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Sinopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII EXTRA-LOGICAL INFLUENCES (CONTINUED) Custom and Fashion The presumption of superiority which recommends one among a thousand examples of equal logical value, attaches not only to the persons, classes, and localities_from_which the example emanates, but to thejtime of its origin as well. I intend to devote this chapter to a consideration of this lastnamed order of influences. It is, we see, only a consequence of the law of the imitation of the superior, looked at under a fresh aspect. Let us begin by laying down the principle that even in societies which are, like our own, the most over-run with foreign and contemporary (thus doubly accredited) literature, institutions, ideas, and turns of speech, ancestral prestige still immensely outweighs the prestige of these recent innovations. Let us compare some of the few English, German, and Russian words that have recently been popularised, with the foundations of our old French vocabulary; some of the fashionable theories on evolution or pessimism with the mass of our ancient traditional convictions; our present-day reform legislation with the bulk of our codes, whose fundamental points are as ancient as Roman law; and so on. Imitation, then, that is engaged in the currents of fashion is but a very feeble stream compared with the great torrent of custom. And this must necessarily be so.1 But, however slender this stream may be, its work of inundation or irrigation is considerable, and it behoves us to study its periodic rises and falls in the very irregular kind of rhythm in which they occur. 'Just as from the social point of view, or, at least, from the point of view of temporary, if not lasting, social peace, it is much more important that beliefs should be held in common than...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII EXTRA-LOGICAL INFLUENCES (CONTINUED) Custom and Fashion The presumption of superiority which recommends one among a thousand examples of equal logical value, attaches not only to the persons, classes, and localities_from_which the example emanates, but to thejtime of its origin as well. I intend to devote this chapter to a consideration of this lastnamed order of influences. It is, we see, only a consequence of the law of the imitation of the superior, looked at under a fresh aspect. Let us begin by laying down the principle that even in societies which are, like our own, the most over-run with foreign and contemporary (thus doubly accredited) literature, institutions, ideas, and turns of speech, ancestral prestige still immensely outweighs the prestige of these recent innovations. Let us compare some of the few English, German, and Russian words that have recently been popularised, with the foundations of our old French vocabulary; some of the fashionable theories on evolution or pessimism with the mass of our ancient traditional convictions; our present-day reform legislation with the bulk of our codes, whose fundamental points are as ancient as Roman law; and so on. Imitation, then, that is engaged in the currents of fashion is but a very feeble stream compared with the great torrent of custom. And this must necessarily be so.1 But, however slender this stream may be, its work of inundation or irrigation is considerable, and it behoves us to study its periodic rises and falls in the very irregular kind of rhythm in which they occur. 'Just as from the social point of view, or, at least, from the point of view of temporary, if not lasting, social peace, it is much more important that beliefs should be held in common than...
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- Año de publicación2013
- ISBN 10 1230327215
- ISBN 13 9781230327211
- EncuadernaciónTapa blanda
- IdiomaInglés
- Número de páginas154
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