Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1919. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... VI MISCELLANEOUS NOTES DOES your new religion help toward a larger and freer life, toward more good-will and tolerance, toward a keener appreciation of the world in which we are placed, toward a wider outlook and deeper and saner human relations? It will help toward these things just in the degree in which it springs from these things. § The lower orders of animals act from impulse, not from thought. The bird builds its nest from impulse, incubates from impulse or inherited disposition, migrates from impulse, and weans its young from impulse. Man acts from both impulse and thought. He thinks about his acts. Thought in him governs or controls impulse. He has an impulse to wed and breed, but he stops to think about it, and to plan for it. The sexual instinct sometimes masters him and he assaults the female like a brute animal, but on the whole he keeps it under control. The migrating impulse is strong in man as in other animals, but is more or less controlled. It is strong in the spring, but judgment often makes him wait till summer or fall to satisfy it. The impulse of fear often masters the lower animal and he runs away. The impulse of anger and revenge often masters him. In all these things the animal lets himself go; there is no restraining influence of mind or judgment. § Was Epictetus logical when he compared logic to a measure in which we measure corn or other grain? A bushel measure is an arbitrary standard agreed upon by the community using it; any other standard agreed upon would be as fair and just. But logic is not an arbitrary standard, that we could change at will; it is based upon the laws of the human mind. You cannot standardize vital things, only mechanical things. He is more logical when he says that to be blind in the reason,...
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