... The Laws of HabitD. Appleton, 1887 |
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... nervous system more and more appropriate paths , and these vital phenomena recur under similar excitements from with- out , when they have been interrupted a certain time . " Not in the nervous system alone . A scar anywhere is a locus ...
... nervous system more and more appropriate paths , and these vital phenomena recur under similar excitements from with- out , when they have been interrupted a certain time . " Not in the nervous system alone . A scar anywhere is a locus ...
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... nervous system , we find how many so - called functional diseases seem to keep themselves going simply because they happen to have once begun ; and how the forcible cutting short by medicine of a few at- tacks is often sufficient to ...
... nervous system , we find how many so - called functional diseases seem to keep themselves going simply because they happen to have once begun ; and how the forcible cutting short by medicine of a few at- tacks is often sufficient to ...
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... nervous system as a mass of matter whose parts , constantly kept in states of different tension , are as constantly tending to equalize their states . The equalization between any two points occurs through whatever path may at the ...
... nervous system as a mass of matter whose parts , constantly kept in states of different tension , are as constantly tending to equalize their states . The equalization between any two points occurs through whatever path may at the ...
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... nervous system ; it being not less obvious to the eye of reason that the ' waste occasioned by its functional activity must be constantly repaired by the production of new tissue , than it is to the eye of sense that such reparation ...
... nervous system ; it being not less obvious to the eye of reason that the ' waste occasioned by its functional activity must be constantly repaired by the production of new tissue , than it is to the eye of sense that such reparation ...
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... nervous system grows to the modes in which it has been exercised expresses the philosophy of habit in a nutshell . We may now trace some of the practical applications of the principle to human life . The first result of it is that habit ...
... nervous system grows to the modes in which it has been exercised expresses the philosophy of habit in a nutshell . We may now trace some of the practical applications of the principle to human life . The first result of it is that habit ...
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acquired animals attention automatic balls become body brain called ception cerebrum chain character Co.'s Standard consciousness Death-claims emotions equi expression fingers functional activity grows habit covers habitual action hand idea ideational centers infinitesimally small amount Insurance in Force intellectual knit law of habit librium matic matter maxim mechanical menschliche ment Mental Physiology mind mode modification motor effects movements muscles muscular contraction muscular feelings nerve-current nervous system nervous tissue never nutrition occur once one's organism outset outward path perception performed period of growth philosophy of habit plastic play possible practical principles promote the religion prompted question reflex arc result SCIENCE IN RELIGIOUS secondarily auto sectarian sects sensations Spencer's spinal cord STANFORD UNIVERSITY structure Surplus tendency thing thought tion tissue Tontine train of thought traversed unwonted line violin volition voluntary action wave of rearrangement whole
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Seite 451 - Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone.
Seite 447 - Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein.
Seite 447 - For this we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous to us, as we should guard against the plague.
Seite 451 - Well! he may not count it, and a kind Heaven may not count it; but it is being counted none the less. Down among his...
Seite 451 - As we become permanent drunkards by so many separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work. Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the workingday, he may safely leave the final result to itself.
Seite 448 - ... every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all. If there be such daily duties not yet ingrained in any one of my readers, let him begin this very hour to set the matter right. In Professor Bain's chapter on 'The Moral Habits'...
Seite 449 - Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain. It is not in the moment of their forming, but in the moment of their producing motor effects, that resolves and aspirations communicate the new "set
Seite 434 - Not in the nervous system alone. A scar anywhere is a locus minoris resistentice, more liable to be abraded, inflamed, to suffer pain and cold, than are the neighboring parts. A sprained ankle, a dislocated arm, are in danger of being sprained or dislocated again ; joints that have once been attacked by...
Seite 441 - A man might be occupied all day in dressing and undressing himself; the attitude of his body would absorb all his attention and energy; the washing of his hands or the fastening of a button would be as difficult to him on each occasion as to the child on its first trial; and he would, furthermore, be completely exhausted by his exertions.
Seite 439 - Carpenter's phrase that our nervous system grows to the modes in which it has been exercised expresses the philosophy of habit in a nutshell. We may now trace some of the practical applications of the principle to human life. The first result of it is that habit simplifies the movements required to achieve a given result, ma^es them more accurate and diminishes fatigue.