The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 20. köideLittle, Brown, 1886 |
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Page 69
... result is pleasurable , attention can be readily position of the higher intellectual processes has not yet accommodated , ―is , so to say , economically meted out ; been reached , there will be no inconvenience in at once and , whenever ...
... result is pleasurable , attention can be readily position of the higher intellectual processes has not yet accommodated , ―is , so to say , economically meted out ; been reached , there will be no inconvenience in at once and , whenever ...
Page 70
... result of a comparison of his present position in this respect with some former position or with the position of some one else . Without descending to details , we may say that two prospects are before him , and the larger and fairer is ...
... result of a comparison of his present position in this respect with some former position or with the position of some one else . Without descending to details , we may say that two prospects are before him , and the larger and fairer is ...
Page 72
... result from incommensurable states of pain and pleasure , there seems no other way of saving the unity and continuity of the subject except by a speculative assumption , the doc- trine known as the freedom of the will . The one position ...
... result from incommensurable states of pain and pleasure , there seems no other way of saving the unity and continuity of the subject except by a speculative assumption , the doc- trine known as the freedom of the will . The one position ...
Page 73
... result of mere exuberance , an overflow of good spirits , as we sometimes say , and these movements , as already remarked , are always comparatively purposeless or playful . Even the earliest expressions of pain , on the contrary , seem ...
... result of mere exuberance , an overflow of good spirits , as we sometimes say , and these movements , as already remarked , are always comparatively purposeless or playful . Even the earliest expressions of pain , on the contrary , seem ...
Page 74
... result of subjective selection — i.e . , of feeling - but , being once established , it persists like other associations independently of it . ( 2 ) Those movements are especially apt to become nascent which have not been recently exe ...
... result of subjective selection — i.e . , of feeling - but , being once established , it persists like other associations independently of it . ( 2 ) Those movements are especially apt to become nascent which have not been recently exe ...
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