 | Charles Darwin - 1871 - 554 pagine
...happy to be in their company. So it is with ourselves. A man who possessed no trace of such feelings would be an unnatural monster. On the other hand,...weaker feeling than the desire : many a thief, if not an habitual one, after success has wondered why he stole some article. Thus, as man cannot prevent... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1871 - 432 pagine
...happy to' be in their company. So it is with ourselves. A man who possessed no trace of such feelings would be an unnatural monster. On the other hand,...weaker feeling than the desire ; many a thief, if not an habitual one, after success has wondered why he stole some article. Thus, as man cannot prevent... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1871 - 468 pagine
...is with ourselves. A man who possessed no trace of such feelings would be an unnatural monster. Oa the other hand, the desire to satisfy hunger, or any...weaker feeling than the desire : many a thief, if not an habitual one, after success has wondered why he stole some article. Thus, as man cannot prevent... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - 1872 - 356 pagine
...more persistent instincts.' And this quotation is preceded, two pages earlier, by these words, — ' The wish for another man's property is, perhaps, as persistent a desire as any that can be named,' 1. p. 90. Neither a good morality nor a doctrine of personal obligation can rest on this basis. 5.... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - 1874 - 328 pagine
...more persistent instincts.' And this quotation is preceded, two pages earlier, by these words, — ' The wish for another man's property is, perhaps, as persistent a desire as any that can be named,' I. p. 90. Neither a good morality nor a doctrine of personal obligation can rest on this basis. 5.... | |
 | William Kingdon Clifford - 1879 - 178 pagine
...has often been remarked, of any suffering. The instinct of self-preservation is not felt except in presence of danger; and many a coward has thought...weaker feeling than the desire. Many a thief, if not an habitual one, after success has wondered why he stole some article. ' Thus, as man cannot help old... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1879 - 136 pagine
...is best for him to obey his more persistent instincts." But in the same connection he affirms that " the wish for another man's property is perhaps as persistent a desire as any that can be named." 2 Two pages before the first of these sentences, I find the second one. The context shows that instinct... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1879 - 190 pagine
...best for him to obey his more persistent instincts." But, in the same connection, he aflirms that " the wish for another man's property is, perhaps, as persistent a desire as any that can be named." — (De, scent of Man, Am. ed., Vol. I. pp. 88 and 89.) Two pages before the first of these sentences... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1879 - 302 pagine
...pains or pleasures arising from it. Darwin affirms, concerning that part of its power, only that " the satisfaction of actual possession is generally a weaker feeling than the desire of possession." He thus implicitly admits that sometimes it is not a weaker feeling than the desire.... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1879 - 302 pagine
...pains or pleasures arising from it. -Darwin affirms, concerning that part of its power, only that " the satisfaction of actual possession is generally a weaker- feeling than the desire of possession." He thus implicitly admits that sometimes it is not a weaker feeling thau the desire.... | |
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A man who possessed no trace of such instincts would be an unnatural monster. On the other hand, the desire to satisfy hunger, or any passion such as vengeance, is in its nature temporary, and can for a time be fully satisfied. Nor is it easy, perhaps... 
