Honore de Balzac (46) (English, French, Paperback)

Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1899 edition. Extrait: ...the will. The word THOUGHT, in his view the essential product of the will, designated also the environment wherein the IDEAS are born of which it serves as the substance. The IDEA, a name common to all the creations of the brain, constituted the act whereby man makes use of the thought. Thus the will and the thought were the two generative agents; volition and the idea, the two products. Volition seemed to him to be the idea developed from its abstract state into a concrete state, from the fluid which it was when generated to a quasi-solid substance, if we may use these words to express conceptions so difficult to distinguish. According to him, thought and ideas are the movement and the acts of our inward being, as volition and will constitute those of our outward life. He gave will precedence over thought. ' In order to think, one must exert the will," he said. "Many beings live in the state of willing, and yet never arrive at the state of thought. In the North, life is long; in the South, short; but in the North we find universal torpor, in the South constant excitation of the will; until we reach the line where, in the one case because of too great cold, in the other of too great heat, the organs are almost reduced to naught." The expression environment--milieu--was suggested to him by an observation made during his childhood, of which he certainly did not suspect the importance, but which was so strange that it was certain to impress his delicately sensitive imagination. His mother, a fragile, nervous person, consequently very delicate and very affectionate, was one of those creatures destined to represent woman in the perfection of her attributes, but whom fate wrongfully relegates...