Feeling as the Principle of Individuation and Socialization (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Feeling as the Principle of Individuation and Socialization We feel, however, that this classification does not strike the essential di¿'erence in the mental constitution of men. The man who is ignorant today may be the best informed savant twenty years from now. It has occurred not infrequently that men who stood at the lower end of barbarism have, within a few years of European training, acquired practically all the knowledge which the best seats of learning had to give. The fact is, that what is one man's knowledge may become the knowledge of any other man. To look, consequently, for the most striking di¿erences in the mental constitution of men to the intellect, is not an adequate procedure. Neither do di¿'erences in will-power explain the uniqueness of each human individuality. We do, indeed, classify men as weak and strong according to their will-power, as fickle and persevering according to the duration of the application of their powers to the carrying out of plans. But here we again feel that the classification is inadequate, since the same man may pursue one plan tenaciously and another half-heartedly. A man who appears to-day as absolutely incapable of carrying out a plan consistently, may to-morrow, with a proper motive to action, surprise everybody with his enthusiastic persistence in obtaining a certain end. The will, then, does not give us a criterion of individual di¿'erences, because what one man wills, all men may will. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.