 It does not occur to them to have any inclination, except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke : even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only...  How to Study and Teaching how to Study - Page 261by Frank Morton McMurry - 1909 - 324 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1868 - 648 pages
...he comes in contact. Even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only among...following their own nature, they have no nature to follow. "Hence, " in this age the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom,... | |
 | 1866 - 924 pages
...bowed to the yoke ; even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds ; they exercise choice only among...until, by dint of not following their own nature, thoy have no nature to follow; their human capacities ate withered and starved ; they become incapable... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1859 - 216 pages
...first thing thought lof ; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only lamong things commonly don el -peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are...— *"/ and are generally without either opinions or feel\ ings of home growth, or properly their ownTv Now 1 ° is this, or is it not, the desirable condition... | |
 | 1860 - 446 pages
...threatens to become the almost universal type of character ; even in amusements men " like in crowds ;" "until, by dint of not following their own nature,...their human capacities are withered and starved." Is such a state, he asks, desirable for a human being? It is so according to the Calvinistic theory,... | |
 | Alexander Alison - 1860 - 476 pages
...equally with crimes, until by dint of changing their own nature they have no nature to follow. Thus man's capacities are withered and starved, they become incapable...wishes or native pleasures, and are generally without any opinions or feelings of home growth. Human nature being radically corrupt there is no redemption... | |
 | 1860 - 634 pages
...bowed to the yoke : even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds: they exercise choice only among...peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shmmed equally with crimes ; until by dint of not following their own nature, they have no nature to... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 232 pages
...bowed to the yoke : even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of ; they like in crowds ; they exercise choice only among...peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned "7 equally with crimes : until by dint of not following their own nature, they have no nature to follow... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 118 pages
...bowed to the yoke : even in what people do fo pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of ; they like in crowds ; they exercise choice only among...conduct, are shunned equally with crimes : until by dint oi not following their own nature, they have no nature to follow : their human capacities are withered... | |
 | Elizabeth C. T. Carne - 1868 - 204 pages
...bowed to the yoke : even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of. They like in crowds ; they exercise choice only among...conduct, are shunned equally with crimes ; until, hy dint of not following their own nature, they have no nature to follow."* There is, however, this... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - 1871 - 450 pages
...bowed to the yoke : even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only among...are generally without either opinions or feelings of home-growth, or properly their own."1 We will consider next the theocratic force arresting development.... | |
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