critic degree desire distorted domain doubt elements ence Encyclopædia Britannica environment error evidence experience expression external facts fallacy false feeling follow function Gardanne give Gustave LeBon Hans Gross Hélène Smith human ideas Iliad illusion impressions individual induce inference influence innate insanity intellect intelligence interest judgment knowledge language less logical Madame Roland man's manifestation Max Müller means memory ment mental processes merely middle term mind mystic nature ness object observation opinion Otto Behaghel ourselves perception perhaps persons phase phenomena physical premise present psychic question readily reasoning recognize regard religion religious Sainte-Beuve says sciousness seems self-seeking sensations sense strong suppose syllogism tends term things thought tion true truth uncon unconscious unconscious mind usually vary William Blake words writing
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Page 152 - THERE was a child went forth every day, And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day, Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.
Page 259 - Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'da blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality : All is but toys : renown, and grace, is dead ; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.
Page 180 - it will be questioned ; ' when the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire, somewhat like a guinea ? ' Oh ! no, no ! I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host, crying : ' Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty ! ' I question not my corporeal eye, any more than I would question a window concerning a sight.
Page 108 - I cannot tell : this same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights.
Page 161 - ... forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus, and at a touch they are there in all their completeness, definite types of mentality which probably somewhere have their field of application and adaptation. No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded.
Page 152 - Affection that will not be gainsay'd, the sense of what is real, the thought if after all it should prove unreal, The doubts of day-time and the doubts of night-time, the curious whether and how, Whether that which appears so is so, or is it all flashes and specks ? Men and women crowding fast in the streets, if they are not flashes and specks what are they?
Page 90 - ... to it ; his own witnesses are applauded and encouraged ; the statements which seem to throw discredit on them are controverted ; the contradictions into which they fall are explained away ; a clear and connected abstract of their evidence is given. Everything that is offered on the other...
Page 25 - Wise men have said are wearisome; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior (And what he brings, what needs he elsewhere seek) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself...
Page 264 - First, as in their own defence, as being exposed to scorn ; but in process of time, by a general habit. Also it stirreth in them industry, and especially of this kind, to watch and observe the weakness of others, that they may have somewhat to repay.