If they shift beyond the mark at the centre, they weigh heavily upon the place to which they have come nearer, like the weight of a steelyard when it moves from the point of equilibrium towards the end of the weighing apparatus.
The moral ideal consists in a certainequilibrium established on the basis of certain conditions--wants and sentiments in moral agents.
For the definitions criticised are on a line with the idea of progress as at each moment establishing the equilibrium of the society, and fulfil the demand for self-consistency.
The question of the character of a conceived state of final equilibrium may be approached from a somewhat different side, though the emphasis falls, as before, on the solidarity of the universe and the nature of motion as change.
The individuality of morality, which finds a place or vocation for each individual, involves an equilibrium between the members of society, in which consists the morality of the whole.
The good man may be described either as an equilibrated order of conduct, or as an equilibrium of moral sentiments or of the parts of his nature.
If we contemplate material civilization under its widest aspect, we discover its legitimate aim to be the attainment and maintenance of an equilibrium between the wants of men and the outward means of satisfying them.
The isolation of such portions is, however, only relative, and anyequilibrium that can be spoken of as attained by them is most imperfect.
In a machine, the combination of parts is made in order to produce the motion of the engine, and the equilibrium is maintained by the motion.
The neglect of self-cultivation in one direction may be necessary to action in another direction; but the moral criterion of such self-cultivation or action is to be found in morality as an equilibrium of powers.
We have now to describe a most remarkable instrument based on the equilibrium of a rigid body under the action of springs.
Building in this way, it became of the greatest importance that the vaults should be so arranged as to bring about an equilibrium of thrusts.
Stevinus has been chiefly known by his discovery of the law of equilibrium on the inclined plane, which had baffled the ancients, and, as we have seen, was mistaken by Cardan.
Austria-Hungary was further advised that Italy could never permit that equilibrium to be disturbed through a prejudice.
The equilibrium thus obtained by mutual sacrifices really made by each would have been the best guarantee of future peace.
The presence of a great fortune preserved the equilibrium and produced upon outsiders the impression of real felicity.
Her judgment might be obscured by passion; she sometimes allowed herself to be carried to imprudent extremes; she had neither Mother's equilibrium nor her satirical qualities.
Jasmine's face cleared, and herequilibrium was instantly restored.
But she was disturbed: her equilibrium was shaken.
The infinitesimal molecules, balanced by universal equilibrium of forces, which before motion and time were but chaotic matter and force, were finally supposed to have been each endowed with an innate individuality.
Excessive evils are soonest remedied; the equilibrium of the evil must be maintained, or the annihilation of the evil ensues.
I believe that by reopening this trade, and giving us negroes to populate the Territories, the equilibrium of the two sections will be maintained.
It is possible, that Galileo was ignorant of the demonstration given by Stevinus of the law of equilibrium in the inclined plane.
As this equilibrium of unequal weights depends on the velocities they would have if set in motion, its law has been called the principle of virtual velocities.
The preservation of this equilibrium was to be effected by acquiring Southern territory and opening it to slavery.
The equilibrium between the two sections has been permanently destroyed by the measures above stated.
It permits the gradual creation of an equilibrium between the nation's population and its physical resources at home and abroad.
Even if there were no single economic principle to apply, it would not follow that some approach to an economic equilibrium would be impossible.
When, however, the exportable supply of food and raw material of an agricultural country dwindles, a new equilibriummust be established.
We can do no more than remark, that if air and water are heated at the equator, and frozen at the poles, there will be equilibrium destroyed, and constant currents caused.
Austria only wishes to have the equilibrium of Europe reestablished, and all the states occupy again the same position which they held prior to these convulsions.
Austria is oscillating, and Metternich thinks he can preserve her equilibrium by placing Austrian promises as weights now into this, now into that scale.
But this equilibriumremains always an idea that reality can never completely reach.
The two sides of a balance are in equilibrium when empty; they are also in equilibrium when their contents are of equal weight.
In the same way the tension of the isolated spiritual forces may make extraordinary men; but it is only the well-tempered equilibrium of these forces that can produce happy and accomplished men.
Thus the spirit of the time is seen to waver between perversion and savagism, between what is unnatural and mere nature, between superstition and moral unbelief, and it is often nothing but the equilibrium of evils that sets bounds to it.
If they should derive less benefit, therefore, from the Union in some respects than the less distant States, they will derive greater benefit from it in other respects, and thus the proper equilibrium will be maintained throughout.
But the greatest objection of all is, that the decisions which would probably result from such appeals would not answer the purpose of maintaining the constitutional equilibrium of the government.
But the spirit must re-establish the equilibrium by placing in the other pan something great, an ideal, a hope.
Although with great difficulty, the partisan succeeded in maintaining his equilibrium pretty well, by holding on to the grass and shrubbery which were within his reach.
They never for a moment speak of them as if they were antagonists on equal ground, but always as if they were a set of fools bent on their own destruction, who must be properly chastised and restored to their equilibrium by the Germans.
If the torque be insufficient for the load, the speed will diminish until equilibrium is established, assuming the motor is running on constant voltage circuit.
