Intercourse with concretereality is Professor James' requirement for the truth of an idea; intercourse with human beings is Mr. Galsworthy's requirement as the basis of social morality and of law.
I must not be supposed to mean that the artist begins with an abstract conception, and that he then proceeds to search for objects suitable to its concrete representation.
Thou canst not render homage to abstract Omnipresent Power, Save through the concrete symbol of visible ordained authority.
Yet it is clear that in each case there were concrete reasons why just that assertion was preferred to any other.
At this point he joins forces with Mr. Alfred Sidgwick, who has long been urging a radical criticism of the procedures of Formal Logic, and shown the gulf between them and the processes of concrete thought.
Men of genius, philosophers, poets, and saints, who by thinking and doing make this ethereal but most real world rise before us in concrete form and substance, are heavenly messengers and illuminators of the soul.
The size of the sums did not stagger him, because money was never concrete to him--it was merely rows of figures--but to the young fellows who listened his talk was dazzling.
He had his car, the concrete form of his mechanical ideas.
The chores were an endless repetition of the same task, with noconcrete object created.
This is true not merely of abstract concepts, which these languages, as a rule, do not possess, but even of concrete empirical concepts.
The American totem poles furnish a concrete portrayal of such a series of ancestors in which individual characteristics are totally lacking.
Although the concretesignificance of the particular, as such, precludes the historian from disregarding it, everything that is merely particular should be ignored by one who is giving a psychological account of events.
The question might also be stated in a more concrete form.
Here again it was necessary to seek a path to the concrete wealth of personality that had been lost.
In a word, primitive man is inclined to read concrete objects of this kind into his simple ornamental lines.
Nevertheless, the gestures that refer to specific concrete objects are frequently so similar that many of the signs employed by the gesture-language of the deaf-mutes of Europe may be found among the Dakota Indians.
Moreover, just as primitive language has no specific means for expressing a verb, so also are change and action overshadowed in primitive thought by the concrete image.
This had been bred by the ante-bellum regime, called intoconcrete trial by the civil war, and intensified in character through each year of Reconstruction, and through each year proven more untenable.
To the extent that general impulses placed in public view definite, concrete and tangible reasons why cotton mills could be made to pay dividends, the undercurrent was indirectly responsible for the erection of the factories.
Come on," shouted Alderhame, unfixing his bayonet and placing his rifle against the concrete face of the dug-out.
Alderhame, flattening himself against theconcrete sides of the first dug-out and pointing his rifle down the flight of steps leading to the deep subterranean retreat.
She'll never get out of that," thought Setley, for the mere possibility of that mass of metal extricating itself from the chaos of mud and shattered concrete seemed out of the question.
It was one of the numerous concrete works that the Huns never expected to have to evacuate so long as the war lasted.
In the concrete sense I wish you had not been present when I returned," said the other moodily, "I wanted to be finished with the whole sordid business without in any way involving my friends.
We shall often be simpler in using abstract and technical terms than in using concrete and familiar terms which by their very concreteness and familiarity call up images and feelings foreign to our immediate purpose.
This absence of concrete images would not have been simplicity, inasmuch as the labour of converting the general expressions into definite meanings would thus have been thrown upon the reader.
Such diction may be concrete or abstract, familiar or technical; its simplicity is determined by the nature of the thought.
But no sooner do we quit this sphere of abstractions to enter that of concrete things, than the use of symbols becomes a source of weakness.
These illustrations will suffice to show how the law we are considering will command and forbid the use of concrete expressions and vivid imagery according to the purpose of the writer.
Shakspeare had a mind predominantly emotive, the intellect always moving in alliance with the feelings, and spontaneously fastening upon the concrete facts in preference to their abstract relations.
He thought out his books so truly and so fully before he sat down to write them that he seemed to see each written, printed, made and bound before him, a concrete thing from cover to cover.
It is not only the physical good that results, nor the inspiration which one may draw from nature, but the concrete advantages that come from the fellowship with the children are a new and a real experience--this is what counts.
But his action in concrete matters, as whether a political party is censurable or not, was not direct, and only in the long run effective.
The abstract merits of home rule were no doubt untouched, but it made a difference to the concrete argument, whether the future leader of an Irish parliament was a proved accomplice of the Park murderers or not.
To take a concrete case, the egg of a starfish can not possess any organization corresponding to the starfish.
The chief critical difficulty felt by this school is in identifying any concrete historic fact with the unchanging idea, that is, in making Jesus of Nazareth the incarnation of God.
Perfect lines and surfaces do not exist within the region of our experience; yet the conclusions of geometry are none the less true ideally, though in any particular concrete instance they are only approximately realized.
We are accordingly able to carry on philosophical inquiries by means of words which are nearly or quite free from those shadows of original concrete meaning which, in German, too often obscure the acquired abstract signification.
It is this theology to which Lessing has given concrete expression in his immortal poem of "Nathan.
The concrete significance of the Romanic words becomes apparent to him, and they acquire energy and vitality.
Taine concludes that a work of art is a concrete representation of the relations existing between the parts of an object, with the intent to bring the essential or dominating character thereof into prominence.
Such a song, if we had it, would doubtless put forth clearly and melodiously in concrete imagery the ideas which Keats in his letter tries to expound in the abstract language of which he is by nature so much less a master.
I believe I shall better illustrate what I mean by "keeping the end in view" if I give a few concrete examples, instead of trying to explain in the abstract.
Surya (cognate in name to the Greek Helios) is the most concrete of the solar deities.
Vata, as also the ordinary designation of wind, is celebrated in a more concrete manner.
The evolution of thought in the Rigvedic period shows a tendency to advance from the concrete to the abstract.
There were perhaps a hundred Brandenburgers seated in a wide straggling ring round a fire which blazed in their midst, and which lit up their surroundings and threw long shadows upon what was left of the concrete walls of the fortress.
Let's get behind those concrete and stone walls and search for a spot where we can hold out and stand a siege till our fellows counter-attack and relieve us.
In all things, while he deeply reverenced principles, he chose to deal with the concrete rather than with abstractions.
The seeds, too, yield a concrete oil, by expression, which is used for lamps and occasionally for frying.
But I do not dwell upon the point for any such purpose; but merely to show how we must be always casting back to those concrete foundations with which we began.
About concrete matters indeed one naturally appeals to an oligarchy or select class.
Water-proofing, similar to that described for the walls in the trench, was then applied to the brick and tile wall for the full height, and firmly braced to the front forms, the braces being removed as the concrete reached them.
The concrete was mixed at the street level and deposited through chutes, as described previously.
The face and back of the concrete were prevented from freezing by a liberal packing of salt hay just outside the forms.
The concrete was discharged from the mixer into a hopper which divided into two chutes, only one of which was used at a time, the concrete being shoveled from the bottom of the chutes to its final position.
The concrete used was mixed in the proportions of 1 part of cement to 3 parts of sand and 6 parts of stone, in 2-bag batches, in ¾-yd.
After a section of concretehad firmly set, both back and front forms were removed, and the thrust from the sides of the trench was transferred directly to the finished wall.
The various operations in building the concrete wall are shown on Fig.
