In all these cases, stimulants upon the mind seem to act rather by taking off the attention from the bodily fatigue, than by really and truly counteracting it.
In this case, as in the others, the mind seems to have little or no power in counteracting or curing the disorder, but merely possesses a power, if strongly excited, of fixing its attention on other subjects.
In Madagascar a mode of counteracting the levity of fortune is to bury a stone at the foot of the heavy house-post.
Modern chemistry has made us acquainted with many means of counteracting putrefaction more simple and efficacious than the Egyptian system of salting, smoking, spicing, and bituminizing.
This substance is employed for counteracting friction between rubbing surfaces of wood or metal, for making crucibles and portable furnaces, for giving a gloss to the surface of cast iron, &c.
Alcohol operates similarly, in abstracting the water essential to the putrefaction of animal substances, taking it not only from the liquid albumen, but counteracting its decomposition, when mixed among the animal solids.
It does not appear that our sugar colonists have availed themselves of the proper chemical method of counteracting that incipient fermentation of the cane-juice, which sometimes supervenes, and proves so injurious to their products.
Light destroys the colour very rapidly, and hitherto no means have been found of counteracting this effect.
Thus we can explain the influence of streams and winds, in counteracting the corruption of water exposed to them.
The following plan is adopted by some Scotch bleachers with the effect, it is said, of effectually counteracting spangs from grease.
Hard burnt stone-ware ground to powder, and incorporated with clay, answers still better than sand for counteracting the great and irregular contraction which natural pottery paste is apt to experience.
Sugar possesses the remarkable property of dissolving the oxide, as well as the subacetate of copper (verdigris), and of counteracting their poisonous operation.
In 1893, Oliver Heaviside proposed that the inductance of telephone lines be increased above the amount natural for the inter-axial spacing, with a view to counteracting the hurtful effects of the capacity.
As the capacity whose effects are to be neutralized is distributed uniformly throughout the line, the counteracting inductance must also be distributed throughout the line.
Experience has proved that it is not by counteracting all their habits and usages as a people that either the happiness of the Poles, or the peace of that important portion of Europe, can be preserved.
The illustrious and heroic Karna, however counteracting with numberless arrows of his own those shafts by Arjuna's hand, soon burst forth in view with bow and arrows like a blazing fire.
Counteracting celestial weapons with celestial, and human weapons with human, what man is a match for Arjuna?
German'icus disregarded his invectives, being more intent on executing the business of his commission, than on counteracting the private designs of Pi'so.
In other words, the yellow, as it responds to the process of drying, is influenced by the lighter color beneath, the one counteracting the other.
As before observed, the point was not now far off where, the two attractions counteracting each other, the bullet would actually weigh nothing at all.
Therefore, there was no longer any danger of its resting eternally motionless on the point of the counteracting attractions.
The best arrangement of the first kind was certainly Barbican's water-contrivance for counteracting the shock at starting, which has been so fully described in our former volume.
This counteracting influence of the attractions lasted nearly an hour.
We are now to begin the consideration of those counteracting agencies by which the extremes of temperature are moderated.
But were these agencies which tend to produce inequality of temperature suffered to operate without counteracting influences, the extremes of heat and cold would cease to be genial and healthful, and become destructive.
The attractions of the sun and moon are constantly counteracting the attraction of the earth and lifting the waters, so to speak, above their natural level.
But other influences have now begun to exert a counteracting power; William is eighteen, a man in size and strength, a hardy laborer, and much from home.
Now this tertium aliquid can be no other than an inter-penetration of the counteracting powers, partaking of both.
It could not be intellectually more evident without becoming morally less effective; without counteracting its own end by sacrificing the life of faith to the cold mechanism of a worth less because compulsory assent.
When, however, the causes are known, and the conjunction of the effects is deducible from laws of the causes, the derivative uniformity may be extended over a wider space, and with less abatement for the chance of counteracting causes.
But when a miracle is asserted, the presence of an adequate counteracting cause is asserted, viz.
These are ordinarily true only within certain limits of time, place, and circumstance, since, beyond these, there may be different collocations or counteracting agencies.
One of the most popular species of enchantment to which pins have been applied is that sometimes employed in counteracting the evil effects of witchcraft.
The power of fascination has generally been considered to be a peculiar quality of the eye, a notion by no means obsolete, and numerous charms have been resorted to for counteracting its influence.
Hence we find various devices still resorted to for the purpose of counteracting the supposed hurtful influences of this baneful power, instances of which we subjoin.
The only reason why it may not perhaps seem so striking to readers of this day is that the sermons have done their work, and we do not feel what they had to counteract, because they have succeeded in great measure in counteracting it.
Such a condition of things could not, however, have generally prevailed for any length of time in the earlier periods of the world, since subterranean forces must have striven in all epochs to exert a counteracting influence.
If modern civilization tends to beget a disinclination to marry, it ought also, on the principle of compensation, to provide some means forcounteracting this tendency, or keeping it under control.
