...much as by the decrease in frequency of proper occasions for fear. In civilized life, in particular, it has at last become possible for large numbers of...attack of mental disease to teach us the meaning of the word.1 It is only of late, however, that the full significance of this emotion as it operates in man's...

...worry habit, you can free yourself from it. Professor William James sayS that fear is conquerable; that it has at last become possible for large numbers of...pass from the cradle to the grave without ever having a pang of genuine fear. There is no doubt that fear and worry, those terrible evils that have so long...

...of the most popular philosophical writers of our generation, says with complacency : " In civilised life it has at last become possible for large numbers...grave without ever having had a pang of genuine fear ". Sir Oliver Lodge in the Hibbert Journal strikes much the same note. " As a matter of fact, the higher...

...to fear. — Professor James is responsible for the statement that "in civilized life in particular it has at last become possible for large numbers of...grave without ever having had a pang of genuine fear. ' ' 5 Nevertheless, as modified according to the principles already laid down in the early part of...

...to a degree, from the fact that "civilized life" had created a situation in which, in James's words, "it has at last become possible for large numbers...people to pass from the cradle to the grave without having had a pang of genuine fear" (2:1o34). In this interpretation of cultural realities, James found...

...comes from the patriarch of American psychology, William James, who said that civilized life makes it possible "for large numbers of people to pass from the cradle to grave without ever having had a pang of genuine fear." James implies that without the omnipresent sense...

...he shall now resolve to become. — W. James, 1890 246 2i. TERROR In civilized life, in particular, it has at last become possible for large numbers of...mental disease to teach us the meaning of the word. — W. James, 1890 247 22. EGYPTIAN HEAD He sat there like a sort of sculptured Egyptian cat or Peruvian...

...as by the decrease in frequency of proper occasions for fear ... In civilized life, in particular, it has at last become possible for large numbers of...grave without ever having had a pang of genuine fear." It may be true that we're a lot less likely than our forebears to face the horror of ending up as some...

...so much as by the decrease in frequency of proper occasion for fear. In civilized life in particular it has at last become possible for large numbers of...mental disease to teach us the meaning of the word. Hence the possibility of so much blindly optimistic philosophy and religion. The atrocities of life...