gre写作辅导：写作资料句子6
1.Yet there is little resemblance between these crude vehicles and a modern scientific balloon, which has by now became a importance research tool.2. In mediaeval times river were the veins of the body politic as well as economic.
3.Two main techniques have been used for training elephants, which we may call respectively the tough and the gentle.
4.This is supposed to induce pleasurable sensations in the elephant, and its effects are reinforced by the use of endearing epithets.
5.Custom has not been commonly regarded as a subject of any great moment. The inner workings of our own brains we feel to be uniquely worthy of investigation, but custom, we have a way of thinking, is behavior at its most commonplace.
6.As a matter of fact it is the other way around.
7.Yet that is a rather trivial aspect of the matter. The fact of first-rate importance is the predominant role that custom plays in experience and in belief, and the very great varieties it may manifest.
8.Even in his philosophical probings he cannot go behind these stereotypes; his very concepts of the true and the false will still have reference to his particular traditional customs.
9.John Dewey has said in all seriousness that the part played by custom in shaping the behavior of the individual as over against any way in which he can affect traditional custom, is as the proportion of the total vocabulary of his mother tongue over against those words of his own baby talk that are taken up into the vernacular of his family.
10.It is only in the study of man himself that the major social sciences have substituted the study of one local variation, that of Western civilization.
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