Date: 1892, 1899
"The flowing life of the mind is sorted into parcels suitable for presentation in the recitation-room, and chopped up into supposed 'processes' with long Greek and Latin names, which in real life have no distinct existence."
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Date: 1892, 1899
"But be our conceptions adequate or inadequate, and be our stock of them large or small, they are all we have to work with."
preview | full record— James, William (1842-1910)
Date: 1892, 1899
"The more adequate the stock of ideas, the more 'able' is the man, the more uniformly appropriate is his behavior likely to be."
preview | full record— James, William (1842-1910)
Date: 1892, 1899
"This mental escort which the mind supplies is drawn, of course, from the mind's ready-made stock."
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Date: 1900
"Then from this hour deep on my heart engraved / Be all my duty needful."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1900
"Who stamped us with the minting die / Of this unconquerable need / To know the unknown Deity / And name the nameless in a creed?"
preview | full record— Money-Coutts, Francis Burdett Thomas, 5th Lord Latimer (1852-1923)
Date: 1900
"Whence comes our instinct, that behind / The flimsy furniture of sense / Inheres the undiscovered Mind / From which the world had emanence?"
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Date: 1900
"And hearts responsive to the sound / Insidious, of persuasive sin, / Must carry, like the garden-ground, / A welcome for what grows therein."
preview | full record— Money-Coutts, Francis Burdett Thomas, 5th Lord Latimer (1852-1923)
Date: 1900
"Had Eve possessed a soul like sand, / Without a taint of aught decayed, / Unfructifiable as land / Whereon no herbs nor forests fade, // Then her Betrayer would have sought / An acquiescent ear in vain."
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Date: 1900
"When by the wind of Thought is stirred / Obscure Religion, throned in mist, / 'She has not said her final word' / Declares the staunch apologist."
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