...irrational association of ideas. "In particular," he adds, and the remark is specially significant, " I have long felt that the prevailing tendency to regard...marked distinctions of human character as innate, and to ignore the irresistible proofs that by far the greater part of these differences, whether between...

...intuition to be the voice of Nature and of God, speaking with an authority higher than that of our reason. In particular, I have long felt that the prevailing...sexes, are such as not only might but naturally would bo produced by differences in circumstances, is one of the chief hindrances to the rational treatment...

...explanation or apology in regard to that work upon Hamilton to which President Porter makes reference. " In particular I have long felt that the prevailing...that by far the greater part of those differences * * are such as not only might but naturally would be produced by differences in circumstances, is...

...that of our reason. In particular, I have long felt"? that the prevailing tendency to regarcfairilTe marked distinctions/ of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and tol ignore the irresistible proofs that by far the greater part of those differences, whether between...

...intuition to be the voice of Nature and of God, speaking with an authority higher than that of our reason. In particular, I have long felt that the prevailing...whether between individuals, races, or sexes, are such_as not only might but naturally would be produced by differences in circumstances, is one of the...

...to be the voice of Nature and of God, speaking with an authority higher than that of Reason." This "prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate" has its source in the intuitional metaphysics and constitutes "one of the chief hindrances to the rational...

...that a disposition "so agreeable to human indolence," that it must be "attacked at the very root," was the prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions...would be produced by differences in circumstances. . . . This tendency "is one of the chief hindrances to the rational treatment of great social questions...

...century, particularly those of liberal political outlook. John Stuart Mill, for instance, wrote in 1869: I have long felt that the prevailing tendency to regard...that by far the greater part of those differences... are such as not only might but naturally would be produced by differences in circumstances, is one...

...notion that observed differences in human character were inherent and hence immutable. Mill contended that 'by far the greater part of those differences,...but naturally would be produced by differences in circumstances.'12 The function of ethology is to furnish a systematic understanding of how the fundamental...

...obligation to prefer the environmentalist explanation. He expressed this view in his Autobiography: "I have long felt that the prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human nature as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore the irresistible proofs that by far the...