In distributive justice this is always the case, for the mean of the thing in distributions consists in equality between relative proportions of distributions and relative merits or abilities of persons to whom distributions are made.
Hence, distributive justice is found not only in the heads of a state, or family, or other body, but also in the subordinates who are content with the fair distributions made by the heads.
The natures and distributions of these harmonize with the hypothesis of an exploded planet, and I think with no other hypothesis.
When we turn from these ever-changing specks of living jelly to organisms having unchanging distributions of substance, we find differences of tissue corresponding to differences of relative position.
Now we have to note that in those aggregates of cells constituting the Metaphyta and Metazoa, analogous distributions also exist.
To the federal government the consequences of these distributions must be deplorable and destructive.
Mr. Calhoun and his friends had opposed these proposed distributions as unconstitutional, as well as demoralizing but after his junction with Mr. Clay, he began to favor them; but still with the salvo of an amendment to the constitution.
It was a voice which the senator from South Carolina, the author of this proposition to squander in distributions the funds which should be sacred to defence, would instantly recognize.
The distribution of land and money was a favorite measure with politicians; the people condemned it and no one of those engaged in these distributions ever attained the presidency.
To the honor of the people this intended effect never occurred; no one of those contriving these distributions ever reaching the high object of their ambition.
Thrasyllus adopted two different distributions of the Platonic works: one was dramatic, the other philosophical.
One of these distributions was into Tetralogies, or groups of four each.
Public donations and distributions of corn were frequent, and in times of scarcity rich citizens made large contributions with that object.
The distributions were made to adult citizens of eighteen years of age and upwards whose names were on the registers.
Distributions which he gives are confined to early Pueblo period cultures in the Southwest.
Massey has handled the analyses of the imperishable artifacts, their ethnographic and archaeological distributions, and the distributions of all artifacts for Baja California.
Reform of the Distribution of Corn The corn-distributions in the capital had hitherto been looked on as a profitable prerogative of the community which ruled and, because it ruled, had to be fed by its subjects.
Was the statute of distributions enacted in Heaven long before it was adopted by Parliament?
The distributions of some subspecies can be used to judge the differential effectiveness of water gaps between islands.
Distributions of subspecies of polytypic species are summarized in Table 6 and Figure 17.
Like distributions of wealth appear to be a regular habit with the Eskimos, and to take place at a certain season, after an exhibition of all that has been obtained during the year.
The Hellenists," whose numbers daily increased, complained that their widows received less at the distributions than those of the "Hebrews.
The public distributions of corn encouraged idleness and vice, and provided no remedy for misery.
Gratuitous distributions were afterwards extended to Constantinople, Alexandria, and Antioch, and were probably not altogether unknown in smaller towns.
The history of these distributions is traced with admirable learning by M.
On this occasion (as at a death) large distributions of food are made to the poor.
Such was the argument for these distributions for the first years they were attempted.
I have avoided speeches; I have opposed all distributions of land and money; I have gone for ships, forts and cannon--the ultima ratio of Republics as well as kings.
Finally, if we throw together the frequency distributions of all tables into one table (table 55; compare fig.
Owing to the ambiguous nature of the soma in many of the heterozygotes and to the relatively small number of offspring, it is useless to compare theoretical and observed distributions of plumage colors in the somas.
We see indeed that, from this moment, the Senate itself took the initiative of new distributions of land to the people.
The breeding distributions of some species of birds fairly closely approximate the distribution of these warm air masses; these examples are noted where appropriate below.
Frequency distributions of egg-laying in time are calculated on the basis of dates of completed clutches, as described earlier (p.
When information on the schedule of a species from one year is lumped with information from another year or other years, two (and ordinarily more than two) frequency distributions are used to make one frequency distribution.
A slightly more refined way of comparing the frequency distributions is to relate them to other, seasonally variable phenomena.
This conclusion is warranted if we examine what would happen to frequency distributions if the variables or oscillators regulating timing were linked.
It is significant that frequency distributions of breeding activity of various species and groups of birds take on the shape of a skewed normal curve.
All but the first dealt with the breeding birds chiefly in passing, and none was concerned primarily with habitat distributions and temporal characteristics of Kansan birds.
We do not obtain such distributionsin describing breeding activity, so we may say that the oscillators regulating such activity are not coupled.
The great advantage here is that the frequency distribution composed of two or more frequency distributions is more stable than any one of its components.
Let the officers of justice be favored (in the distributions of Indians).
To readjust the proportion of Indians according to the position or other claims of each individual, new distributions were resorted to.
That in future no more distributionsof Indians should take place.
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