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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    ing learned, through a contemplation and scrutiny such as this, to appreciate the nature of men at their best and to recog- nize the capacity in them to work for the most constructive social and ideal ends, we have the right to feel ourselves pre- pared to see the true nature of the processes that characterize those tendencies in the lives of men which prevent them from con- forming systematically to their own ideals. At each point it is possible to trace the influence of these tendencies, assuming the guise of needful compromise and ad- aptation, though based on the instinctive desire to preserve motives and emotions which those who entertain them unawares would fain think themselves to have ban- ished altogether. The mature man is a more natural ob- ject of primary study than the immature man or the child, because the traits that make him mature correspond to the traits with which we, as rational beings, enter
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