George Trumbull Ladd

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Education is so much of an organic unity that, if any of the stages or elements of it be defective, the deficiency is felt throughout all the subsequent growth of the organism.
- George Trumbull Ladd
Collection: Education
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Psychology assumes that "things" are and "minds" are; and that, within certain limits determined by the so-called "nature" of both, they act causally upon each other.
- George Trumbull Ladd
Collection: Psychology
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It is instructive, although somewhat disheartening, for the ardent advocate of a purely scientific psychology to contrast the practice and theories of his colleagues with those of the students of the principal physical sciences.
- George Trumbull Ladd
Collection: Practice
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A high place of honor, although doubtless one to be obtained only after enduring the pangs of a prolonged crucifixion, awaits that philosophical biologist, or that philosopher sufficiently acquainted with scientific biology, who subjects the modern doctrine of evolution to a thoroughly critical analysis, with a view to detect and to estimate its metaphysical assumptions.
- George Trumbull Ladd
Collection: Philosophical
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Without the ontological assumption which goes with it, what is called science, is nothing but the dreamer's well-ordered dream.
- George Trumbull Ladd
Collection: Dream
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To accept with unquestioning faith, or to refuse to reconsider any particular view held by the Church in the past, is as unreasonable as it is unsafe. The faith of the Church is a progressive affair.
- George Trumbull Ladd
Collection: Past