 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1895 - 1082 páginas
...machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. If I had to live my life over again I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some mnsic at least once a week; for perhaps the part of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept... | |
 | 1905 - 592 páginas
...the greatest authority on degeneration : "If I had my life to live over again I wojld have made the rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week." If at first a feeling of discouragement or a sentiment of forthcoming failure arises, be assured... | |
 | 1922 - 694 páginas
...for the fine arts. Darwin adds that if he had had his life to live over again, he would have made it a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week, "For," he says, "perhaps the part of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept alive through use."... | |
 | 1919 - 714 páginas
...on which the higher tastes depend I cannot conceive. If I had to live my life again I would make it a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week, for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would have been kept alive through use." Every... | |
 | 1887 - 604 páginas
...constituted than mine would not, I suppose, have thus suffered : and if I had to live my life over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week, for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use.... | |
 | 1888 - 1074 páginas
...seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. . . If I had to live my life again, I would have made...and listen to some 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... | |
 | 1888 - 938 páginas
...atrophy of that part of the brain alone on which the higher tastes depend, I can not conceive. ... If I had to live my life again, I •would have made...some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week ; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use.... | |
 | 1888 - 898 páginas
...life again, I •would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week ; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use.f ... It is an accursed evil to a man [he writes to Hooker in 1858] to become so absorbed in any... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1889 - 608 páginas
...mind more highly organized or better constituted than mine, would not, I suppose, have thus suffered, and if I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule toread some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week, for perhaps the parts of my brain... | |
 | 1889 - 656 páginas
...Darwin writes: "If I had to live my life over again, I would have made it a rule to read some poetry or listen to some music at least once every week; for perhaps the part of my brain now atrophied would then have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes... | |
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The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature. 
