Closely akin to that instability of inter-association resulting in loss of proper checks on action in the types just described, is the sentimentalism which often covers real hardness, but which charms and allures the mass.
Even the mental instability of the highest type of defective genius is closely akin to that of the neurotic.
Closely akin to these states are expressions of degeneracy manifesting themselves with some approach to regularity in periods, as in epilepsy and the periodical insanities.
Closely akin to these conditions are leontiasis ossium and acromegaly, both of which are characterised by similar trophoneurotic defects.
Thus viewed, the evolutionist hypothesis does not seem so closely akin to the mechanistic conception of life as it is generally supposed to be.
In analyzing the idea of chance, which is closely akin to the idea of disorder, we find the same elements.
Closely akin to the Bengali, of which it is, perhaps, scarcely more than a dialect.
In literary form the little book of Jonah is closely akin to the stories in the opening chapters of Genesis and the first half of the book of Daniel.
The note of doubt in the opening section of 30 isclosely akin to that which recurs in the book of Ecclesiastes.
Its conception of Satan as the prosecuting attorney of heaven, and of Jehovah as a transcendental ruler surrounded by a hierarchy of angels, is closely akin to that which first appears in the second chapter of Zechariah.
Not a little of the dialog of the two Dromios is closely akin in its method to the interchange of question and answer between the Interlocutor and the End-man.
This abuse of dexterity in the art of modern magic is closely akin to the abuse of toe-dancing in the art of the ballet.
The drama is closely akinto the novel, since it is another form of story-telling; and in the telling of stories women have been abundantly productive from a time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
They were, in fact, closely akin to the very people whom Esarhaddon was implored to drive back, and are known as the Manda.
Why did not the Hebrews who migrated to the west of Jordan join themselves to the original Canaanite population which spoke the same language and was ethnologically so closely akin to them?
This is an American plant, closely akin to the balsam of our gardens, which has now thoroughly established itself on the banks of some of our rivers, as the Wey, and the tributary stream that runs through Abinger and Shere.
The Woccon and Catawba, indeed, are thrown into the same class in the Mithridates: but the Natchez and Uche are, by no means, closely akin.
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