A lung constructed like that of mammals and birds would not have been adapted to the essence of the respiratory element such as in my conception of it the system of the environing air used to be"[102] (p.
And that distribution of these forces shown by the activities of the organism, is from moment to moment caused partly by the existing arrangement of its parts and partly by the environing conditions.
So that by the action of the successive higher forms on one another, joined with the action of the environing conditions, the highest forms of organic molecules are reached.
We delight in dissecting this much tortured faculty, from time to time, in search of a certain something which we call our faith--forgetting that faith is but an attitude, an empty hand for grasping an environing Presence.
When, for example, a man loses the sight of his eyes, his correspondence with the environing world is curtailed.
Even if his correspondence in itself could last, eternally, the environing material things with which he corresponds must pass away.
Keen Struggle for Existence It follows that the shore must be the scene of a keen struggle for existence--which includes all the answers-back that living creatures make to environing difficulties and limitations.
The beach is formed of pure white broken coral; the sea is blue with the calm, pure blue of turquoise, but crystalline in its purity, and breaks for ever over the environing coral reef with a low deep music.
Here, too, the country immediately environing Auvers and Méry is of the order made familiar by Daubigny and his school.
Crime is the product of the physiologically grounded psyche of the criminal and his environing external conditions.
They see a simple fact; the more they think of it the more they see in it; they magnify and decorate it with environing circumstances, and finally, unite all the details into a whole in memory.
Yet the absolute difference between those places in the heavens where the stars are and the environing places is just as great as in the night--there is only an increase in illumination.
But as life requires the fitness of the environment to the organic functions, adjustment to the environment means not passive acceptance of the latter, but acting so that the environing changes take a certain turn.
Any account of experience must now fit into the consideration that experiencing means living; and that living goes on in and because of an environing medium, not in a vacuum.
And now we approach the last and chief series of morphological phenomena which must be ascribed to the direct action of environing matters and forces.
When life is prolonged, the fact implies that the combination of actions, visible and invisible, constituting life, retains its equilibrium longer than usual in presence of environing forces which tend to destroy its equilibrium.
Dewar, arguing from the known habitudes of compound substances, concludes that the formation is in each case a function of pressure, temperature, and nature of the environing gases.
The more specific and accurate, the more complex and extensive, is the response to environing relations, the higher and richer, we say, is the life.
In the case of Man, the adjustments by which we meet the exigencies of life from day to day are largely psychical, achieved by the aid of ideal representations of environing circumstances.
Climate and situation are the environing elements which count for most in the development of the history of Los Angeles.
Its artists and citizens delight in dignifying that record in bronze and marble in the environingparks and city squares.
Life is a series of reactions between the individual and environing stimuli.
The wonder is that it has been of such average excellence, for the environing conditions have apparently not been favorable.
We cannot justly consider this movement in the light of reform, for up to this time our art has been very creditable, and, considering the environing circumstances, full as advanced proportionally as the other factors of American civilization.
But each globe in space evolves its own light and heat in its own environing atmosphere.
He boldly declares: "Emerged from the whirlwind of the war, but still struggling in its eddies, we do not propose to resign ourselves to the environing mediocrity, to content ourselves with the servile utterance of official platitudes.
It would succeed by making environing objects, things and persons, co-partners in its forward movement; or else it would run against obstacles and be troubled, possibly defeated.
For human beings, the environing affairs directly important are those formed by the activities of other human beings.
They are working adaptations of personal capacities with environing forces.
But since habits involve the support of environing conditions, a society or some specific group of fellow-men, is always accessory before and after the fact.
Settled and regular action must contain an adjustment of environing conditions; it must incorporate them in itself.
A hungry man could not conceive food as a good unless he had actually experienced, with the support of environing conditions, food as good.
Only thus can they discover their own power and learn the differences in different kinds of environing limitations.
Each is what it is in virtue of its total interactions or correlations with other acts and with the environing medium, with consequences.
There may be a sense in which the statement is true; but till we know the specific environing conditions under which selection took place we really know nothing.
And when men go beyond those journeys toward Ind and to the foreign isles, all is environing the roundness of the earth and of the sea under our countries on this half.
And the seven climates stretch them environing the world.
While at Seville, the camp of Ferdinand had been joined by several foreign chevaliers, amongst whom was an Italian knight, who had excited the attention and curiosity of many of the younger Spaniards from the mystery environing him.
The scene lay silent and slumbrous in the brooding noonday sun: the drowsing peacock squatted humped on the lawn, no fish leapt in the pools, nor bird declared himself from the environing hedges.
And they make their appearance in the proper environing conditions, just as the oak comes from its primordial germ or vital unit in the chemically changed conditions of the soil.
In either case the change that ensues is manifestly due to vital properties, whether the same be inhering in the seed, or in necessary environing conditions.
Fungi everywhere make their initial appearance in the conditions of decay, as plants and trees originally make theirs in the environing conditions of vital manifestation.
We do not make ourselves; it is the environing circumstances and conditions in which we are placed which oftentimes determine our career for good or for evil.
Life, as generally defined, is a state of organized being wherein there is functional activity; while a state, or status, is an incidence determined by environing conditions.
In other words, they come because it is just as impossible for them not to come, in their proper environing conditions, as it is for the earth, in its present cosmical relations, not to respond to its axial rotation.
And they all point to but one solution--that of primordial germs quickened into life by the necessary environing conditions.
Hall is, as things go in Tyrol, a distinctly smoky town; but it is seldom that the smoke hangs in the clear and fresh Alpine air which sweeps along the Inn valley down from the environing hills.
Then the snow on the towering peaks of the environing mountains glows with at first a golden light, which passes through pearly tones to bright rose pink as the sun sinks behind the soaring crags.
Fulpmes forms an excellent centre from which to make excursions in the upper portions of the lovely valley, and amid the wooded slopes of the environing mountains.
Effects experienced within Economic Society from Interchanges with the Environing Area.
This center trades with the environing region, sends some capital and labor thither, and draws some of each thence to the home countries.
It is, in an economic way, assimilated to it; and in this way the center may be regarded as annexing to itself belt after belt of the environing world.
Overproduction of any article quickly lowers the value of it throughout the area, and a mass of unemployed laborers affects wages throughout the area more speedily than it does in the great environing zone.
