The Mind and Its Education - George Herbert Betts

voice of the past speaks to the present, and the present has no choice but to obey. Instincts Are Racial H ...

No child is born with all its instincts ripe and ready for action. Yet each individual ...

that the defense of the man against threatened danger would be very different from that of the child; yet th ...

The child whom the pressure of circumstances or unwise authority of parents keeps from mingling with ...

and jealousy may be said to head the list of our instincts. It will be impossible in our brief space t ...

standards, our political faith, and our religious creeds. Our views of life and the values we set on its attainme ...

lives comes from our material environment. Good clothes, artistic homes, beautiful pictures and ...

constant factor in all grades of animal life. The swarming insects, the playful kitten, the frisking lambs, ...

initiative, to strenuous and sustained effort, to endurance of hardship and fatigue, to social participation and ...

unconsciously looking forward to a more perfect life when the responsibilities shall be a little more rea ...

learn its verbal description. Our deepest impulses lead to creation rather than simple mental appropriation ...

often a thrill of satisfaction—even if it be later followed by remorse—in doing the forbidden or the unconv ...

back under the bed where he was afraid to look for the hidden monster which he was sure was hiding there a ...

We are all provided by nature with some instincts which, while they may serve a good purpose in our de ...

What instincts have you noticed developing in children? What ones have you observed to fade away? ...

CHAPTER XIV FEELING AND ITS FUNCTIONS In the psychical world as well as the physical we must meet and overc ...

pleasant and the unpleasant, or the agreeable and the disagreeable, are often used. Aversion is frequently employ ...

the case is no different. Who has not reveled in the pleasure accompanying the memories of past joys? On ...

temperatures; and every other type of end-organ of the body is acting as a "sender" to telegrap ...

be grateful music to our ears when we are in one mood, and excruciatingly discordant noise when we are i ...