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Practice Reading: Fill in the Blanks (Dropdown) ID: #51154 Practical Nature
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Considerations  of  a  practical  nature  give  us  the  most    possible  grounds  for  a  belief  that  human  desires,  feelings,  etc.,  are  homogeneous  and  communicable.  The  fact  is  that  we  all  have  back  of  us  many  millions  of  years  of  evolutionary  history  in  the  same  general  environment.  In  the  past,  with  relatively  minor  ,  the  same  influences  have  played  upon  our  ancestors  from  the  beginnings  of  life  on  our  planet.  And  then,  we  are  born  into  the  same  society,  and  it  has  given  us,  not,  to  be  sure,  the  power  of  ,  but  certainly  all  of  our  most  essential  stimuli.  Further,  we  do  get  along  in  society.  We  laugh  together,  and  we  play  together,  we  share  each  other's  sorrows,  we  love  and  hate  each  other,  in  a  way  that  would  be  wholly  impossible  if  we  did  not  in  practice    the  correctness  of  our  'inferences'  about  one  another's  motives  and  desires.  And  the  fact  that  these  'inferences'  are  in  the  main  correct  is  the  one  thing  that  makes  social  life  possible.  We  can,  and  do,  understand  one  another's  motives,  desires,  wants,  emotions.  We  can,  and  do,    communicate  our  feelings  to  one  another.

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