Some psychological morning Premier Martin will get up and rub out "Liberal" after his name, buy a big farm and set up as a National Progressive.
And I hazarded our lives, perhaps, if you please, on a psychological guess that I had convinced our mutineers that we had an inexhaustible stock of illuminators in reserve.
The reason she advanced was the psychological effect such sounds of revelry would have on the starving mutineers.
Daniel Deronda, as usual, shows brilliant literary skill in many passages, and its insight into modern Hebraism is a psychological problem.
If Aristotle himself had written a dull psychological tragedy, we might read it for his sake, but we should not forgive him, and we ought not to forgive him.
By the bye, this catalogue, strange as it may appear, is not insusceptible of a sound psychological commentary.
But this fundamental idea he overbuilt with a heavy mass of mere notions, and psychological acts of arbitrary reflection.
It has not been my purpose, in the present volume, to attempt a general history of magic and alchemy, or a scientific inquiry into their psychological aspects.
It is impossible, I think, to overrate their psychological interest.
To pounce upon him at the psychological moment, to discover in whose cool and cobwebby cellar he is dreaming out his golden summer of manhood--that is what a foreigner can never, never hope to achieve, without competent local aid.
Science being one thing, and public order another, the most enlightened of legislators may well tremble to engraft the fruits of modern psychological research upon the tree of law, lest the scion prove too vigorous for the aged vegetable.
See New York Medical Gazette and Quarterly Journal ofPsychological Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence, January, 1869, p.
Medical Press and Circular; also Quarterly Journal of Psychological Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence, vol.
The subject of the foregoing chapter is so intimately connected with the phenomena of dreaming, and I have expressed my views in regard to it at such length, that but few psychological points remain to be considered in the present discussion.
This part of the story is, however, essential to the psychological interest of it.
Everywhere we note a tendency to look below the appearance of things, and to fathom the depths of psychological analysis.
At the moment, by a curious psychological turn, a feature of another problem seized me; it was like playing two games of chess at once.
Importance of the study of these despised superstitions to philological, ethnological, and psychological science, as well as to the sound philosophical interpretation of general history.
In looking at this lizard-guard at the mouth of hell we may realise that it has been by some principle of psychological selection that the reptilian kingdom gradually gained supremacy in these portrayals of the repulsive.
Only as what I believed right solutions were given to their problems were my sphinxes laid; but through this psychological experience it appeared that when one was so laid his or her legion disappeared also.
Such a Protest, the most important transaction in Life, may that same Indignation and Defiance, in a psychological point of view, be fitly called.
Not without reason have the later schools of evolutionary thought, who developed the psychological and vitalistic side of his doctrine, called themselves Neo-Lamarckians.
Everything goes to prove it--his constant preoccupation with psychological questions, his tacit assimilation of organ-formation to instinctive behaviour, his constant insistence on the importance of besoin and habitude.
Let us not forget that he pointed out the essentially psychological moment implied in all processes of individual adaptation.
This is an entirely psychological notion and cannot be applied to a purely material system.
Butler's theory then is essentially a bold and enlightened Lamarckism, completed and rounded off by the conception that heredity too is a psychological process, of the same nature as memory.
The psychological anatomy of Jacques and Fernande in the early days of their marriage seems quite preternaturally true--I mean that her power of describing it is preternatural.
But I am unable to alter anything in relation to the delineation or development of character, as my stories always grow out of my psychological conception of the dramatis personae.
I'm on a review for the Yale now; and the new Century has asked me for a psychological analysis of the Younger Generation.
She must be the most remarkable psychological study of the age.
I have, I think, followed intelligently your psychological involutions and convolutions so far.
Those who wish to prosecute psychological and ethical studies should come to Rome.
The psychological enigma presented by Pius can only be solved by looking steadily at the two root-ideas, which interpenetrate and supplement one another in his mind.
He was gifted with a profound psychological insight into character, which he knew how to express with almost incredible simplicity and directness.
And this is the reason why psychological studies of the abnormal, or biographies of criminal lunatics, are only interesting to pathologists and never become classics in literature.
Yet, whatever may be the case in the countries of the West, in Russia the ruling classes, the gentry and the capitalists, clearly failed in the psychological test at the critical time.
Steward possessed such abundant faith in this purelypsychological check on the employer that he made it the cornerstone of his theory of social progress.
He draws no psychological distinction between paederast and paederast.
These writers are not concerned with the framing of codes, nor again with the psychological diagnosis of accused persons.
It is not their business to investigate the psychological condition of persons submitted to the action of the laws.
The bare fact that ancient Greece tolerated, and that modern Europe refuses to tolerate sexual inversion, can have nothing to do with the etiology, the pathology, the psychological definition of the phenomenon in its essence.
It will appear in the sequel that whatever may be thought about his psychological hypothesis, the nomenclature he has adopted is useful in discussion, and corresponds to well-defined phenomena, of which we have abundant information.
Lastly, he refuses to face the aspects of this psychological anomaly which are forced upon the student of ancient Hellas.
We have therefore to expect from it no delicate distinctions, no anthropological investigations, no psychological analysis, and no spirit of toleration.
If a criminal act be proved, the psychological condition of the agent is legally indifferent--unless it can be shown that he was clearly mad and irresponsible, in which case he may be consigned to a lunatic asylum instead of a jail.
The new school of anthropologists andpsychological physicians study sexual inversion partly on the lines of historical evolution, and partly from the point of view of disease.
A scientific investigator ought not to take changes of public opinion into account when he is analysing a psychological peculiarity.
Students will therefore expect from his pages no profound psychological speculations and no idealistic presentation of an eminently repulsive subject.
He leaves us where we were about the psychological and ethical problem.
I don't feel at liberty to give you the details before they come out at the proper time and place; but there's no harm in saying that my analysis of the old woman's psychological state was not so very far wrong.
He stopped abruptly, confronting, as it were, that bewildering void which a psychological situation invariably seemed to him.
She had to explain Ford's moral development and psychological state all over again, until he could see it with some measure of comprehension.
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