Man an Organic Community, Vol. 2 of 2

Angebote / Angebote:

Excerpt from Man an Organic Community, Vol. 2 of 2: Being an Exposition of the Law That the Human Personality in All Its Phases in Evolution, Both Co-Ordinate and Discordinate, Is the Multiple of Many Sub-Personalities From this genial fulness of the social life, others gravitate to every possible shade of intense oneness of the mental manifestation. Their other mental impulses are slighted or hastily fulfilled, and the full force of the individual mind is devoted to the special impulse. Even this concentration of the energy within a given range does not preclude the healthy exposition of the other faculties, though they only retain a subdued place in the psychical life of the individual, but when the special penchant obtrudes on every thought, commands the powers of the mind in its waking and dreaming states, then the co-ordinate mental harmony is overturned, some faculties become atrophied or pass into reversionary phases, and the unity and stability of the being is deranged. There is not a mental or even bodily faculty but may thus be made to predominate. N 0 man can exclusively apply his bodily forces to physical culture but the integrity. Of the mental powers is thwarted, and much that he gains in muscle is at the expense of the higher nervous tensions. Still more is this degradation marked when the devotion of the soul is expended on the gratification of the stomach. With some, this leading impulse takes the form of personal estimation, pride of position, of in¿uence, of wealth, of person - mere futile vanity. When it finds vent in the higher moral sympathies - in art, in poetry, in vaulting ambition that knows no other let - we can but look on and wonder. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.