 | 1901 - 714 pages
...any. — School Education. PROF. WILLIAM JAMES, of Harvard, in his text-book on psychology, says : "Could the young but realize how soon they will become...heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves, its scar. The drunken Rip Van Winkle in Jefferson's... | |
 | Henrietta Amelia Mirick - 1901 - 316 pages
...Power of Habit There is no more miserable being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Could the young but realize how soon they will become...heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. — WILLIAM JAMES, in Principles... | |
 | Helen Dendy Bosanquet - 1902 - 376 pages
...in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way. Could the young but realise how soon they will become mere walking bundles of...virtue or of vice leaves its never - so - little scar " (James, Psychology, vol. i. p. 127). It is by interests, then, that the rational life is organised... | |
 | Newell Dwight Hillis - 1902 - 610 pages
...James has a striking passage on the physiological basis of mental and moral conditions. He says : " Could the young but realize how soon they will become...never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or [376] of vice leaves its never so little scar. The drunken Rip Van Winkle in Jefferson's play excuses... | |
 | Helen Bosanquet - 1902 - 414 pages
...this world by habitually fashioning our \ characters in the wrong way. Could the young but ' realise how soon they will become mere walking bundles of...Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its _ never - so - little scar " (James, Psychology, voL L p. 127). It is by interests, then, that the... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1902 - 184 pages
...things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast. . . . Could...state. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, 60 and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or vice leaves its never so little scar.... | |
 | Joseph John Findlay - 1902 - 496 pages
...Psycholo9y for Teachers, pp. 67, 68, by Professor Lloyd Morgan. (Edward Arnold). Could the young but realise how soon they will become mere walking bundles of...heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. — William James, Talks to Teachers, p. 77. (Longmans). Die Fiihigkeit des Lesens ist bei uns viel... | |
 | Joseph John Findlay - 1902 - 490 pages
...Professor Lloyd Morgan. Could the young but realise how soon they will become mere walking buntfles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. — William James, Talks to Teachers, p. 77. Die Fahigkeit des Lesens ist bei uns viel verbreiteter... | |
 | James Edward Peabody - 1903 - 362 pages
...hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way. Could the young but realize how soon they will become...Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never-so-little scar. The drunken Eip Van Winkle, in Jefferson's play, excuses himself for every fresh... | |
 | Edward Howard Griggs - 1903 - 360 pages
...hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way. Could the young but realize how soon they will become...own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone." Let it be noted, however, that we can establish such habits lastingly only with some cooperation of... | |
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Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. 
