 | International Congregational Council, International Congregational Council. Assembly - 1921 - 564 pages
...zeal, the tingle, the excitement of reality," or quoting James, further come to realize that " whenever a process of life communicates an eagerness to him...it, there the life becomes genuinely significant." Is it this significance which at present the League so sadly lacks? It is assumed that the rights of... | |
 | Ralph W. Pringle - 1922 - 422 pages
...OF ADOLESCENCE CHAPTER HI GENERAL SURVEY OF ADOLESCENCE In one of his lectures William James says, "Wherever a process of life communicates an eagerness...it, there the life becomes genuinely significant." Although this is stated as a general proposition, it applies with greatest force to that period of... | |
 | Lionel Danforth Edie - 1922 - 452 pages
...terms of group conformity and recognition, of emulation, and curiosity. Wherever, said William James, a process of life communicates an eagerness to him...it, there the life becomes genuinely significant. Important elements in a condition of interest are therefore self-choice of the activity, pleasure in... | |
 | Edwin Van Berghen Knickerbocker - 1923 - 386 pages
...symbol redolent with moral memories and sang a very paean of duty, struggle, and success. I had been as blind to the peculiar ideality of their conditions...it, there the life becomes genuinely significant. Sometimes the eagerness is more knit up with the motor activities, sometimes with the perceptions,... | |
 | American Library Association - 1924 - 616 pages
...unable to point to any one situation or experience in life more valuable or significant than any other. Wherever a process of life communicates an eagerness...it, there the life becomes genuinely significant." A man should, therefore, be very sure of his feelings toward the actualities and potentialities of... | |
 | Joseph Alexander Leighton - 1926 - 612 pages
...the unit you deal with, the hollower, the more brutal, the more mendacious is the life displayed.11 Wherever a process of life communicates an eagerness...it, there the life becomes genuinely significant. Sometimes the eagerness is more knit up with the motor activities, sometimes with the perceptions,... | |
 | Warner Taylor - 1927 - 668 pages
...symbol redolent with moral memories and sang a very paean of duty, struggle, and success. I had been as blind to the peculiar ideality of their conditions...it, there the life becomes genuinely significant. Sometimes the eagerness is more knit up with the motor activities, sometimes with the perceptions,... | |
 | Anna Augusta Von Helmholtz-Phelan - 1927 - 232 pages
...without being a psychologist he realized a great truth that psychology teaches, namely, that wherever the process of life communicates an eagerness to him who...it, there the life becomes genuinely significant. Sometimes it is more knit up with motor activities, sometimes with the perceptions, sometimes with... | |
 | Ross Lee Finney - 1928 - 592 pages
...as well as good psyenology, therefore, for William James l to write, /1 TaUtt to Teadun, pp. 234 (I. "Wherever a process of life communicates an eagerness...it, there the life becomes genuinely significant. Sometimes the eagerness is more knit up with motor activities, sometimes with the perceptions, sometimes... | |
 | Bertha Johnston, E. Lyell Earle - 1906 - 740 pages
...when childlike play ceases. In his remarkable chapter, "On a Certain Human Blindness," Mr. James says: "Wherever a process of life communicates an eagerness...it, there the life becomes genuinely significant." Surely this was also the idea of the old German child student who had such a deep appreciation of a... | |
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Wherever a process of life communicates an eagerness to him who lives it, there the life becomes genuinely significant. Sometimes the eagerness is more knit up with the motor activities, sometimes with the perceptions, sometimes with the imagination,... 
