Ethnologische Studien zur ersten Entwicklung der Strafe: nebst einer psychologischen Abhandlung über Grausamkeit und Rachsucht, Bind 1

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S. C. Van Doesburgh, 1894 - 486 sider

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Side 122 - My theory, on the contrary, is that the bodily changes follow directly the perception of the exciting fact, and that our feeling of the same changes as they occur is the emotion.
Side 56 - If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among the most important of man's primitive functions, the fighting and the chasing instincts must have become ingrained. Certain perceptions must immediately, and without the intervention of inferences and ideas, have prompted emotions and motor discharges ; and both the latter must, from the nature of the case, have been very violent, and therefore when unchecked of an intensely...
Side 206 - The meals are distinctly commemorative, but are not altogether devoid of the purpose of benefiting the dead ; it is thought that the ghost is gratified by the remembrance shown of him, and honored by the handsome performance of the duty ; the living also solace themselves in their grief, and satisfy something of their sense of loss by affectionate commemoration.
Side 122 - If we fancy some strong emotion, and then try to abstract from our consciousness of it all the feelings of its bodily symptoms, we find we have nothing left behind, no "mind-stuff...
Side 445 - Even when one of them was willing to receive them, it was in vain if the others refused. When the life of the murderer was spared, he was obliged to submit to punishment from two to four years. He must walk barefoot. He could eat no warm food; he could not raise his voice; nor could he look around. He was compelled to pull his robe around him, and to have it tied at the neck, even in warm weather; he could not let it hang loosely or fly open. He could not move his hands about, but was obliged to...
Side 126 - To have in a slight degree," he says, " such psychical states as accompany the reception of wounds, and are experienced during flight, is to be in a state of what we call fear. And to have in a slight degree such psychical states as the processes of catching, killing, and eating imply, is to have the desires to catch, kill, and eat. That the propensities to the acts are nothing else than nascent excitations of the psychical state involved in the acts, is proved by the natural language of the propensities.
Side 48 - Nevertheless there is in it both joy and grief: for as there is novelty and remembrance of our own security present, which is delight: so there is also pity, which is grief: but the delight is so far predominant, that men usually are content in such a case to be spectators of the misery of their friends.
Side 444 - ... before their conquerors each with a piece of firewood and a bundle of leaves, such as are used in dressing a pig for the oven ; as much as to say, " Kill us and cook us, if you please.
Side 78 - In however complex a manner this feeling may have originated, as it is one of high importance to all those animals which aid and defend one another, it will have been increased through natural selection; for those communities, which included the greatest number of the most sympathetic members, would flourish best, and rear the greatest number of offspring.
Side 446 - He was obliged to pitch his tent about a quarter of a mile from the rest of the tribe when they were going on the hunt lest the ghost of his victim should raise a high wind, which might cause damage.

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