...the final complete loss of those faculties through neglect. 'The loss of these tastes,' he says, ' is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious...character by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.' The intellect of man, in itself, is never supreme or sufficient. Feeling or instinct is half...

...been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly bo injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." This is, perhaps, too negative an illustration to carry conviction with it; but a positive...

...alone, on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organised or better constituted than mine, would not, I suppose,...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature. My books have sold largely in England, have been translated into many languages, and passed...

...alone, on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organised or better constituted than mine, would not, I suppose,...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature. My books have sold largely in England, have been translated into many languages, and passed...

...alone, on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organised or better constituted than mine, would not, I suppose,...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature. My books have sold largely in England, have been translated into many languages, and passed...

...life over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week, for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.* Or again, the following extract from a letter, June 17, 1868, to Sir JD Hooker : I am glad...

..."My mind seems to have become a kind of a machine for grinding general laws out of a large collection of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." (I., 81, 82). Mr. Darwin uses the right word; part of his brain had become "atrophied;" but...

..."My mind seems to have become a kind of a machine for grinding general laws out of a large collection of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." (I., Si, 82). Mr. Darwin uses the right word; part of his brain had become "atrophied;" but...

...alone, on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organised or better constituted than mine, would not, I suppose,...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature. My books have sold largely in England, have been translated into many languages, and passed...

...intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have also almost lost my taste for pictures and music. . . . The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness and...character by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." Our mission is to " the world " for which the Saviour died, not merely to "the world of culture."...