...Habit "keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance," and prevents the disintegration of social life. It "saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor," it "holds the miner in his darkness, and nails the countryman to his log cabin and his lonely farm through...

...Occasional Maladaptive Value By and large automatic habits are advantageous. In the words of William James, "Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society,...deserted by those brought up to tread therein. ... It dooms us all to fight out the battle of life upon the lines of our nature or our early choice, and...

...instance, sees habit as "the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most conservative agent": It [habit] alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance,...walks of life from being deserted by those brought upon to tread therein. (James, 1890, p. 121) Like an "invisible law, as strong as gravitation," habit...

...The Borough, letter 3 (1810). Repr. in Poetical Works, eds. A.), and RM Carlyle (1908, rev.1 924). 3 Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its...of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be. MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO, (1864-1936) Spanish philosophical...

...expended; and, second, it decreases the amount of conscious attention needed to perform the actions. "Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent." It is to our advantage to cultivate "as many useful actions as we can" as habits. Indeed, James exclaims...

...fundamentally conservative, tending to keep us in our place and to preserve the social status quo: Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its...deserted by those brought up to tread therein ... it protects us from invasion by the natives of the desert and of the frozen zone. It dooms us all to fight...

...1981. chapter eleven Routine as rut and groove Why the attack on routine misses the point entirely Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its...what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance. ("^William James If there is anything that gets some gurus hot under the collar more than common sense,...

...enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative influence. It alone is what keeps us within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the uprisings of the poor. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted...

...simultaneity of body sense and emotion is a point that I develop in this chapter. 2. James stated: "Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society,...being deserted by those brought up to tread therein" (James 1950[1890]: 121). 3. See Lyon 1997 for a critique of Mauss' concept of habitus, and the further...

...James's reactionary use of his romanticism about the inner life also underlies his account of habit. Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its...conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. It alone...