Human motives / by James Jackson Putnam.

  • Putnam, James Jackson, 1846-1918.
Date:
1915
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Credit: Human motives / by James Jackson Putnam. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    satisfies is that which comes through the discovery of better adaptations between ourselves and the life around us. The justification for introducing in a book on motives the reasoning followed in this chapter is that the choice of motives, whether voluntarily or instinctively made, must depend in the final anal3’^sis on the standards arrived at through education, the true function of which consists in lead- ing to the discovery of deeper and deeper relationships between the outside world and the inner life. I conclude this chapter, as I began it, with a quotation from Emerson, the “Two Rivers.” “Thy summer voice, Musketaquit,^ Repeats the music of the rain; But sweeter rivers pulsing flit Through thee, as thou through Concord Plain. Thou in thy narrow banks art pent: The stream I love unbounded goes ^ “The Concord River.”