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Gardner Murphy. expressed the different civilizations . Often it is hard to tell which is " higher , " just as it is hard to tell in the rich poetry of the Dakota Indian what is higher , what is lower , let us say , than in the poetry of ...
Gardner Murphy. expressed the different civilizations . Often it is hard to tell which is " higher , " just as it is hard to tell in the rich poetry of the Dakota Indian what is higher , what is lower , let us say , than in the poetry of ...
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... tell us what particular food a particular man will like - cheesecake , oys- ters , or spaghetti . Or suppose we know that they all love rhythm ; this does not tell us whether a given man will crave Bach or Ber- lioz , Gershwin or Irving ...
... tell us what particular food a particular man will like - cheesecake , oys- ters , or spaghetti . Or suppose we know that they all love rhythm ; this does not tell us whether a given man will crave Bach or Ber- lioz , Gershwin or Irving ...
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... tell us more about his unrealized potentials than can any norm prepared in any office . There will , indeed , develop in him in time a need to share experience with his fellows and with the men and women of other regions and other ...
... tell us more about his unrealized potentials than can any norm prepared in any office . There will , indeed , develop in him in time a need to share experience with his fellows and with the men and women of other regions and other ...
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Our Twentiethcentury Vantage Point | 3 |
The Invention of Culture | 47 |
How We Come to Want What We Want | 60 |
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achieve activity adaptive radiation appear arts aspects association psychology autisms basic become biological C. D. Broad canalization capacity cathexis century changes complex conception cosmic craving creative cultural curiosity depend discovered discovery drives emergence environment evolution example existence experience fact factors freedom fulfillment genes genetic give given goals Gordon Allport hard determinism herent homogamy human potentialities hypnosis ideas impulse individual integration intellectual interaction invention involved James Harvey Robinson Julian Huxley kind Kurt Lewin learning living man's mankind means ment mind modes mold move organization patterns period person physical possible principle problem psychoanalysis psychology reality relation response rhythms rigid satisfactions scientific sense sensitive sensory sheer simian social society specific structure things thinking thought three human natures tion tive trends tural ture types understanding World War II