It is only by the constancy if the changeless law that we can calculate with absolute certainty and surely attain the results at which we aim.
Its faith arises from the constancy of natural law, the balance and sanity of nature, and the harmonious adjustment of the universe.
It is enough to have seen that this argument from stability or constancy is no less worthless than the previous one.
Mr. Wallace can scarcely suppose that when specific characters first arise, they present the three-fold kind of constancy to which he here alludes.
Here he asks, What is there to guarantee the uniformity and the constancy of feminine taste with regard to small matters of embellishment through thousands of generations, and among animals living on extensive areas?
As we have already seen, Mr. Wallace himself employs this consideration of permanence and constancy against the view that any cause other than natural selection can have been concerned in the origin and maintenance of specific characters.
But if even these pronounced and deleterious peculiarities can arise and be perpetuated with such constancy and fidelity, much more is this likely to be the case with less pronounced and merely neutral peculiarities.
Constancy of characters not necessarily due to Natural Selection, 186.
She ought to be very proud of such constancy on your part, Mr. Saul, and I have no doubt she will be.
She perhaps expected that he would promise to her that he would be her dog--a dog in constancy and affection; but he was still mindful in part of Florence, and restrained himself.
How many more discreet and less changing lovers have had the quality of constancy in change, to which this life-long correspondence bears witness?
I could not but admire, besides, the constancy and kindness she displayed.
That constancy to the Master of which she was proud while she supposed him dead, she had to blush for now she knew he was alive, and these blushes were the hated spring of her new conduct.
Its effects are visible both in their constancy in love and friendship, in which respects they are the very reverse of the French women.
By spending a reasonable portion of our time in the company of women, and another in the company of our own sex, we shall imbibe a proper share of the softness of the female, and at the same time retain the firmness and constancy of the male.
Constancy will always be the real genius of love, the evidence of immense power--the power that makes the poet!
If you are right, my constancy has some merit, monsieur.
The strongest affection known, that of a woman for a woman, had not such heroic constancy as the Church.
But the unshaken constancy that made a part of Peter's character, prevented him from being discouraged in any of his projects.
His constancy in all emergencies was equal to the intrepidity and valour of Charles.
But God,' she adds, with a not ungraceful vanity, 'recompensed his justice and constancy by restoring her as well as before.
When at last the constancy of the lovers had triumphed over all the obstacles which kinsmen and rivals could oppose to their union, a yet more serious calamity befell them.
Temple showed on this occasion the same justice and constancy which did so much honour to Colonel Hutchinson.
Constancy doth become most folks well, but none better than princes and such as hath rule over realms, and especially in the matter of religion.
Alas, I know too much of the world to be surprised that a man's constancy should not stand out two years in the absence of his mistress.
Could it be true that his constancy was such that he would never marry unless she would take his hand?
Her thoughts have dwelt on it with more constancy than his;--and then too her devotion has separated her from other things.
Much persuasion of the sufficiency of Christ, and of the constancy of his love.
Make known, by their constancy under suffering, the power and beauty of thy grace!
They endured with heroic constancy the most cruel tortures, asserting with their latest breath the innocence of the Order, though offered life if they would confess, and implored to do so by their friends and relatives.
She had worn the trinket hidden under her black sleeve for a long time after his death, with the regretful constancy one sometimes shows in doing some little kindness all too late.
Everything, indeed, was against them; and even if the courage and constancy of the force had prevailed at last, success could have been achieved only after an immense sacrifice of life.
In the evening I went to the theatre, to have the pleasure of seeing the beloved object of whom my love and constancy had made me the possessor.
He acknowledged that his letter might be a slander, that he had acted treacherously, and he pledged his honour never to attempt obtaining from me by violence favours which he desired to merit only by the constancy of his love.
Your patience and constancy have astonished me, and have caused me to be guilty, for after the first kiss I gave you I had no longer any control over myself.
Fortunately she did not believe in the constancy of my passion.
My house seemed intended for keeping a mistress with all decency, and as I had the virtue of constancy a mistress was all I wanted to make me happy.
I am sure that you love me," says she, "and be quite certain that I shall leave nothing undone to secure the constancy of your feelings.
When I hear women talking about the bad faith and inconstancy of men, and maintaining that when men make promises of eternal constancy they are always deceivers, I confess that they are right, and join in their complaints.
With what constancy has he not refused all the solicitations, whether of friendship or of authority, that sought to take him away from us?
We have seen that the Attraction of Gravitation was different from any other so-called form of Force and Energy--both in its operations and laws, as well as in its constancy and self-support.
