Sentences with phrase «by tameness»
In the animals we domesticated through genetic transformation, «Wild, human - threatening, and human - fearfulness instincts are eliminated and replaced by tameness, an acceptance or desire to be near humans, and often, other specific human - serving personalities.»
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(Adventures of Ideas, New York: The Free Press, 1967, 257) These discordant feelings, in themselves destructive and evil, make a contribution by producing «the positive feeling of a quick shift of aim from the tameness of outworn perfection to some other ideal with its freshness still upon it.»
Thus the contribution to Beauty which can be supplied by Discord — in itself destructive and evil — is the positive feeling of a quick shift of aim from the tameness of outworn perfection to some other ideal with its freshness still upon it.
To bolster this perspective, Bradshaw and Nott went on: «Studies on foxes selected over 20 generations for tameness by a group of Soviet biologists showed that over successive generations the foxes gradually began to sound more and more like dogs.»