Education: Its Data and First Principles (1920)

Author:   Thomas Percy Nunn
Publisher:   Kessinger Publishing
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9781167091025


Pages:   236
Publication Date:   10 September 2010
Format:   Hardback
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE WILL TO LIVE Horme, as we have defined the term, is the basis of the activities that differentiate the living animal from dead matter and, therefore, of what we have described as the animal's characteristic attitude of independence towards its world. The sense in which independence is used here needs elucidation. No creature is independent of its world in the sense that it could exist apart from it; prevented from assimilating matter from the environment in the form of food, it would soon cease to live. We may go farther, and admit that the intimacy of the relations between a living organism and its environment is, as Dr. J. S. Haldane has pointed out, one of the main differences between it and a mere machine. Matter from the environment is constantly flowing into and out of the organism, being, in Dr. Haldane's vigorous phrase, only for a while caught up in the whirl of its bodily structure. And the same is true of an organism's psychical activities, which could neither develop nor be sustained unless it were in constant intercourse with the world about it. For instance, a great part of a man's psychical activity is evidently dependent upon intercourse with his fellows and would perish if he were isolated. Thus it may be said that the texture of man's mind, like that of his body, consists in what is from time to time caught up in the whirl of its structure in perception, in thought, in all the acts involved in the common social life. Nevertheless, every animal, so long as it is alive, continues to affirm or assert itself over against the world of which, fromanother point of view, it is merely a part. Even the least assertive of us must recognize that this attitude belongs to every moment of our conscious lives. In every act we say to our worl...

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Author:   Thomas Percy Nunn
Publisher:   Kessinger Publishing
Imprint:   Kessinger Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 22.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 15.20cm
Weight:   0.517kg
ISBN:  

9781167091025


ISBN 10:   1167091027
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   10 September 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Unknown
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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