Social Statics: Or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them DevelopedChapman, 1851 - 476 páginas |
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... gratification of a faculty is produced by its exercise . To be agreeable that exercise must be proportionate to the power of the faculty ; if it is insufficient discontent arises , and its excess produces weariness . Hence , to have ...
... gratification of a faculty is produced by its exercise . To be agreeable that exercise must be proportionate to the power of the faculty ; if it is insufficient discontent arises , and its excess produces weariness . Hence , to have ...
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... gratifications deriveable from it can hardly be carried too far . Others again maintain that already amongst the edu- cated classes mental excitements are taken in excess ; and that were more time given to a proper fulfilment of the ...
... gratifications deriveable from it can hardly be carried too far . Others again maintain that already amongst the edu- cated classes mental excitements are taken in excess ; and that were more time given to a proper fulfilment of the ...
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... gratification derived therefrom . Thus , the longings for food , for sleep , for warmth , are irresistible ; and quite independent of foreseen advantages . The continuance of the race is secured by others equally strong , whose dictates ...
... gratification derived therefrom . Thus , the longings for food , for sleep , for warmth , are irresistible ; and quite independent of foreseen advantages . The continuance of the race is secured by others equally strong , whose dictates ...
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... gratification from honest and fair dealing ; and which gives birth to the sentiment of justice . In bar of this conclusion it is indeed urged , that did there exist such an agency for controlling the behaviour of man to man , we should ...
... gratification from honest and fair dealing ; and which gives birth to the sentiment of justice . In bar of this conclusion it is indeed urged , that did there exist such an agency for controlling the behaviour of man to man , we should ...
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... gratification - tends to generate convictions that things are good or bad , according as they bring to it pleasure or pain ; and would always generate such convictions , were it unopposed . As however there is a perpetual conflict ...
... gratification - tends to generate convictions that things are good or bad , according as they bring to it pleasure or pain ; and would always generate such convictions , were it unopposed . As however there is a perpetual conflict ...
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