It is entirely possible to state abstractly the principles of construction, to grasp their reasons and implications from abstract statement, and to apply them by a mere act of the intelligence in writing any story.
But it is entirely impossible to state abstractly the principles of writing with finish and power, or to learn to write so from any mere discussion of the matter.
Finally, I will state abstractly the conditions from which result the artistic, not the physical necessity that the novelist confine himself in each book to a single story-idea.
These two principles complete the cycle; abstractly and very briefly they are the whole story of art.
We must distinguish between the abstractlytypical and the universal.
On the doctrines of magistracy and toleration, abstractly considered, they have manifested commendable fidelity.
The true is the universal;” which is abstractly the identity of understanding, according to which what is said to be true cannot contradict itself.
Unity and multiplicity are present in the triad in the worst possible way—as an external combination; but however abstractly this is understood, the triad is still a profound form.
But the distinction between the two should not be conceived of so abstractlyas to make it seem that thought is only in Philosophy and not in Religion.
The real fact is that each particular tone is different from another—not abstractly so from any other, but from its other—and thus it also can be one.
The one power is the divine right, the natural morality whose laws are identical with the will which dwells therein as in its own essence, freely and nobly; we may call it abstractly objective freedom.
Thus when it was said that continuity is the presupposed possibility of infinite division, continuity is only the hypothesis; but what is exhibited in this continuity is the being of infinitely many, abstractly absolute limits.
It may not improve what we abstractly term the "race," but it immensely improves the individuals of which the race is made up.
Life is a game throughout; its vital character, its very integrity is its experimental character; it is not a settled, abstractly perfect thing.
Another class of theories which omit life from the good is that which holds to abstractly ontological concepts of good as an eternal essence or form.
The unity of the abstractly natural and abstractly spiritual determinateness is the concrete unity of the spirit with nature, in which it recognizes nature as its necessary organ, and itself as in its nature divine.
As to punishment, as with all other work in education, it can never be abstractly determined beforehand, but it must be regulated with a view to the individual pupil and his peculiar circumstances.
They base it to a slight extent upon quasi-philosophical reasoning, and to a large extent on vaguely religious faith, to a large extent also on sentiment, ideally, abstractly poetical.
The failure of spirit subjective similarly consists in this, that it is, as against the universal, abstractly self-determinant in its inward individuality.
But the thing is an abstractly external thing, and the I in it is abstractly external.
Everything which is said to be outside mind is only outside a localised and limited mind--outside a mind which is imperfectly and abstractly realised--not outside mind absolutely.
No doubt this factor is incomplete, because it is only one factor; but still more incomplete is the other when no less abstractly taken,--viz.
An abstractly universal art and religion is a delusion--until all diversities of geography and climate, of language and temperament, have been made to disappear.
The object is only abstractly characterised as its; in other words, in the object it is only as an abstract ego that the mind is reflected into itself: hence its existence there has still a content, which is not as its own.
The forces of the great movement of mind in Shakespeare's day we may formulate as 'ideas,' but they were not the abstractly conceived ideas of Wordsworth's day.
These attributes, abstractly from God himself, were made an object of thought under the name of the Logos.
While if I consider the duty abstractly and ideally, even Common Sense morality seems to bid me "love my neighbour as myself.
Each man marries, even in favourable circumstances, not the abstractly best adapted woman in the world to supplement or counteract his individual peculiarities, but the best woman then and there obtainable for him.
Genuine love inevitably presents itself under the form of respect, but this conception of respect, abstractly taken, is an empty form without content; and can be filled with love alone.
For taken abstractlyand without qualification the words 'distinct' and 'independent' suggest only disconnection.
Abstractly set down, his most important conclusion for my purpose in these lectures is that the constitution of the world is identical throughout.
But what we thus immediately experience or concretely divine is very limited in duration, whereas abstractly we are able to conceive eternities.
I shall ask later whether the abstractly monistic turn which Fechner's speculations took was necessitated by logic.
It is the best of all the worlds that are possible, therefore, but by no means the most abstractly desirable world.
They are, therefore, in fact, but abstractlydefined aspects of the very system of eternal truth whose expression is the universe.
Criticism shows that these categories when abstractly and impersonally taken cancel themselves.
This statement, being in the main concretely descriptive rather than abstractly expository, brings us face to face with the character at the same time that it tells us what to think of him.
They are abstractly representative of a class; but they are not concretely distinguishable from other representatives or members of the class.
You might as well talk abstractly about the goodness or badness of this universe which contains happiness, pain, exhilaration and indifference in a thousand varying grades and quantities.
They come from an effort to state abstractly in intellectual terms qualities that can be known only by direct experience.
Moreover, when this method is not too abstractly pursued, it gives to things, after all, a human meaning, for it links them to humanity.
For criticism is the attempt to estimate the worth of something--object or idea--either abstractly on a basis of principles and relations, or personally on the basis of our reactions to the subject of criticism.
The abstractly conceived multiplicity is thus their mean; multiplicity is analogous to absolute unity, and is that which unites unity with the whole universe.
This solitude of mind within itself is then truly Philosophy; but the thought is abstractly at home with itself as dead rigidity, and as to outward things it is passive.
In this mode of forming the theory God is apt to be left remote, virtue is abstractly conceived and remains a reality too much by itself and separated from any enforcing or helping authority.
The more general, the more abstractly rational the rule, the vaguer and less applicable it is.
The fact is, moreover, that it is only when the "intermediate generalizations" are taken vaguely and abstractly that there is as much agreement as Mill claims.
Germany would not interfere in the former matter, but would abstractly but not concretely mediate between Russia and Austria in the latter.
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