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...superiority of position, skill, tech- nical ability, and command of tools, mechanical or fiscal. So far as the relations of parent and child, teacher ... ...ns two points in a common notion about habits: their iden- tification with mechanical and external modes of action to the neglect of mental and moral ... ...d to its maximum possibility. The short-sighted method which falls back on mechanical routine and repeti- tion to secure external efficiency of habit,... ...rec- ognize in the presence of these enormous differences of endowment the dynamic values of natural inequalities of growth, and utilize them, preferr... ...e excluded scientific discov- eries, in spite of the fact that in the last analysis security of social progress depends upon them. For scientific men ... ...ri- ence having a purpose. In the concrete, the value of rec- ognizing the dynamic place of interest in an educative development is that it leads to c... ...onsequences; (iii) a careful survey (examination, inspection, exploration, analysis) of all attainable con- sideration which will define and clarify t... ...if the pupils make their statements and explanations in a certain form of “analysis,” their mental habits will in time conform. 177 John Dewey Nothin...

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...sion on the other), and had re duced it to rules, grounded on the logical analysis of a sen tence. These rules he strongly impressed upon me, and to... ...ery considerable attainments and general powers, with a decided genius for mechanical art. His wife, a daughter of the celebrated chemist, Dr. Fordyce... ...mena by the law of association, com mended itself to me at once as a real analysis, and made me feel by contrast the insufficiency of the merely verb... ...s, of Locke. It was at this very time that my father commenced writing his Analysis of the Mind, which carried Hartley’s mode of explaining the mental... ...ncapable of my usual occupations. I went on 81 John Stuart Mill with them mechanically, by the mere force of habit. I had been so drilled in a certai... ...parate effects as the joint effect. But is this a legiti mate process? In dynamics, and in all the mathematical branches of physics, it is; but in so... ...ike this was pointed out as one of the distinctions be tween chemical and mechanical phenomena, in the intro duction to that favourite of my boyhood...

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...here of beauty, music, color! What resources of imagination, construction, analysis and absolute art! One might almost sympathize with Sarah Helen Whi... ...rs afterward Professor Clarke thus wrote: “While the other boys wrote mere mechanical verses, Poe wrote genuine poetry; the boy was a born poet. As a ... ...has two of the prime qualities of genius, a faculty of vigorous yet minute analysis, and a wonderful fecundity of imagi- 16 Poe in Five V olumes nati... ...he pre- dominating quality of his mind, to which we have before al- luded, analysis. It is this which distinguishes the artist. His mind at once reach... ...altogether on our experimental knowledge of the properties of air, and the mechanical laws regulating its dilation and com- pression, in what may be c... ...mplicated application must be made of some unusually profound principle in dynamics. “So well satisfied, however, was Mr. Mason of the ultimate su...

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...imple personal elements, as we decompose a force in a question of abstract dynamics. The larger motives are all unknown to him; he had not understood ... ... un- congenial and unmeaning business! He shrank from the very look of the mechanical in life; all should, if possible, be sweetly spontaneous and swi... ...hen it became needful to support his family, he returned patiently to this mechanical art – a step more than worthy of himself. The pencils seem to ha... ...per romance out of his own head, instead of merely copying an old one with mechanical right hand? The rest of the winter was not uneventful for the ga... ...cult for him to set aside this weak scruple of loyalty. The lantern of his analysis did not always shine with a very serviceable light; but he had the...

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...sen- sual impulses permanently— Probable subconscious influences involved— Mechanical scheme for repre- senting permanent alteration in character— Cha... ...e, when the demand for its literature is great enough for insincere stuff, mechanically produced for the market, to be to a certain extent supplied by... ...ely removed, as dead flesh is removed from living tissue. To assist in the analysis of fear and in the de- nunciation of its expressions, I have coine... ...naugurate pure and lofty thinking may at first seem difficult, even almost mechanical, but perseverance will at length render it easy, then pleasant, ... ...a Conversion de Saint Augustine, Paris, Fischbacher, 1900) has shown by an analysis of Augustine’s writings immediately af- ter the date of his conver... ...re and volition make their sallies. They are in short the cen- tres of our dynamic energy, whereas the cold parts leave us indifferent and passive in ... ...nd [320] Above, pp. 25, 26. 461 William James their will. The evidence is dynamic; the God or spirit moves the very organs of their body.[324] [324] ... ...about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. For this reason, t... ...ring institution and belief that my previous lectures have opened, the dry analysis to which I now advance may appear to many of you like an anti-clim...

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...racter, for instance, that could employ the fiftieth part of that profound analysis which has been ap- plied to Hamlet, to Falstaff, to Lear, to Othel... ...nton. Verse for verse, any one thousand lines of a transla- tion so purely mechanical might stand against any other thou- sand; and so far the equatio... ...sion. The elements are nothing without the atmosphere that moulds, and the dynamic forces that combine. Now Hazlitt’s brilliancy is seen chiefly in se... ...nd court sermons, he will have some adequate idea of the sterility and the mechanical for- mality which at that era spread the sleep of death over Ger...