Human motives / by James Jackson Putnam.

  • James Jackson Putnam
Date:
1915
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Credit: Human motives / by James Jackson Putnam. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    excitement to which he will remain only too liable to return. In his attempt to secure for himself some measure of relief from these feelings of distress, the individual, now grown older, feels forced to explain them in some manner which is consonant with his pre- vious training and his theory of life, how- ever crude this theory may be. No per- son can live happily in a world that seems out of relation to his thought; and every man who feels himself surrounded by influ- ences that he cannot understand must per- force attempt to seek some sort of rational explanation, which may have reference only to a particular situation, or may in- volve, though perhaps without his knowl- edge, the framing of some unifying theory of the universe, — which under the cir- cumstances is likely to be imperfect. It is as a part of the attempt to secure such an explanation that the patient lays stress on this or that fatigue, this or that partic-
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