 If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first task of life is to live. Men begin with acts, not with thoughts. Every moment brings necessities which...  Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals - Side 3av William Graham Sumner - 2007 - 704 siderBegrenset visning - Om denne boken
 | Francis Stuart Chapin - 1913 - 342 sider
...Every moment brings necessities which must often be satisfied at once. Early men experienced need, and it was followed at once by a blundering effort to satisfy it. For example, mere instinct could not be depended upon to solve the problem of a warlike expedition.... | |
 | Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess - 1917 - 904 sider
...live. They began with acts, not with thoughts. Every moment brought necessities which must be satisfied at once. Need was the first experience, and it was followed at once by blundering efforts to satisfy it. The method is that of trial and failure, which produces repeated... | |
 | Leon Carroll Marshall - 1918 - 1130 sider
...live. Men begin with acts, not with thoughts. Every moment brings necessities which must be satisfied at once. Need was the first experience, and it was followed at once 1 Adapted by permission from WG Sumner, Folkways, pp. 2-6, 28-46, 53-60. (Ginn & Co., 1913.) by a blundering... | |
 | Herbert Newhard Shenton - 1923 - 272 sider
...Graham Sumner in his Folkways says : "Men begin with acts and end with thoughts." His thesis is that "need was the first experience, and it was followed at once by a blundering effort to satisfy it." He is impressed with the fact that "if we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1925 - 1172 sider
...with Mr. Bryan or other fundamentalists, but I find it necessary to assume, as Professor Sumner says, "It is generally taken for granted that men inherited some guiding instincts from their beast ancestors." Man also inherited the rude method of trial and error, and he developed the faculty of... | |
 | Jerome Davis, Harry Elmer Barnes - 1927 - 964 sider
...different ways of meeting the life situations naturally develop. 7. What is meant by saying that " Need was the first experience, and it was followed at once by a blundering effort to satisfy it."? Do modern psychologists agree on this entirely? QUESTIONS FOB DISCUSSION 1. How are we to account for... | |
 | Emory Stephen Bogardus - 1928 - 698 sider
...live. Men begin with acts, not with thoughts. Every moment brings necessities which must be satisfied at once. Need was the first experience, and it was...although it has never been proved. If there were such an inheritance, they controlled and aided the first efforts to satisfy needs. Analogy makes it easy... | |
 | Emory Stephen Bogardus - 1928 - 680 sider
...live. Men begin with acts, not with thoughts. Every moment brings necessities which must be satisfied at once. Need was the first experience, and it was...blundering effort to satisfy it. It is generally taken fo r granted that men inherited some guiding instincts from their beast ancestry, and it may be true,... | |
 | Frederick Elmore Lumley - 1928 - 590 sider
...live. Men begin with acts, not with thoughts. Every moment brings necessities which must be satisfied at once. Need was the first experience, and it was...followed at once by a blundering effort to satisfy it. This is a scientific observation and inference. It can be supported by the further inference that man... | |
 | Kimball Young - 1927 - 884 sider
...unbearable. (Consult section n) 22. The Folkways and Mores ' Men begin with acts, not with thoughts. Need was the first experience, and it was followed...some guiding instincts from their beast ancestry. If there were such inheritances, they controlled and aided the first efforts to satisfy needs. Experiments... | |
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