 | Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin - 1928 - 824 pages
...of those myths, which enclose with them all the strongest inclinations of a people, of a party, or of a class, inclinations which recur to the mind with...reality to the hopes of immediate action by which men can reform their desires, passions, and mental activity. The truth of this may be shown by numerous... | |
 | Kimball Young - 1927 - 884 pages
...form of those myths, which enclose with them all the strongest inclinations of a people, of a party or of a class, inclinations which recur to the mind with...reform their desires, passions, and mental activity. We know, morever, that these social myths in no way prevent a man profiting by the observations which... | |
 | United Nations Library (Geneva, Switzerland) - 1983 - 448 pages
...form of those myths, which enclose with them all the strongest inclinations of a people, of a party or of a class, inclinations which recur to the mind with...men can reform their desires, passions, and mental activity".7 Such "motor images,", according to Sorel, distilled in propaganda, constantly rejuvenated... | |
 | Gerard L. De Gré - 262 pages
...form of those myths, which enclose with them all the strongest inclinations of a people, of a party or of a class, inclinations which recur to the mind with...reform their desires, passions and mental activity. We know, however, that these social myths in no way prevent a man profiting by the observations which... | |
 | Simeon Larson, Bruce Nissen - 1987 - 414 pages
...of those myths, which enclose with them, all the strongest inclinations of a people, of a party or of a class, inclinations which recur to the mind with...reform their desires, passions, and mental activity. We know, moreover, that these social myths in no way prevent a man profiting by the observations which... | |
 | John Friedmann - 1987 - 518 pages
...form of those myths which enclose with them all the strongest inclinations of a people, of a party, or of a class, inclinations which recur to the mind with...reform their desires, passions, and mental activity. (Sorel, in Horowitz 1961, 132—133) In the face of disaster, it is the myth alone which allows us... | |
 | Leopold Å abÄ dź - 1989 - 402 pages
...about great myths "which enclose with them all the strongest inclinations of a people, of a party, or of a class, inclinations which recur to the mind with...reform their desires, passions, and mental activity. ..." In Reflections sur la Violence (1908) Sorcl referred to early Christianity, the Reformation, and... | |
 | United Nations University - 1994 - 299 pages
...of those myths, which enclose with them, all the strongest inclinations of a people, of a party or of a class, inclinations which recur to the mind with...reform their desires, passions, and mental activity. We know, moreover, that these social myths in no way prevent a man profiting by the observations which... | |
 | Lars Udehn - 1996 - 476 pages
...of those myths, which enclose with them, all the strongest inclinations of a people, of a party or of a class, inclinations which recur to the mind with...reform their desires, passions, and mental activity. (Sorel, 1908/1961: 124f.) Examples of such myths are the early Christain beliefs in the return of Christ... | |
 | Barbara Probst Solomon - 2002 - 332 pages
...of those myths, which enclose with them all the strongest inclinations of a people, of a party, or of a class, inclinations which recur to the mind with...action by which, more easily than by any other method, man can reform the desires, passions, and mental activity."3 He argued that it made no sense to discuss... | |
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... future, in some indeterminate time, may, when it is done in a certain way, be very effective, and have very few inconveniences; this happens when the anticipations of the future take the form of those myths, which enclose with them all the strongest... 
