Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, Religion and Education, Volumen 1D. Appleton, 1904 One of the earliest monographs devoted exclusively to comprehensive issues of adolescence. |
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abnormal activity adolescence adult animals Anthropometry arrest average become body bones boys brain cause cells cent changes child chlorosis chorea crime criminal curve defect dementia diseases early eighteen ephebic epilepsy erethic especially excessive feeling female fifteen fourteen function girls girth greatest grow growth habits heart hebephrenia heredity higher human ideal impulse increase increment individual influence insanity instinct interest juvenile katatonic later less male mammæ marked masturbation maturity measurements menstruation ment mental mind moral morbid motor movements muscles muscular nature nervous neurasthenia normal organs ovaries ovum passion perhaps period physical play precocious psychic psychology psychoses puberty pubescent race recapitulation theory seems senescence sense seventeen sex organs sexual sixteen slowly Socrates sometimes soul stage suggests suicide symptoms teens thinks thirteen thought tion twelve twenty uterus weight young youth
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Página 559 - I said to myself, left stranded at the commencement of my voyage, with a well-equipped ship and a rudder, but no sail ; without any real desire for the ends which I had been so carefully fitted out to work for: no delight in virtue, or the general good, but also just as little in anything else. The fountains of vanity and ambition seemed to have dried up within me, as completely as those of benevolence.
Página 559 - I was thus, as I said to myself, left stranded at the commencement of my voyage, with a well-equipped ship and a rudder, but no sail...
Página 533 - A lad, whose passions are not strong enough in youth to mislead him from that path of science which his tutors, and not his inclinations, have ! chalked out, by four or five years perseverance may probably obtain every | advantage and honour his college can bestow.
Página 514 - They are passionate, irascible and apt to be carried away by their impulses. They are the slaves too of their passion, as their ambition prevents their ever brooking a slight and renders them indignant at the mere idea of enduring an injury.
Página 370 - Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside, And naked on the Air of Heaven ride, Were't not a Shame - were't not a Shame for him In this clay carcase crippled to abide?
Página 559 - I became persuaded that my love of mankind, and of excellence for its own sake, had worn itself out. I sought no comfort by speaking to others of what I felt. If I had loved any one sufficiently to make confiding my griefs a necessity, I should not have been in the condition I was.
Página xv - Never has youth been exposed to such dangers of both perversion and arrest as in our own land and day. Increasing urban life with its temptations, prematurities, sedentary occupations, and passive stimuli just when an active, objective life is most needed, early emancipation and a lessening sense for both duty and discipline, the haste to know and do all befitting man's estate before its time...
Página 558 - Hardly anything had power to cause me even a few minutes' oblivion of it. For some months the cloud seemed to grow thicker and thicker. The lines in Coleridge's "Dejection" — I was not then acquainted with them — exactly describe my case: — A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief In word, or sigh, or tear.
Página 567 - ... till he became more and more " unable to care for or think of soul but as in an actual body " ; comforted in the contemplation of death by the thought of flesh turning to violets and almost oppressed by the pressure of the sensible world, his longings for beauty intensifying his fear of death. He loved to gaze on dead faces in the Paris Morgue, although the haunt of them made the sunshine sickly for days, and his long fancy that they had not really gone nor were quite motionless, but led a secret,...
Página 131 - Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. They have built all the roads, cities, and machines in the world, written all the books, spoken all the words, and, in fact, done everything that man has accomplished with matter.