| John Michels (Journalist) - 1887 - 670 Seiten
...He calls habit the ' йу-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent,' and claims that " it is well for the world that in most of us, by the...has set like plaster, and will never soften again." The decade between twenty and thirty is found to be the critical one in the formation of intellectual... | |
| John Michels (Journalist) - 1887 - 702 Seiten
...He calls habit the ' fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent,' and claims that " it is well for the world that in most of us, by the...has set like plaster, and will never soften again." The decade between twenty and thirty is found to be the critical one in the formation of intellectual... | |
| John Michels (Journalist) - 1887 - 660 Seiten
...He calls habit the ' fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent,' and claims that " it is well for the world that in most of us, by the...has set like plaster, and will never soften again." The decade between twenty and thirty is found to be the critical one in the formation of intellectual... | |
| John Michels (Journalist) - 1887 - 662 Seiten
...He calls habit the ' fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent,' and claims that " it is well for the world that in most of us, by the...has set like plaster, and will never soften again." The decade between twenty and thirty is found to be the critical one in the formation of intellectual... | |
| William James - 1892 - 508 Seiten
...man can by-and-by no more escape than his coat-sleeve can suddenly fall into a new set of folds. COn the whole, it is best he should not escape. It is...has set like plaster, and will never soften again.) (The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.... | |
| 1892 - 708 Seiten
...unconscious habits. " Habit is the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It is well for the world that in most of us, by the...has set like plaster, and will never soften again " (I. 121). Indeed, there could be no more effective supplement to the religious and ethical exercises... | |
| Arthur Dayton Cromwell - 1895 - 162 Seiten
...ways of the 'shop,' in a word, from which the man can by-and-by no more escape than his coat sleeve can suddenly fall into a new set of folds. On the whole, it is best he should not escape. It is well tor the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will... | |
| 1898 - 780 Seiten
...which evoked them become embedded or organized in the centers of the motor areas." James says: "For the most of us by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again." He goes on to say, "If the period between twenty and thirty is the critical one in the formation of... | |
| Edwin Herbert Lewis, Lewis, Edwin Hebert - 1899 - 442 Seiten
...escape than his coat-sleeve can suddenly fall into a new set of folds. On the whole, it is best he 25 should not escape. It is well for the world that in...has set like plaster, and will never soften again. FORBEARANCE RALPH WALDO EMERSON Hast thou named all the birds without a gun? Loved the wood-rose, and... | |
| 1899 - 726 Seiten
...may be the choicest possible and most fitting to the child in question.—Gorton. AT twenty-five or thirty the character has "set" like plaster and will never soften again. If proper habits have been formed, success is assured, and vice versa. Henceforth development will... | |
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