 | 1923 - 460 pages
...Smith, that invaluable point of departure for the social sciences, gives a good example of the facts. "When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall...shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm." The explanation that he gives is that we "conceive what we ourselves should feel like in the same situation."1... | |
 | George Sidney Brett - 1928 - 190 pages
...from which the passage below is quoted. 20. P. 85. Adam Smith, Moral Sentiments, Part i, Sect. i. " When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall...naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm . . . the mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1822 - 350 pages
...ftrokc aimed, and " juft ready to fall upon the leg or arm of another pcrfon, we " naturally fhrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm ; " and when it does fall, we feel it in fome meafure, and are hurt by " it as well as the fufferer. The mob, when they are gazing at a " dancer... | |
 | Nancy Eisenberg, Janet Strayer - 1990 - 422 pages
...the topic The "most primitive form" of sympathy In 1759, Adam Smith described a familiar phenomenon: When we see a stroke aimed, and just ready to fall...another person, we naturally shrink and draw back on our leg or our own arm. (1759/1966, p. 4) This is elementary motor mimicry, overt action by an observer... | |
 | David Daiches Raphael - 1991 - 448 pages
...demonstrated by many obvious observations, if it should not be thought sufficiently evident of itself. When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall...by it as well as the sufferer. The mob, when they arc gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies,... | |
 | Robin West - 1993 - 458 pages
...conceive or to be affected by what he feels, may be demonstrated by many obvious observations. . . . When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall...sufferer. The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance there own bodies, as they see him do, and as they... | |
 | Elaine Hatfield, John T Cacioppo, Richard L Rapson - 1994 - 256 pages
...movements with one another. Historical background As early as 1759, Adam Smith (1759/1976) observed: When we see a stroke aimed, and just ready to fall...another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our leg or our own arm; and when it does fall, we feel it in some measure, and are hurt by it as well as... | |
 | Teresa Brennan, Martin Jay - 1996 - 254 pages
...we see. From the first, then, the visual is crucial in determining the entire system. Smith writes, "When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall...sufferer. The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do, and as they... | |
 | V. A. C. Gatrell, Vic Gatrell - 1994 - 660 pages
...the capacity for identification with others in the natural, albeit involuntary and unconscious realm: 'When we see a stroke aimed, and just ready to fall...in some measure, and are hurt by it as well as the sufferer.'a9 38 D. Hume, Treatise of human nature (1739-40l; cf. J. Mullan. Stntiment and sociaWity:... | |
 | Robert L. Heilbroner - 1996 - 376 pages
...demonstrated by many obvious observations, if it should not be thought sufficiently evident of itself. When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall...sufferer. The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do, and as they... | |
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When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon the leg or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm... 
