The Indic religions till the twelfth century assimilated what little they drew from foreign sources, and stand before the world as a peculiar growth, native to the soil in all their essential characteristics.
At the time of Manu's code there were already many of these half-assimilated groups.
The latter live and work by the consumption and decomposition of that which plants haveassimilated into organizable matter through an energy derived from the sun, and which is, so to say, stored up in the assimilated products.
In the tiny seedling, as fast as this assimilated matter is formed it is used in growth, that is, in the formation of cell-walls.
In every internal action, as well as in every movement and exertion, some portion of this assimilated matter is transformed and of its stored energy expended.
The every-day utterances, the likes and dislikes of his parents, their social and caste feelings, their religious persuasions are absorbed by him; their views or those of his teachers become assimilated and made his own.
But notwithstanding occasional difficulties, in the main there was peace until the civil service of the Philippines was assimilated with that of Spain.
The Kitan formed only a very thin stratum, and the real power was in the hands of autochthonous Turkish tribes, to whom the Kitan soon became entirely assimilated in culture.
In the centre of the southern state the way of life of the non-Chinese was very quickly assimilated to that of the Chinese, so that the aborigines were soon indistinguishable from Chinese.
He who has got the first is not truly wise unless his mind has reduced and assimilated it, as Dr.
We must not only have wisdom, which is knowledge assimilatedand made our own, but we must, as the Lancashire men say and do, have wit to use it.
Meanwhile, the distinct publishing business also grew, till gradually the conditions of business became assimilated to those of Europe.
These residues are ground to a fine or coarse meal, and supplied either directly as a fertilizer or treated with sulphuric acid to form the more soluble superphosphates, which are more readily assimilated by growing plants.
All the materials of the piece are ordered and assimilated to that central and governing idea.
There, with a small aristocracy lording it over a people of serfs,[56] progress of all kinds was arrested, and even the religion of the conquerors assimilated to that of the aborigines.
Long before that stage, indeed, they consulted Greek oracles and collected responses; and they had informally assimilated before the conquest a whole series of Greek Gods without giving them public worship.
He notes the equally low level of taste and intelligence among the Spartans, who as a rule could not read or write (ii, 307), and to whom he might as well have assimilated the Thessalians as to the Macedonians.
When certain distinctions are held to be real this consideration is emphasized: that in the cognitive process, as such, it is the mind that is assimilated to the objective reality.
More and more the church became assimilated and conformed to the world, church discipline grew more lax, and moral decay made rapid progress.
The Roman church and with it the whole =West=, standing upon the supposed Apostolic origin of their symbol, did not suffer it to be dislodged by the Nicænum nor to be assimilated by any importations from it.
Study this potential device until you have absorbed and assimilated it.
Now repeat it after you have thoroughly assimilated its matter and spirit.
His piano paraphrases and transcriptions are poetic re-settings of tone-creations he had thoroughly assimilated and made his own.
By others he has been called the greatest contrapuntist after Bach, the greatest architectonist after Beethoven, the man of creative power who assimilated the older forms and invested them with a new life entirely his own.
Ere any plant-food can beassimilated by the plant's roots, it must first be rendered soluble.
From further experiments, carried out by Dr Paul Wagner and Wolff, glycin, tyrosin, and kreatin are able to be assimilated by the plant.
First, as we have already remarked, the soil has very little power to retain nitrogen in this form; and secondly, where the soil is covered with growing vegetation the nitrates are quickly assimilated by the plant as they are formed.
One class--and their importance is very great in agriculture--prepare the food of plants by decomposing the organic matter in the soil into such simple substances as are easily assimilated by the plant.
Nitric acid, then, must be regarded as the most valuable, inasmuch as it is the most rapidly assimilated form of nitrogen for the plant; but next to nitric acid in value comes ammonia.
In such a case the nitrates are assimilated as they are formed, and, by being converted in the plant into organic nitrogen, they are at once removed from all risk of loss.
This shows how speedily nitrates are assimilatedby the growing crop.
When potential life passed over into actual life in the individual Plato, it was not the pabulum that assimilated the man, but the man the pabulum.
It is probable that in the future, while a formal acceptance of Darwinism becomes general, the special theory of natural selection will be thoroughly understood and assimilated only by the more abstract and philosophical minds.
It should be remembered, however, that if more is taken than can be assimilated it will act as an irritant and increase the diarrhoea.
It was an open grove of pines, which assimilated in size to the grandeur of the mountain, being frequently six feet in diameter.
He found this tribe more assimilated to the white man than any Indians he had yet seen, having many fine horses and large flocks of sheep and cattle.
His language in these two works is more assimilated to that of the Seekers or Quakers, which it resembles in the cloudy mysteriousness of its phraseology, than that of the more rational and sober writers of the Independent school.
His keen perception promptly discovered the impossibility of the Iroquois being reconciled and assimilated to the French, and he at once saw the necessity of extirpating, or at least thoroughly humbling, these haughty savages.
Neither have we effected any serious change in the manners or customs of the East Indians; on the other hand, we have rather assimilated ours to theirs.
The nutritive properties of the earth and the air must have been assimilated for us by living plants and animals before we can use them.
The Zaporogues then took the appellation of Cossacks of the Black Sea, and their organisation was assimilated to that of their brethren of the Don.
Warburton, with his imperfect scholarship, and vast masses of badly assimilated learning, was jealous of the reputation of the thoroughly trained and accurate critic.
He was equally far from having assimilated any definite system of thought.
