习惯（六）

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习惯（六）

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本节课是《习惯》一文的最后一课，在之前的课程中我们学习了威廉·詹姆斯认为的养成习惯应遵循的三大准则，以及实践准则离不开的方法，即意志力，而要养成这种意志力，需要不断地练习与克制，并且建议人们通过每天做一点无关紧要的锻炼，让努力的机制在头脑中得以保留。那除了以上内容，威廉·詹姆斯还有什么想要告诉年轻人呢？我们一起来读今天的内容。

英文原文

The physiological study of mental conditions is thus the most powerful ally of hortatory ethics.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar.

The drunken Rip Van Winkle, in Jefferson’s play, excuses himself for every fresh dereliction by saying, “I won’t count this time!” Well! He may not count it, and a kind Heaven may not count it; but it is being counted none the less. Down among his nerve cells and fibers the molecules are counting it, registering and storing it up to be used against him when the next temptation comes. Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so many separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work.

Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be.

If he keep faithfully busy each of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself.

He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning, to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation, in whatever pursuit he may have singled out.

Silently, between all the details of his business, the power of judging in all that class of matter will have built itself up within him as a possession that will never pass away.

Young people should know the truth in advance. The ignorance of it has probably engendered more discouragement and faint-heartedness in youths embarking on arduous careers than all other causes put together.

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