In other words, those races of beings only can have survived in which, on the average, agreeable or desired feelings went along with activities conducive to the maintenance of life, while disagreeable and habitually-avoided feelings went along with activities... An Epitome of the Synthetic Philosophy - Page 214by Frederick Howard Collins - 1889 - 18 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1910 - 692 pages
...quickly disappear through persistence in the injurious and avoidance of the beneficial. In other words, those races of beings only can have survived in which,...life; and there must ever have been, other things equal, the most useful and long-continued survivals among races in which these adjustments of feelings... | |
| Samuel Jackson Holmes - 1911 - 318 pages
...quickly disappear through persistence in the injurious and avoidance of the beneficial. In other words, those races of beings only can have survived in which,...life; and there must ever have been, other things equal, the most useful and long-continued survivals among races in which these adjustments of feelings... | |
| Charles Frederick D'Arcy - 1912 - 328 pages
...quickly disappear through persistence in the injurious, and avoidance of the beneficial. In other words, those races of beings only can have survived in which,...with activities directly or indirectly destructive of life."1 "At the very outset life is maintained by persistence in acts which conduce to it, and desistance... | |
| Harry Waton - 1919 - 146 pages
...quickly disappear through persistence in the injurious and avoidance of the beneficial. In other words, those races of beings only can have survived in which,...life; and there must ever have been, other things equal, the most numerous and long-continued survivals among races in which these adjustments of feelings... | |
| Josef Brožek - 1984 - 348 pages
...between psychological and biological evolution came through the feelings. In Spencer's words, . . . those races of beings only can have survived in which,...life; and there must ever have been, other things equal, the most numerous and long-continued survivals among the races in which these adjustments of... | |
| Burton F. Porter - 2001 - 336 pages
...therefore, perfectly adjusted to each other, which is a fortunate occurrence for as Spencer wrote, "those races of beings only can have survived in which,...to the maintenance of life, while disagreeable and habitually avoided feelings went along with activities directly or indirectly destructive of life."... | |
| Aristotelian Society (Great Britain) - 1901 - 252 pages
...quickly disappear through persistence in the injurious and avoidance of the beneficial. In other \vords, those races of beings only can have survived in which,...activities directly or indirectly destructive of life " (Princ. Psych., vol. i, p. 280). 19. It is an inevitable corollary from the Theory of Evolution tlmt... | |
| Washington Academy of Sciences (Washington, D.C.) - 1914 - 724 pages
...quickly disappear through persistence in the injurious and avoidance of the beneficial. In other words, those races of beings only can have survived, in which,...to the maintenance of life, while disagreeable and habitually avoided feelings went along with activities directly or indirectly destructive of life;... | |
| Theodore Millon, Melvin J. Lerner - 2003 - 690 pages
...injurious to the organism, while pleasures are the correlatives of actions conducive to its welfare. of impressions they convey? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52, 303-315. habitually avoided feelings went along with activities directly or indirectly destructive of life.... | |
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