| American essays - 1916 - 986 pages
...the final complete loss of those faculties through neglect. 'The loss of these tastes,' he says, ' is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious...character by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.' The intellect of man, in itself, is never supreme or sufficient. Feeling or instinct is half of knowledge.... | |
| United States. Bureau of Education - Education - 1895 - 1082 pages
...been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly bo injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." This is, perhaps, too negative an illustration to carry conviction with it; but a positive expression... | |
| 1887 - 604 pages
...life over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week, for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.* Or again, the following extract from a letter, June 17, 1868, to Sir JD Hooker : I am glad you were... | |
| Charles Darwin - Biologists - 1888 - 586 pages
...essays on all sorts of subjects interest me as much as ever they did. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.V^ My books have sold largely in England, have been translated into many languages, and passed... | |
| Education - 1888 - 712 pages
...alone, on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organized or better constituted than mine, would not, I suppose,...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." (I., Si, 82). Mr. Darwin uses the right word; part of his brain had become "atrophied;" but he is mistaken... | |
| Education - 1888 - 746 pages
...alone, on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organized or better constituted than mine, would not, I suppose,...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." (I., 81, 82). Mr. Darwin uses the right word; part of his brain had become "atrophied;" but he is mistaken... | |
| Robert Bruce (Congregational Minister.) - 1888 - 104 pages
...intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have also almost lost my taste for pictures and music. . . . The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness and...character by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." Our mission is to " the world " for which the Saviour died, not merely to "the world of culture." In... | |
| Music - 1888 - 1074 pages
...again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." Surely words like these, deliberately written by a man of such great, and at the same time, such thoroughly... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - Liberalism (Religion) - 1889 - 608 pages
...and listen to some music at least once every week, for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophidd would thus have been kept active through use. The...moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of my nature." Had Darwin been as well informed in psychology as he was in those sciences to which ho... | |
| Presbyterianism - 1889 - 656 pages
...listen to some music at least once every week; for perhaps the part of my brain now atrophied would then have been kept active through use. The loss of these...intellect, and more probably to the moral character." Would that he had early in life adopted some such rule; and in the same spirit and for the same, if... | |
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