 But pain or suffering of any kind, if long continued, causes depression and lessens the power of action, yet is well adapted to make a creature guard itself against any great or sudden evil. Pleasurable sensations, on the other hand, may be long continued...  Animal Life and Intelligence - Page 387by Conwy Lloyd Morgan - 1891 - 512 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1887 - 586 pages
...power of action, yet is well adapted to make a creature guard itself against any great or sudden evil. Pleasurable sensations, on the other hand, may be...this in the pleasure from exertion, even occasionally from great exertion of the body or mind, — in the pleasure of our daily meals, and especially in... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1887 - 588 pages
...power of action, yet is well adapted to make a creature guard itself against any great or sudden evil. Pleasurable sensations, on the other hand, may be...this in the pleasure from exertion, even occasionally from great exertion of the body or mind, — in the pleasure of our daily meals, and especially in... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1887 - 570 pages
...power of action, yet is well adapted to make a creature guard itself against any great or sudden evil. Pleasurable sensations, on the other hand, may be...this in the pleasure from exertion, even occasionally from great exertion of the body or mind,—in the pleasure of our daily meals, and especially in the... | |
 | William Parker Cutler - 1888 - 1034 pages
...power of action, yet is well adapted to make a creature guard itself against any great or sudden evil. Pleasurable sensations, on the other hand, may be...this in the pleasure from exertion, even occasionally from great exertion of the body or mind, — in the pleasure of our daily meals, and especially in... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1892 - 372 pages
...power of action, yet is well adapted to make a creature guard itself against any great or sudden evil. Pleasurable sensations, on the other hand, may be...this in the pleasure from exertion, even occasionally from great exertion of the body or mind, — in the pleasure of our daily meals, and especially in... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 580 pages
...power of action, yet is well adapted to make a creature guard itself against any great or sudden evil. Pleasurable sensations, on the other hand, may be...this in the pleasure from exertion, even occasionally from great exertion of the body or mind, — in the pleasure of our daily meals, and especially in... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Anthologies - 1897 - 492 pages
...power of action, yet is well adapted to make a creature guard itself against any great or sudden evil. Pleasurable sensations, on the other hand, may be...this in the pleasure from exertion, even occasionally from great exertion of the body or mind, — in the pleasure of our daily meals, and especially in... | |
 | Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin - Science - 1958 - 402 pages
...power of action, yet is well adapted to make a creature guard itself against any great or sndden evil. Pleasurable sensations, on the other hand, may be...most or all sentient beings have been developed in snch a manner, through natural selection, that pleasurable sensations serve as their habitual guides.... | |
 | Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin - Science - 1958 - 402 pages
...adapted to make a creature guard itself against any great or sndden evil. Pleasurable sensations, on tiie other hand, may be long continued without any depressing effect; on the contrarv, they stimulate the whole system to increased action. Hence it has come to pass that most... | |
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