| 1916 - 986 páginas
...through neglect. 'The loss of these tastes,' he says, ' is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the...character by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.' The intellect of man, in itself, is never supreme or sufficient. Feeling or instinct is half of knowledge.... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1887 - 588 páginas
...been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature. My books have sold largely in England, have been translated into many languages, and passed through... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1887 - 570 páginas
...been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature. My books have sold largely in England, have been translated into many languages, and passed through... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1887 - 420 páginas
...been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature. My books have sold largely in England, have been translated into many languages, and passed through... | |
| 1887 - 604 páginas
...been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.* Or again, the following extract from a letter, June 17, 1868, to Sir JD Hooker : I am glad you were... | |
| 1888 - 758 páginas
...been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." (I., 81, 82). Mr. Darwin uses the right word; part of his brain had become "atrophied;" but he is mistaken... | |
| William Parker Cutler - 1888 - 1034 páginas
...been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature. My books have sold largely in England, have been translated into many languages, and passed through... | |
| 1888 - 1074 páginas
...music at least once every week. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." Surely words like these, deliberately written by a man of such great, and at the same time, such thoroughly... | |
| 1888 - 712 páginas
...been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." (I., Si, 82). Mr. Darwin uses the right word; part of his brain had become "atrophied;" but he is mistaken... | |
| Robert Bruce (Congregational Minister.) - 1888 - 104 páginas
...taste for pictures and music. . . . The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness and may possibly be injurious to the intellect and more probably to the...character by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." Our mission is to " the world " for which the Saviour died, not merely to "the world of culture." In... | |
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