Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political SocietyC. K. Paul & Company, 1881 - 224 pagini |
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... action takes place , in which the afferent nerves are the optic , the efferent , the facial . When a bad smell causes a grimace , there is a reflex action through the same motor nerve , while the olfactory nerves constitute the afferent ...
... action takes place , in which the afferent nerves are the optic , the efferent , the facial . When a bad smell causes a grimace , there is a reflex action through the same motor nerve , while the olfactory nerves constitute the afferent ...
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... actions . That is to say , an action may require all our attention and all our volition for its first , or second , or third performance , but by frequent repetition it becomes , in a manner , part of our organisation , and is performed ...
... actions . That is to say , an action may require all our attention and all our volition for its first , or second , or third performance , but by frequent repetition it becomes , in a manner , part of our organisation , and is performed ...
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... actions into more or less unconscious , or reflex , operations . It may be laid down as a rule , that if any two mental states be called up together , or in succession , with due frequency and vividness , the subsequent production of ...
... actions into more or less unconscious , or reflex , operations . It may be laid down as a rule , that if any two mental states be called up together , or in succession , with due frequency and vividness , the subsequent production of ...
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... action , and that deteriorated conditions tend to deprave human action . No Freewillist ever expects as much from St. Giles's as he expects from Belgravia : he admits an hereditary nervous system as a datum for the will , though he ...
... action , and that deteriorated conditions tend to deprave human action . No Freewillist ever expects as much from St. Giles's as he expects from Belgravia : he admits an hereditary nervous system as a datum for the will , though he ...
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... action of the will that causes the unconscious habit ; it is the continual effort of the beginning that creates the hoarded energy of the end ; it is the silent toil of the first generation that becomes the transmitted aptitude of the ...
... action of the will that causes the unconscious habit ; it is the continual effort of the beginning that creates the hoarded energy of the end ; it is the silent toil of the first generation that becomes the transmitted aptitude of the ...
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