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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    standard by which one may regulate one’s motives and deeds, — does not admit, in- deed, of an answer that would be acceptable to all persons; but the basis for an answer is given through the study of one’s own intelligence, freedom, and will. We live in a social world of persons and recognize that we are bound to some of them by mutual interest and affection. It is not only to these persons as standing for them- selves alone, however, that we are bound, but still more to them as representing the forces that help to make them what they are and that underlie our own lives, — the forces represented by the ties of family, church, state. But these bonds pass over into still wider bonds, ideally definable, and there is no rational stopping-place until one reaches the point of vantage whence it is possible to see clearly that there are ties which bind all the parts of our universe, apparently so shifting and incongruous, into one. When the true nature of these
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