I question profoundly whether the word "science," in current usage anyhow, ever means such patient disentanglement as Darwin pursued.
On the whole, they are prepared for the gradual disentanglement of men from the Normal Social Life altogether, and they look for new ways of living and new methods of human association with a certain adventurous hopefulness.
Though they do not in their present setting represent the correct chronological order, that may be determined once the proper clues to their disentanglement have been duly discovered.
His disentanglement from that plexus is incomplete.
Other transformations take place after the stage of coal is reached, which, by the continued disentanglement of gases, finally bring about the plumbago stage.
But among the moderns there are men who have set great store by obtaining this disentanglement from things of sense, and by speaking of the mysteries discovered when this veil is removed.
This disentanglement from things of sense takes place oftenest in men who practise the spiritual combat, and thus they arrive at a perception of the real nature of things such as is impossible to any beside themselves.
This condition of disentanglement from the things of sense is only held to be perfect when it springs from right dispositions.
But in spite of this the successfuldisentanglement was by no means yet accomplished.
Looking back now on these first few days of preparation for our journey in the wilderness, I realise that by far the hardest part of the journey was this initial disentanglement from the forces of tradition.
Only by the disentanglement of his primitive self from the modern development which caged it, could he recover this strange lost Eden and taste in its fullness the mother-life of the planetary consciousness which called him back.
And the thing he waited for--he felt it coming over him with a kind of massive sensation as little local as heat or cold--was that disentanglement of a part of his personality from the rest against which Stahl had warned him.
