He was captivated by her "deep rich human nature" and after her death in 1893 bestowed on her the ultimate Jamesian accolade: "The great thing was that... she had abundantly lived".
It speaks to something deep in human nature, and Thérèse's cult, though stimulated by her family and convent, grew among ordinary Catholics first.
Can there be community and purpose if you encourage things deep in human nature yet supposedly alien to order and togetherness?
For reasons no one has satisfactorily explained, there are some stories that run very deep in human nature, that have an enduring appeal that grows with each retelling.
Why couldn't we assume that Congress intended to recognize something so deep in human nature?" The Foster family's lawyer, James Hamilton, said, "After 10 years, it's time to give this family some peace".
And I think the reason he was so dark in his view of what was going to happen — and he remains dark — is that he thinks it's very deep in human nature, the desire to do this.
"There's something very deep in human nature that loves to solve puzzles — even small children, before they can read, love taking things apart and putting them back together".
For all the effort that goes into the design of modern office space and furnishings, something deep in human nature seems to drive many people to bury themselves and their desks under all manner of paperwork, books, magazines, mementos and whatnot.
Music, for Kafka, is a part of this: he implicitly understands what Oliver Sacks rather more technically states in his book Musicophilia, that music "may be developed or shaped by the cultures we live in, by the circumstances of life, or by the particular gifts or weaknesses we have as individuals – but it lies so deep in human nature that one is tempted to think of it as innate".
Hatred like this runs deep in human nature and is ever ready to erupt again.
