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Toynbee
[[David Hume]] wrote:
[[David Hume]] wrote:
:The human mind is of a very imitative nature; nor is it possible for any set of men to converse often together without acquiring a similitude of manners and communication to each other their vices as well as their virtues. The propensity to company and society is strong in all rational creatures; and the same disposition which gives us this propensity makes us enter deeply into each other's sentiments and causes like passions and inclinations to run, as it were, by contagion through the whole club or knot of companions.<ref>David Hume, [http://econlib.org/library/LFBooks/Hume/hmMPL21.html ''Of National Characters''], Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary, Part I, Essay XXI, paragraph 9.</ref>
:The human mind is of a very imitative nature; nor is it possible for any set of men to converse often together without acquiring a similitude of manners and communication to each other their vices as well as their virtues. The propensity to company and society is strong in all rational creatures; and the same disposition which gives us this propensity makes us enter deeply into each other's sentiments and causes like passions and inclinations to run, as it were, by contagion through the whole club or knot of companions.<ref>David Hume, [http://econlib.org/library/LFBooks/Hume/hmMPL21.html ''Of National Characters''], Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary, Part I, Essay XXI, paragraph 9.</ref>
[[Arnold Toynbee]] wrote:
:The problem of bringing the uncreative rank and file of a growing society into line with the creative pioneers, in order to save the pioneers' own advance from being brought to a halt, cannot be solved in practice, on the social scale, without also bringing into play the faculty of sheer mimesis—one of the less exalted faculties of Human Nature which has more in it of drill than of inspiration.
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[[category:psychology]]
[[category:psychology]]