The preceding account, so far as it relates to Samuel, is based upon 1Samuel ix.
With such men as Amos and Hosea the moral personality based upon an inner conviction burst through the limits of mere nationality; their mistake was in supposing that they could make their way of thinking the basis of a national life.
Their priesthood was less to them than the predominance which was based upon it; they looked upon the neighbouring ethnarchs as their equals, and maintained relations of friendship with them.
The behaviourist philosophy of psychology, though in many respects admirable from the point of view of method, appears to me to fail in the last analysis because it is based upon an inadequate philosophy of physics.
Our confidence or lack of confidence in the accuracy of a memory-image must, in fundamental cases, be based upon a characteristic of the image itself, since we cannot evoke the past bodily and compare it with the present image.
And the problem will disappear only when theology is given up as an aggregate of question begging words and gratuitous hypotheses based upon a foundation of primitive ignorance and inherited delusion.
The whole argument from design is based upon a humanistic point of view.
The second point of confusion isbased upon a supposed opposition between individual inclinations and an ideal conception of duty.
The trio of the march is based upon a religious melody which was sung in the time of the Crusaders; but the remainder follows the Gregorian intonation.
Some views about patriotism which thus disparage it seem to be based upon a biological conception of it.
Germany's desire for England's downfall does not appear to us to be based upon a moral motive; Germany's war seems far from being a holy war, and it is hard to see in it a means of spreading culture abroad in the world.
National Honor There is another aspect of nationalism, which is psychologically distinct from patriotism as love of country, because primitively it is based upon a different motive.
Loyalty of the individual to the group, which is accompanied by or is based upon intensified or ecstatic feeling is one of the strongest elements of patriotism.
That social feeling isbased upon instinct is clear, but that it is also something created, synthetic, and subjected to selective processes seems also evident.
But such a view is based upon a denial of the axiom that the satisfaction of one want breeds another want.
Indeed, how am I to answer the question as to what is to be done, when every thing I do, all my life, is based upon a lie and I carefully give out this lie to others and to myself as truth?
This is the slavery of taxation, and, like the second, it is based upon hunger; but to the means of subduing men by depriving them of bread is added the deprivation of other necessaries.
Of or pertaining to phonography; based upon phonography.
Defn: Based upon, or consisting of, an operation or operations; as, operative surgery.
Our science is based upon a completely different philosophy from yours.
You see, our Fourth Order is based upon a process which you would call Psychomathematics and that is something I am sure you have not yet achieved.
It is my belief," Matson continued, "that the Aztlans possess these to a far greater degree than we do, and that their science is based upon them.
Another is, that all practice in medicine is based upon theory of some sort or other; and therefore, that it is desirable to have such theory in the closest possible accordance with fact.
You have to look among your workmen and foremen for persons who shall intelligently grasp the modifications, based upon science, which are constantly being introduced into these industrial processes.
Perfect culture should supply a complete theory of life, based upon a clear knowledge alike of its possibilities and of its limitations.
The doubt implied in that question, natural though it be, is based upon prejudice, with which we are all more or less afflicted.
This is based upon chlorate of potash, a compound very rich in oxygen, which it is prepared to give up readily to burn any other suitable element which may be at hand.
I venture to put forward the suggestion that primeval stone-worship, tree-worship, and the veneration paid to innumerable birds and beasts was largely based upon symbolism.
The land basis is always present, in spite of Morgan's artificial distinction between a theoretically landless societas, held together only by the bond of common blood, and the political civitas based upon land.
The union of arid plains and steppe vegetation is based upon climate, and is therefore a widely distributed phenomenon.
As between a classification based upon structure and one based upon utility, the choice has been for the latter, without prejudice, however, to instances that may arise in favor of the former.
No sooner had it received its charter than it began to turn out reams of paper money, based upon no value, which paper was paid as wages to its employees as well as circulated generally.
Consequently, these superficial effusions and tirades--based upon a lack of understanding of the propelling forces of society--have little value other than as reflections of a certain aimless and disordered spirit of the times.
It was by favor of these propitious conditions that many of the great fortunes, based upon land, were founded.
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