Word: bain
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Philosophy 4 the text-book will be Spencer's Principles of Psychology, instead of Bain's works, as advertised. This change is rendered necessary by the impossibility of obtaining the latter books...
...Bain, H. B. Fiske...
Letter-Writing III. would probably be a much more difficult course than either of the others, and would require a thorough knowledge of rhetoric, and of Bain's mental science. The text-book should be Smith's "Epistolary Communication between a Gentleman and his Trades-people." A student having taken this course would be prepared to write such a charming note to any one of his creditors, that he (the creditor) would not only cease asking him for the money, but would offer to pay up the sum in question on the receipt of another letter of a like nature...
...intimately with body, and make it so dependent upon the body for its action, that we cannot see how it could exist after or without it. The study of actions, as far as it tends to a better knowledge of the mind, is advantageous; but in some cases Mr. Bain seems to reduce the mind to those actions, or, rather, to consider mental phenomena the same as those of the body, except in degree...
...pain, and that a feeling of right or duty was never considered in men's actions. There is in every man's nature something which calls for higher springs of action and exerts a more powerful influence than mere pleasure or pain; and to account for these as Mr. Bain does is to annihilate all sense of obligation, and to appeal to the sensualistic feelings which we have in common with the brute. All the world unite in praising one who sacrifices his self-interest in support of what he believes to be the truth; but our author charges...