The existing groups, according to this hypothesis, have developed in different areas independently and divergently by continuousadaptation to their several environments.
Parker: "It is demonstrable that the Korean letters are an adaptation from the Sanskrit," i.
The exercise of a refined taste, in the adaptation and adjustment of apparel, may also be justified by the analogy of nature.
There is a symmetry of proportion, a skilfulness of arrangement, and a fitness and adaptation of colors, which strike the eye with unmingled pleasure.
Success is but a complete adaptation to environment; and success is the supreme aim of the modern man.
Sidenote: Machinery is an adaptation of natural resources] 3.
A change in the process of making paper threw out of use much machinery that was only in part saved by its removal and adaptation to the making of coarser grades of paper.
Usually, however, there is a possibility of change and adaptation to make them better suited to needs, and there is required the use of intelligence to choose among the goods and to employ them in the best way.
Sidenote: Results of the rapid growth of railroads] Because of these qualities, the extension of the railroads in the last fifty years has been so rapid that it has not given time for a gradualadaptation of industry.
Sidenote: Low rates to destroy competitors] Large monopolies dealing in commodities use an adaptation of this method to kill off small competitors who, within a certain district, sell at less than the monopoly price.
Rent-bearers may be increased in quantity and improved in quality by the adaptationof natural resources to man's purposes.
The simplest machine is but a slight adaptation of the tool, by which power may be applied in an automatically repeated manner.
The vast extent of the continent and its immense fertility, with its mighty rivers, its peculiar adaptation to settlement, and the yielding of all the necessaries and luxuries of human wants, had aroused the enterprise of Europe.
His knowledge of human nature seemed intuitive, and his capacity of adaptation was without limit.
He was one of those blossoms of male humanity that seem as expressly designed by nature for the ornamentation of ladies' boudoirs, as an Italian greyhound: he had precisely the same graceful, shivery adaptation to live by petting and caresses.
The most effective garden scene in my recollection is that in which Irving and Ellen Terry acted when playing Wills' exquisite adaptation of King Renê's Daughter, which he called Iolanthe.
Had he ever made a success since he produced that adaptation of Faust?
It was a successor to an adaptation of Called Back, the first of the "shilling shockers," as they were styled.
But to my mind, its most effective adaptation is in association with a pergola, especially if near the house.
In another well-built hut there was the apparatus of a game which is popular aboard ship in the Tropics: I believe it is called Bull; it is certainly an adaptation of the real bull.
But to make an adaptation of it is not enough to express what one feels on entering a walled garden from a street even of a country town.
Only one marvellously inartistic feature was in the adaptation of The Courier of Lyons.
Indeed, as every man knows, the most important function of a successful business man is the adaptation of production to the market, that is, to the desires of consumers.
Age is not always a crown of glory; nor does change of ownership and adaptation to different ideas and tastes necessarily conduce to improvement.
It points north-east, a peculiar orientation probably due to the adaptation of the chapel to the position of the residence with which it was associated.
The mihrab is on the south side, a greater change for the correct orientation of a mosque than is usually necessary in the adaptation of a church to the requirements of a sanctuary in which the worshippers turn towards Mecca.
He shews them up very industriously, and is very particular to direct the admiring attention of the reader to their adaptation as means to an end.
Almost every canto is like a scene; and little adaptation would be required to put it upon the stage.
It is rather an adaptation than a translation, and it has a second part in which the allegory is explained.
In the first dialogue Mercury is sent to Athens by Zeus the Father to have the "Book of the Destinies" rebound--an adaptation of an ancient sarcasm against the Christians by Celsus.
In the nature of things, an unchanging creed is moribund; life means adaptation to change; and it was only the alien cults that in Rome adapted themselves to the psychic mutation.
He soon shows high powers of memory, the exercise of reason in the determinations of judgment, and in the adaptation of varied means to varied ends.
A system working only through the moral must sooner or later come into an antagonism with the intellectual, and, if it do not contain within itself a means of adaptation to the changing circumstances, it must in the end be overthrown.
A similar piece of bold adaptation to an ancient style is seen in Truro Cathedral (Plate LIX) in Cornwall, begun about 1880.
In such circumstances the deformity may be remedied, after the parts have become quiet, by the adaptation of an artificial eye of enamel, made so as to resemble exactly the other eye.
In others, nothing remarkable is observed; perhaps passage of the air may have been prevented by inspissated mucus lodging in the windpipe around the wound, and closing the aperture, or by faulty adaptation of the divided surfaces.
An added detail Shakespeare borrowed from a very recentadaptation of the epigram in Giles Fletcher's Licia, 1593 (Sonnet xxvii.
This resemblance suggests that Shakespeare's poem may be a fancifuladaptation of Roydon's elegiac conceits without ulterior significance.
His notorious adaptation of 'Richard III,' which was first produced in 1700, long held the stage to the exclusion of the original version.
Some interesting, if more qualified, criticism by Dryden also appears in his preface to an adaptation of 'Troilus and Cressida' in 1679.
Into the adaptation Shakespeare flung all his energy, and the theme grew under his hand into genuine tragedy.
All of the industrial educational experiments have succumbed to the fatalism involved in the adaptation of their experiments to that fact.
Herman Schneider, of the University of Cincinnati, has made one of the most intelligent contributions in the adaptation of the German scheme of education.
It was not in the invention of new forms of vaulting but in the adaptation and improvement of those already in existence that Romanesque architects chiefly displayed their skill.
George's Hall, Liverpool, a skilful adaptationof the design of a hall of one of the great Thermae of Rome.
Granted, if it were not generally the case that those forms are most likely to survive which are best fitted for the conditions of their existence, no adaptation of form to conditions of existence could ever have come about.
He knows enough for his argument; he knows the utility of the end; he knows the subserviency and adaptation of the means to the end.
An adaptation of the number key, which can be used to advantage for a small number of publications, is a combination of numbers representing publications and dates.
Salesman's Comparative Sales Statement] This bonus system, which is an adaptationof the bonus wage system used in factories, has the effect of increasing the sale of the most profitable goods.
There is mechanical adjustment between inert bodies, but there is no adaptation without the push of life.
Life is adaptive, and this faculty of adaptation to the environment, of itself takes it out of the category of the physico-chemical.
In the organic world we see living adaptation which involves a non-mechanical principle.
Do we not want inheritance andadaptation accounted for?
Such facts only show that in the matter of adaptation among living organisms, there is a factor at work other than chemistry and physics--not independent of them, but making a purposive use of them.
