The Mind and Its Education - George Herbert Betts

necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not, if ...

religious. Specialization is necessary, but specialization in our interests should rest upon a broad field of ...

much pressure from his will, providing he is sufficiently afraid of the master. In order that the will ...

encouraged and given a chance to grow. 6. ORDER OF DEVELOPMENT OF OUR INTERESTS The order in which our interests ...

willing to sacrifice himself for the good of all. Interest in moral questions is beginning, and right and w ...

of interests as you can well take care of? Have you so many interests that you are slighting the deve ...

CHAPTER XVII THE WILL The fundamental fact in all ranges of life from the lowest to the highest ...

The Function of the Will.—Concerning the function of the will there can be no haziness or doubt. Volition ...

effort on our part. Still others were accomplished only with effort, and after a struggle to decide wh ...

acts is a broad field of action which may be called automatic or spontaneous. The distinguishing feature of ...

FIG. 19.—Star for mirror drawing. The mirror breaks up the automatic control previously developed, and requires ...

to our inclinations. We daily are confronted by the necessity of making decisions in which the mind must be ...

important ones of which may now briefly be described after the general plan suggested by Professor James: The ...

may occur when we are hesitating between two lines of action which are seemingly about equally ...

direction. From the other course our very nature shrinks; duty alone bids us take this line, and pro ...

Nor must we forget to take into account both the negative and the positive functions of th ...

which results in the hasty word or deed, or the rash act committed on the impulse of the moment and repented ...

tortures himself in his sober moments with remorse and the thought that he was intended for better things, but ...

without giving time for a survey of the field of motives, neither is action "sicklied o'er with ...

the day of stress. Better a thousand times such training as this in the thick of life's real conflict ...