 Yet although the ox has so little affection for, or individual interest in, his fellows, he cannot endure even a momentary severance from his herd. If he be separated from it by stratagem or force, he exhibits every sign of mental agony ; he strives with...  The Principles of Psychology - Page 431by William James - 1908Full view - About this book
 | 1884 - 1442 pages
...he is separated from it by stratagem or he exhibits every sign of mental agony ; he strives with all might to get back again, and when he succeeds he plunges...to bathe his whole body with the comfort of closest ipanionship." was found very difficult to procure animals capable of actthe part of fore-oxen to the... | |
 | Sir Francis Galton - 1883 - 434 pages
...individual interest in, his fellows, he cannot endure even a momentary severance from his herd. If he be separated from it by stratagem or force, he exhibits...whole body with the comfort of closest companionship. This passionate terror at segregation is a convenience to the herdsman, who may rest assured in the... | |
 | Francis Galton - 1883 - 422 pages
...force, he exhibits__fixfiry_sign of mental agony; he strives with all his might to geiHJSclragainyand when he succeeds, he plunges into its middle to bathe...whole body with the comfort of closest companionship. This passionate terror at segregation is a convenience to the herdsman, who may rest assured in the... | |
 | 1887 - 902 pages
...or interest in, his fellows, he can not endure even a momentary separation from his herd. If he be separated from it by stratagem or force, he exhibits...altogether without a parallel in our own constitution. We can not meet strangers without a certain tension, or talk to them exactly as to our familiars. This... | |
 | Alexander Sutherland - 1898 - 508 pages
...more varied life ". Yet " the ox cannot endure even a momentary separation from his herd. If he be separated from it by stratagem or force, he exhibits...sign of mental agony ; he strives with all his might and main to get back again, and when he succeeds, he plunges into its middle to bathe his whole body... | |
 | Joseph William Lester Jones - 1903 - 596 pages
...herd. He strives with all his might and main to get back, and when he succeeds, he plunges into the middle to bathe his whole body with the comfort of closest companionship." It is this felt need of the life together, which has sprung up with the social relationship and grown... | |
 | Stanton Coit - 1910 - 124 pages
...individual interest in his fellows, he cannot endure even a momentary severance from his herd. If he be separated from it by stratagem or force, he exhibits...whole body with the comfort of closest companionship." We find, then, that in the animal creation, from the ox up through savage tribes to the highest spiritual... | |
 | Arnold Gesell, Beatrice Chandler Gesell - 1912 - 360 pages
...terror. He strives with all his might and main to get back, and when he succeeds he plunges into the middle, to bathe his whole body with the comfort of closest companionship." In children we should call it cuddling up. But simple gregariousness does not insure a Utopian commonwealth.... | |
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