The early loyalty of primitive man to his family or clan was deemed to involve a normal condition of antagonism to neighbouring families or clans.
How can we deal with the apparent antagonism between the centrifugal force of nationality and the centripetal force of the Catholic ideal?
This supplies the most real and hopeful basis for the vital union of churches thus minded, and makes their continued separation and antagonism intolerable.
There had been so little intercourse between the two young men--a secret sense ofantagonism on Malcolm Herrick's part had been an obstacle to David's proffered friendliness.
I am equally baulked byantagonism and by compliance.
In its legitimate antagonism to pleasure-seeking, it becomes a foe to happiness, and an implacable enemy of all its elements.
A more positive factor in racial antagonism is the conflict of cultures: the unwillingness of one race to enter into personal competition with a race of a different or inferior culture.
Rather out of relationships existing within a peaceful situation antagonism is developed immediately, in its most visible and, energetic form.
Life histories reveal the natural tendencies toward reciprocal affection of mother and son or father and daughter, and the mutual antagonism of father and son or mother and daughter.
Inasmuch as this is a reciprocal matter, and each attributes the fault of endangering the whole to the other, the antagonism acquires a severity which does not occur when membership in a group-unity is not a factor in the situation.
To this result the tension between antagonism and still persisting unity must directly work.
In an accommodation the antagonism of the hostile elements is, for the time being, regulated, and conflict disappears as overt action, although it remains latent as a potential force.
Public welfare programs have not infrequently been received with popular antagonism instead of popular support.
They are also (2) subject to a strain of consistency with each other, because they all answer their several purposes with less friction and antagonism when they co-operate and support each other.
Have you ever known me, Mr. Carlis, to permit my personal antagonism to you or any other man to interfere with what I conceive to be my duty?
I have felt the same antagonism many times towards beauty that was unattainable by me.
In fact the efforts of the national authorities to enforce these laws were regarded with displeasure and actually caused strong local antagonism to the national government.
Antagonism between the consul and the Captain-General became so intense that Mr. Williams offered to resign his office, but the President requested him to remain.
The leaders of the Liberal party were by no means a unit in attitude toward the crisis, the antagonism already mentioned between President Gomez and Vice-President Zayas flaming up anew.
There is a tone of antagonism to Penn in some parts of the book which lacks the spirit of impartiality.
It was not strange, however, that partial alienation should, under favoring opportunities, widen and stiffen into seeming antagonism to it.
The sympathies of the author are plainly with Holland in the original struggle, and later with New York in her occasional antagonism to the influence of New England.
For its most forcible use was when, in a representative championship, it was made to stand in bold antagonism with the term “the Church,” as inclusive of what it carried with it alike under the Roman or the English prelatical system.
There was absoluteantagonism in his tone, although not in his words.
But, so far as I was able, I fought the idea of there being two schools, or of any necessary antagonism between the results of the two methods.
There is a devilish antagonism of inanimate and senseless things, begun by discord in ourselves, which works unreasonable torture.
I could feel Skenedonk's antagonism giving way in the relaxing of his muscles.
But there was a bitterness of antagonism in her tone as she said this.
Underneath Mrs. Blake's smooth speeches and charm of manner he had always been conscious of some indefinable antagonismto himself; as he had once told Geraldine, there was no love lost between them.
Jacob Berab had not expected such antagonism at Jerusalem from Levi ben Chabib and his colleague, Moses de Castro, because he credited them either with less courage or more self-denial, and it embittered him extremely.
Indeed it is not improbable that this occurrence contributed materially, though not just at the moment, to diminish the antagonism between Rome and Etruria, and above all to knit more closely the ties of union between Latium and Rome.
The age of disinterestedness and stoic virtues was passed; it had lasted nearly four hundred years, and during that period, the antagonism created by divergency of opinions and interests had never led to sanguinary conflicts.
In spite of these concessions, antagonism in matters of law reigned always between the powers, the assemblies, and the different classes of society.
No, I do not believe there ever existed on this earth a man who offered so monstrous an assemblage of passions and qualities so varied, so contrary, and in continual antagonism with each other.
As President, he was bound to take cognizance of the deep- seated antagonism on the part of the American people to any system of military preparedness that had a compulsory feature as its basic element.
They were pacifists no longer, but plain, simple men, bent upon discharging the duty they owed their country and utterly disregarding their own personal feelings of antagonism to every phase of war.
Douglas managed to be supported both as the best instrument to down and to uphold the slave power; but no ingenuity can long keep the antagonism in harmony.
I do this because he is not present to speak for himself, or to authorize others to speak for him; and because I should expect that on his returning he would not put himself practically in antagonism with the position of his friends.
He found himself only half hearing the conversation that Miss Sparkes rolled into his ear, watching the movements of other hands, feeling a little antagonism to Hunter and wondering how long they had known each other.
Stover felt it keenly, almost with a sharp antagonism that drove from him finally the slumbering rebellion he had felt all that night--the tugging at the bridle of consciousness which had been imposed upon him.
Somehow, Stover found that renewed contest with Hunter only increased the feeling of antagonism he had felt from the first.
Now, Stover had not yet come to a critical analysis of his own good fortune, nor had he any more than a personal antagonism for Hunter himself.
Curiously enough, the more the blunt antagonism of Regan impressed him, the more he was reassured that the man was too radical ever to challenge his leadership.
He seized an early opportunity to leave, furious at what (not understanding that the instincts of a first antagonism in a young girl are sometimes evidence of a growing interest) he felt was her indifference.
An instinctive antagonism was in him, the revolt of the man of action, the leader in athletics, at being criticized by the man of the pen.
He further believes that towards the outer two-thirds of the eyebrow the corrugator acts in conjunction with the upper orbicular muscle; both here standing in antagonism to the frontal muscle.
In all cases there seems to exist a profound antagonism between the same movements, as directed by the will and by a reflex stimulant, in the force with which they are performed and in the facility with which they are excited.
There seems an antagonism between nature's methods of bettering the physical condition of the race and the efforts of man himself, acting under the guidance of his moral feelings, to prevent the action of natural law.
He did so probably through a false notion of the antagonism between the family and the State, and hence, as Lycurgus did not aim at destroying family life he escaped that error.
