 Let a man early in life set himself the task of verifying such a theory as that of evolution, and facts will soon cluster and cling to him like grapes to their stem. Their relations to the theory will hold them fast; and the more of these the mind is...  Education from a National Standpoint - Sida 274efter Alfred Fouillée - 1892 - 332 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | William James - 1890 - 716 sidor
...brain with only a middling degree of physiological reteutiveness. Let a man early in life set himself the task of verifying such a theory as that of evolution,...theorist may have little, if any, desultory memory. Unutilizable facts may be unnoted bj him and forgotten as soon as heard. An ignorance, almost as encyclopaedic... | |
 | William James - 1890 - 716 sidor
...brain with only a middling degree of physiological retentiveness. Let a man early in life set himself the task of verifying such a theory as that of evolution,...theorist may have little, if any, desultory memory. Unutilizable facts may be unnoted by him and forgotten as soon as heard. An almost as encyclopaedic... | |
 | William James - 1900 - 328 sidor
...mind with only a middling degree of physiological retentiveness. Let a man early in life set himself the task of verifying such a theory as that of evolution,...theorist may have little, if any, desultory memory. Unutilizable facts may be unnoted by him, and forgotten as soon as heard. An ignorance almost as encyclopedic... | |
 | Robert Harvey Gault, Delton Thomas Howard - 1925 - 494 sidor
...incompatible with only a middling degree of physiological retentiveness. Let a man early in life set himself the task of verifying such a theory as that of evolution,...theorist may have little, if any, desultory memory." The Rate of Forgetting. — Experiments in memorizing have given us a "curve of forgetting" of which... | |
 | Edward Stevens Robinson - 1926 - 504 sidor
..."Let a man early in life set himself the task of verifying such a theory as that of evolution, and the facts will soon cluster and cling to him like grapes...theorist may have little, if any, desultory memory. Unutilizable facts may be unnoted by him, and forgotten as soon as heard. An ignorance almost as encyclopedic... | |
 | Edward Stevens Robinson - 1926 - 504 sidor
...naturally into the knowledge already possessed. Said Professor James: "Let a man early in life set himself the task of verifying such a theory as that of evolution, and the facts will soon cluster and cling to him like grapes to their stem. Their relations to the theory... | |
 | William James - 2007 - 709 sidor
...brain with only a middling degree of physiological retentiveness. Let a man early in life set himself the task of verifying such a theory as that of evolution, and facts will soon cluster and eliug to him like grapes to their stem. Their relations to the theory will hold them fast ; and the... | |
 | William James - 2008 - 152 sidor
...mind with only a middling degree of physiological retentiveness. Let a man early in life set himself the task of verifying such a theory as that of evolution,...theorist may have little, if any, desultory memory. Unutilizable facts may be unnoted by him, and forgotten as soon as heard. An ignorance almost as encyclopedic... | |
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