In other words, the strength of a motive is not absolute, it is relative to the habits and predispositions of our organisms; but the strongest motive, whatever its kind, prevails in all cases.
In most cases it is cured, when it is not based on abnormal predispositionsor on an indolent and feeble character.
Now it cannot be denied that all predispositions may be improved by practice during the course of a life-time,—and, in truth, very remarkably improved.
Hence I should never have thought of asserting thatpredispositions cannot be transmitted, as E.
The increase of an organ in the course of generations does not depend upon the summation of the exercise taken during single lives, but upon the summation of more favourable predispositions in the germs.
The reader sees from this how much depends upon predispositions as to the effect of opium.
The clew to this form is supplied by the predispositions of human nature.
Those predispositions in man which serve the use of his reason are therefore destined to be fully developed.
The shape of the thoracic section is at the present time taken into careful consideration, especially in medicine, because it is apt to reveal predispositions to diseases.
That is, it leads to a diagnosis of the individual constitution, with which are associated not only the "character" but also certainpredispositions to disease.
Such individuals ought, like the macrosceles, to live under the necessary and perpetual tyranny of a hygienic regime, adapted to correct or to diminish the morbid predispositions associated with the organism.
These and many similar pieces of behaviour are fundamentally instinctive, due to inbornpredispositions of nerve-cells and muscle-cells.
If discipline visited upon such men is to carry for their amendment and repair, it must take heed of natural and acquired predispositions to think and act obliquely.
For the young woman's wish for her presence had been one of those strong predispositions very common under her circumstances, and far less unreasonable than many such.
Percival's mind, she might not have felt quite so certain about his predispositions towards her adopted aunt.
They do not mean that the will is powerless in the face of bodily conditions, but that in the management of character it has certain very definite predispositions to encounter.
Here the sankhâras seem to mean the predispositions anterior to consciousness which accompany birth and hence are equivalent to one meaning of Karma, that is the good and bad qualities and tendencies which appear when rebirth takes place.
Thus a personality with certain predispositions and aptitudes may be due to the thought and wishes of a previous personality[453], and these predispositions, asserts the last article of the formula, depend upon ignorance.
And far stronger than any such predispositions is the intense and widespread feeling, so pathetic even in its uncouthest manifestations, to which Dr.
Weismann's own remarks are quite open to criticism, as, for instance, where he denies that new predispositions can arise in the manner indicated.
New predispositions can certainly never arise owing to such deviations from the normal course of development, and therefore a modification of the process of heredity itself is out of the question.
Predispositions are defined as that constitution or condition of the body which disposes it to the action of disease under the application of an exciting cause.
In some women there are certainpredispositions to the occurrence of a retroflexion.
Indeed, a number of family diseases or predispositions to diseases, have been traced to them.
And again, the sweeping psychological attack has beaten its head against the stonewall of ignorance of constitutional predispositions and tendencies of material.
Now of all possible agencies that may bring these predispositions into play--that may awaken our ancestral memories, if you choose to adopt this theory--I submit that the book stands at the very head.
For it is itself a racial record; it may contain, in the form best suited to awaken our predispositions, the very material which, long ages ago, was instrumental in handing those predispositions down to us.
Few of us can boast of gymnastic ancestry, but all of us have inherited predispositions and have ancestral memories that make it easier for us to learn certain things and to choose certain courses than we should find it without them.
From like conditions of mind and body (and this includes like predispositions of brain and ganglia) and like exterior circumstances, like desires will follow as a necessary logical consequence.
It is evident that all the permanent beliefs touched on in this chapter must constitute powerful predispositions with respect to any particular act of perception, insight, introspection, or recollection.
We might, perhaps, characterize all illusion as partial view, partial both in the sense of being incomplete, and in the other sense of being that to which the mind by its peculiar predispositions inclines.
There are certain intricacies in the mental phenomenon itself favouring the chances of error, and there are independent predispositions leading the mind to look at the phenomenon in a wrong way.
The functional derangements, in truth, subordinate to and depending on the predispositions exhibited by the cattle, are far from being the same in all.
Now we know that all predispositions are destined to develop themselves according to their final purpose.
Man's rational predispositions are destined to develop themselves in the species and not in the individual.
The influence on the occurrence of tongue slips of such physiological predispositions as result from slight illness, circulatory disturbances and conditions of fatigue, should be acknowledged without more ado.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "predispositions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
