My weary limbs are scarcely stretched for repose, before red dawn peeps into my chamber window, and the birds in the whispering le...aves over the roof, apprise me by their sweetest notes that another day of toil awaits me. I arise, the harness is hastily adjusted and once more I step upon the tread-mill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we imagine what it is like to be a languageless creature, we start, naturally, from our own experience, and most of what then... springs to mind has to be adjusted (mainly downward). The sort of consciousness such animals enjoy is dramatically truncated, compared to ours. A bat, for instance, not only can't wonder whether it's Friday; it can't even wonder whether it's a bat; there is no role for wondering to play in its cognitive structure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of i...nfancy even into the era of manhood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a child is "free of neurotic symptoms" but values his freedom from fear so highly that he will never in his lifetime risk himse...lf for an idea or a principle, then this mental health does not serve human welfare. If he is "secure" but never aspires to anything but personal security, then this security cannot be valued in itself. If he is "well adjusted to the group" but secures his adjustment through uncritical acceptance of and compliance with the ideas of others, then this adjustment does not serve a democratic society. if he "adjusts well in school" but furnishes his mind with commonplace ideas and facts...then what civilization can value the "adjustment" of this child?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is nothing intrinsically better about a child who happily bounces off to school the first day and a child who is wary, watch...ful, and takes a longer time to separate from his parents and join the group. Neither one nor the other is smarter, better adjusted, or destined for a better life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... no one with a happy childhood ever amounts to much in this world. They are so well adjusted, they never are driven to achieve ...anything.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The treatment of the incident of the assault upon the sailors of the Baltimore is so conciliatory and friendly that I am of the op...inion that there is a good prospect that the differences growing out of that serious affair can now be adjusted upon terms satisfactory to this Government by the usual methods and without special powers from Congress.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The folk artist is usually satisfied with somewhat more anonymity; he is less concerned with aesthetic context, and less with spec...ifically aesthetic purpose, though he wants to satisfy his audience, as does the popular artist. His art, however, tends to be thematically simple and technically uncomplicated, its production--the folk song, the duck decoy, the tavern sign, the circus act--not so strongly influenced by technological factors. Popular art is folk art aimed at a wider audience, in a somewhat more self-conscious attempt to fill that audience's expectations, an art more aware of the need for selling the product, more consciously adjusted to the median taste.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »