 | Mark A. Runco - 2010 - 505 pages
...causes in the generations he descended from. If there is to be anything like a real explanation of those changes, it must be sought in that aggregate of conditions out of which both he and they have arisen. — William James, 1880 Zeitgeist may either facilitate creative work and discovery or inhibit them.... | |
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...the current state of cannibal music. "Even were we to grant the absurd supposition that the genius of the great man does not depend on the antecedents furnished by the society he is born in," said Spencer, "there would still be the quite sufficient facts that he is powerless in the absence... | |
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If there is to be anything like a real explanation of these changes, it must be sought in that aggregate of conditions out of which both he and they have arisen. 
