It explains how a portion of the public has returned to mesmeric practices; how I shall still perform an interesting task by giving a detailed analysis of the magnificent labours published by our fellow-academician sixty years ago.
It is still a conflict of corporeal emanations that explains the other aphorism of an ancient philosopher: "The sound of a drum made with a wolf's skin takes away all sonorousness from a drum made with a lamb's skin.
Herschel explains in a very natural way the rare occurrence of the circumstances in which it is possible to make good use of a telescope of forty feet, and of very large aperture.
His family did not join him until 1895, which explains his being in my house when ill.
Where many unfamiliar facts and ideas have to be dealt with, time is saved in the end if the writer explains precisely what his terms mean.
Common hypnotic experiments supply two obvious answers, each of which no doubt explainssome part of the phenomena.
In fact, the wakan plays the same role in the world, as the Sioux conceives it, as the one played by the forces with which science explains the diverse phenomena of nature.
For to-day, the maternal totem has only an accessory and supplementary role; it is a second totem, which explains how it was able to escape observation as attentive and careful as that of Spencer and Gillen.
It is undoubtedly this which explains why the greater part of the inhabitants of a given locality belong to the same totem (Nat.
He confesses that he sees little difference between Agni, the god of fire, and the notion of ether, by which the modern physicist explainslight and heat (Phys.
Tradition explains the bonds which unite them by imagining that formerly the two clans occupied neighbouring places.
But when this conception is carefully observed and analysed, it is hard to admit that it is primitive; for if the Altjira plays no role, explains nothing, serves for nothing, what made the Arunta imagine him?
This is undoubtedly what explains the sympathy which folk-lorists like Mannhardt have felt for animistic ideas.
Frequently the two coats-of-arms are combined together, which partially explains the great diversity of aspects presented by the totemic escutcheons among these peoples.
The religious nature of blood also explains the equal importance, religiously, of the red ochre, which is very frequently employed in ceremonies; they rub the churinga with it and use it in ritual decorations.
It is a similar reason which explains his tendency to treat his playthings as if they were living beings.
It affirms the duality of our intellectual life, but it explains it, and with natural causes.
This explains the error of which Strehlow accuses Spencer and Gillen: that they applied to one form of the ceremony the term which is more appropriate for the other.
Another reason explains why the constituent elements of the categories should have been taken from social life: it is because the relations which they express could not have been learned except in and through society.
When once established, it quickly explains the extreme rigour of the interdicts separating the sacred from the profane.
This, moreover, is what explains the singular confusions, examples of which we have met with as we have progressed.
Mr. Merk explains why Mahmoud Yusuph Khan could not take the responsibility of allowing me to proceed to Kandahar.
My escort explains that they are daman trails, in other words the trails worn by Turkoman raiders passing back and forth on their man-stealing expeditions, before their subjugation by the Russians.
Toward evening we pass a comparatively new cemetery on a knoll; no signs of human habitation are about, and Kiftan Sahib, in response to my inquiries, explains that it is the graveyard of a battle-field.
The chief looks inquiringly at the khan, and the khan with the gladsome expression of a person conscious of having on hand a rare piece of information for his friends, explains that a Ferenghi eats soup with a spoon.
With expressive pantomime he explains that, while my 38 bullet would kill a person as well as a larger one, it requires a heavier missile to crash into a man who is making for you with a knife or sword, and stop him.
He takes us down below and shows us the furnaces, and explains the modus operandi.
It is the peculiar structure of the valley in which the river runs that explains the story.
It is our mixing up our own interests with the interests of God's kingdom and refusing to leave self out of view while we profess to give ourselves wholly to God, that explains the slowness of our progress.
He explains in the same way "the contrast of French progress by revolutionary movements with the slow, constitutional, onward march of English liberty.
Therapeutic Sarcognomy explains the very intricate and mysterious relations of the soul, the brain and body, which prior to Prof.
Its close connection with the region of impressibility called Somnolence explains its supreme control over our emotions.
You've heard Pierre de Marion's will, which explains why Raoul de Marion, who illegally seized the great house known as Victoire, has been so eager to hound this young man to his death.
Boethius mentions the Roman notation, and employs it, as also does Hucbald in certain of his examples, but neither one of them explains it or gives any account of its origin.
For determining the correct pitch of the notes of the scale he explains the manner of demonstrating them upon the monochord.
He communicates fact after fact and explains them.
Then Monsieur Bergeret explains to his daughter that Putois was born as a full-grown man in the days when he himself and his sister were boy and girl.
This declaration, which is the reverse of that ordinarily made by generals and sovereigns on the eve of a battle, sufficiently explains the devotion of the army to their leader.
The same consideration explains why it is "First Philosophy" which has to disentangle the "principles" of the various sciences, and defend them by dialectic against those who impugn them.
Plato then explains the tendency in virtue of which the heavier bodies move towards the "centre" as an attraction of like for like.
An intimation in the preface that these experiences are a faithful record from the early life of the author herself sufficiently explains their graphic quality.
Pope says nothing about it; but it is clear that their system saps the foundations of the Christian religion, and explains nothing at all.
Malebranche explains the matter by the influence of the imagination on mothers.
It explains too why Engels said (and Labriola accepts the remark), that it is nothing more than a new method; which means a denial that it is a new theory.
In the first essay and the third part of the third Croce explains this distinction between economic science and history and their proper relation to one another.
Geschichte Jesu,” treats the fourth gospel as non-Johnannine in authorship and mythical in its contents, and explains the resurrection by the theory of a swoon or a vision.
He explains his motive: "That I might not sin against thee.
By looking out the parallel passages, as you proceed, you will see how one part of the Scriptures explains another, and how beautifully they all harmonize.
This fact explains the position of the Reformed before and after that extraordinary assembly.
The author himself explains that his aim is "to examine Joseph Smith's character and achievements from the standpoint of recent psychology.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "explains" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
