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" ... if the states of consciousness which a creature endeavours to maintain are the correlatives of injurious actions, and if the states of consciousness which it endeavours to expel are the correlatives of beneficial actions, it must quickly disappear... "
Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, Based on the Doctrine of Evolution, with ... - Page 331
by John Fiske - 1874
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The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1

Herbert Spencer - Psychology - 1870 - 704 pages
...equivalent phrase — a feeling which we seek to get out of consciousness and to keep out ; we see at once that, if the states of consciousness which a creature...injurious and avoidance of the beneficial. In other words, those races of beings only can have survived in which, on the average, agreeable or desired feelings...
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The Principles of Psychology: The data of psychology. The inductions of ...

Herbert Spencer - Psychology - 1870 - 658 pages
...equivalent phrase — a feeling which we seek to get out of consciousness and to keep out ; we see at once that, if the states of consciousness which a creature...injurious and avoidance of the beneficial. In other words, those races of beings only can have survived in which, on the average, agreeable or desired feelings...
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The Principles of psychology, Volume 1

Herbert Spencer - 1873 - 662 pages
...equivalent phrase — a feeling which we seek to get out of consciousness and to keep out ; we see at once that, if the states of consciousness which a creature...injurious and avoidance of the beneficial. In other words, those races of beings only can have survived in which, on the average, agreeable or desired feelings...
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The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1

Herbert Spencer - Psychology - 1873 - 660 pages
...equivalent phrase — a feeling which we seek to get out of consciousness and to keep out ; we see at once that, if the states of consciousness which a creature...actions, and if the states of consciousness which ifc endeavours to expel are the correlatives of beneficial actions, it must quickly disappear through...
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The North American Review, Volume 117

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1873 - 512 pages
...and to keep out." Hence it follows that " if the states of consciousness which a creature endeavors to maintain are the correlatives of injurious actions, and if the states of consciousness which it endeavors to expel are the correlatives of beneficial actions, it must quickly disappear through persistence...
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the north american

james r - 1873 - 520 pages
...and to 'keep out." Hence it follows that "if the states of consciousness which a creature endeavors to maintain are the correlatives of injurious actions, and if the states of consciousness which it endeavors to expel are the correlatives of beneficial actions, it must quickly disappear through persistence...
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Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, Based on the Doctrine of Evolution ..., Volume 2

John Fiske - Evolution - 1874 - 566 pages
...and to keep out." Hence it follows that "if the states of consciousness which a creature eiideavours to maintain are the correlatives of injurious actions,...the injurious and avoidance of the beneficial." In oilier words, even supposing a race of animals could come into existence, which should habitually seek...
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Mind, Volume 5

Electronic journals - 1880 - 616 pages
...equivalent phrase — a feeling which we seek to get out of consciousness and to keep out ; we see at once that, if the states of consciousness which a creature...persistence in the injurious and avoidance of the beneficial At the very outset, life is maintained by persistence in acts which conduce to it, and desistance from...
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The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1

Herbert Spencer - Psychology - 1876 - 660 pages
...equivalent phrase — a feeling which we seek to get out of consciousness and to keep out ; wo see at onco that, if the states of consciousness which a creature...states of consciousness which it endeavours to expel ai.e the correlatives of beneficial actions, it must quickly disappear through persistence in the injurious...
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The Data of Ethics, Issue 71

Herbert Spencer - Ethics - 1879 - 312 pages
...equivalent phrase — a feeling which we seek to get out of consciousness and to keep out ; we see at once that, if the states of consciousness which a creature...injurious and avoidance of the beneficial. In other words, those races of beings only can have survived in which, on the average, agreeable or desired feelings...
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