Human Nature and the Social Order

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C. Scribner's Sons, 1902 - 413 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 118 - A self-idea of this sort seems to have three principal elements ; the imagination of our appearance to the other person ; the imagination of his judgment of that appearance, and some sort of self-feeling, such as pride or mortification.
الصفحة 193 - Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves.
الصفحة 104 - In its widest possible sense, however, a man's Self is the sum total of all that he CAN call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house, his wife and children, his ancestors and friends, his reputation and works, his lands and horses, and yacht and bank-account.
الصفحة 95 - Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.
الصفحة 118 - The thing that moves us to pride or shame is not the mere mechanical reflection of ourselves, but an imputed sentiment, the imagined effect of this reflection upon another's mind.
الصفحة 305 - Bursts up in flame; the war of tongue and pen Learns with what deadly purpose it was fraught, And, helpless in the fiery passion caught, Shakes all the pillared state with shock of men: Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed Confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, And cries reproachful : " Was it, then, my praise, And not myself was loved?
الصفحة 197 - Nothing in the world more subtle than the process of their gradual change! In the beginning they inhaled it unknowingly : you and I may have sent some of our breath toward infecting them, when we uttered our conforming falsities or drew our silly conclusions : or perhaps it came with the vibrations from a woman's glance.
الصفحة 207 - Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest ; when they are sick or aged : in the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.
الصفحة 70 - So far as the study of immediate social relations is concerned the personal idea is the real person. That is to say, it is in this alone that one man exists for another, and acts directly upon his mind. My association with you evidently consists in the relation between my idea of you and the rest of my mind.

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