Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. They have built all the roads, cities, and machines in the world, written all the books, spoken all the words, and, in fact, done everything that man has accomplished with matter. Lessons in Psychology - Page 208by Elizabeth Helen Hannahs - 1908 - 219 pagesFull view - About this book
| Granville Stanley Hall - 1904 - 642 pages
...role. Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. They have built all the roads, cities, and machines in the world, written...the dreadful chasm between good intentions and their execution is liable to appear and widen. Character might be in a sense defined as a plexus of motor... | |
| Granville Stanley Hall - 1911 - 648 pages
...role. Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. They have built all the roads, cities, and machines in the world, written...the dreadful chasm between good intentions and their execution is liable to appear and widen. Character might be in a sense defined as a plexus of motor... | |
| Granville Stanley Hall - 1906 - 404 pages
...role. Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. They have built all the roads, cities, and machines in the world, written...the dreadful chasm between good intentions and their execution is liable to appear and widen. Character might be in a sense defined as a plexus of motor... | |
| Granville Stanley Hall - 1907 - 400 pages
...role. Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. They have built all the roads, cities, and machines in the world, written...the dreadful chasm between good intentions and their execution is liable to appear and widen. Character might be in a sense defined as a plexus of motor... | |
| Granville Stanley Hall - 1917 - 398 pages
...role. Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the o7gans"of the will. They have built all the roads, cities, and machines in the world, written...everything that man has accomplished with matter. If they afe^unHeveloped or grow relaxed and flabby, the dreadful chasm between good intentions and their execution... | |
| Religious Education Association - 1907 - 392 pages
...fidgetiness, and lack of skill are largely muscle faults, and, as Dr. Stanley Hall says, " if the muscles are undeveloped or grow relaxed and flabby, the dreadful chasm between good intentions and their execution is liable to appear and widen. Character may be defined as a plexus of motor habits. Muscles... | |
| Sydney Herbert Mellone, Margaret Drummond - 1907 - 546 pages
...urge our wishes upon them, — and all these things involve muscular innervation. " If the muscles are undeveloped or grow relaxed and flabby, the dreadful chasm between good intentions and their execution is liable to appear and widen." 1 The pen is said to be mightier than the sword, but to wield... | |
| 1914 - 260 pages
...building. Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. They have built all the roads, cities and machines in the world, written all...the dreadful chasm between good intentions and their execution is liable to appear and widen. Character might be in a sense denned as a plexus of motor... | |
| Michigan. Department of Public Instruction - 1915 - 274 pages
...building. Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. They have built all the roads, cities and machines in the world, written all...the dreadful chasm between good intentions and their execution is liable to appear and widen. Character might be in a sense denned as a plexus of motor... | |
| Elias Hershey Sneath, George Hodges, Henry Hallam Tweedy - 1917 - 352 pages
...Stanley Hall' " are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. They have built all the roads, cities and machines in the world, written all...the dreadful chasm between good intentions and their execution is liable to appear and widen. Character might be in a sense defined as a plexus of motor... | |
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