 | 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 362
...transformation of character seems to follow the physiological law stated by Dr. Carpenter, that the nervous system grows to the modes in which it has been exercised. When there is a longing or striving in a given direction, that very act predisposes the nervous system... | |
 | 1886 - عدد الصفحات: 982
...; so that it may endure to the end of life, like the scar of a wound." Dr. Carpenter's phrase, that our nervous system grows to the modes in which it has been exercised expresses the philosophy of habit in a nutshell. We may now trace some of the practical applications... | |
 | William James - 1887 - عدد الصفحات: 26
...; so that it may endure to the end of life, like the scar of a wound." Dr. Carpenter's phrase, that our nervous system grows to the modes in which it has been exercised expresses the philosophy of habit in a nutshell. We may now trace some of the practical applications... | |
 | George Edgeworth Fenwick, Thomas George Roddick, George Ross - 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 800
...remembered being, in fact, the functional excitement." The same idea is expressed by Dr. Carpenter, that our nervous system grows to the modes in which it has been exercised ; and he further remarks that it is " the universallyadmitted fact that any sequence of mental action... | |
 | Charles Hamilton Hughes - 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 796
...remembered being in fact the functional excitement." The same idea is expressed by Dr. Carpenter, that our nervous system grows to the modes in which it has been exercised; and he further remarks that it is "the universally-admitted fact that any sequence of mental action... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 950
...enforces the same idea and outlines the entire philosophy of habit in the following brief sentence, viz: " Our nervous system grows to the modes in which it has been exercised." It has been said that a child is a bundle of possibilities, and it may, with equal truthfulness, be... | |
 | Michigan. Department of Public Instruction - 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 584
...enforces the same idea and outlines the entire philosophy of habit in the following brief sentence, viz: " Our nervous system grows to the modes in which it has been exercised." It has been said that a child is a bundle of possibilities, and it may, with equal truthfulness, be... | |
 | William James - 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 80
...substitution; so that it may endure to the end of life, like the scar of a wound. " Dr. Carpenter's phrase that our nervous system grows to the modes in which it has been exercised expresses the philosophy of habit in a nutshell. We may now trace some of the practical applications... | |
 | William James - 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 716
...; so that it may endure to the end of life, like the scar of a wound." Dr. Carpenter's phrase that our nervous system grows to the modes in which it has been exercised expresses the philosophy of habit in a nutshell. We may now trace some of the practical applications... | |
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Dr. Carpenter's phrase that our nervous system grows to the modes in which it has been exercised expresses the philosophy of habit in a nutshell. 
