This shows that we distinguish between the original self of a person and the self which is partly innate and partly the product of external circumstances.
Within the race all ssvariability would in this way be reduced to the effects of external circumstances.
In this respect they are however very variable and dependent on external circumstances.
They are evidently dependent on external circumstances, and by adequate nutrition the leaves may even become absolutely white or [427] yellowish, with only scarcely perceptible traces of green along the veins.
But when men or women escape this moral anarchy their conduct is more remarkable in itself and more worthy of admiration than any where else, since there is nothing in external circumstances favourable to virtue.
The function of these latter is to cleanse, repair and protect the nervous system, to make it as independent as possible of external circumstances, but, above all, to furnish it with energy to be expended in movements.
And this effect, could hardly be called a phenomenon of "adaptation": where is the adaptation, where is the pressure of external circumstances?
The effort may indeed be only the mechanical exercise of certain organs, mechanically elicited by the pressure of external circumstances.
He might have done something else; that is to say, the action was not wholly determined by external circumstances, and he is responsible only for the choice which was left him.
We should mean only that the fact of his going in one or other of the four directions was due to external circumstances, and not to him.
Not only may we mistake a measure of noise for perfect silence,[25] we may misconceive the real nature of external circumstances by overlooking some continuous impression.
It may be added that the verbal suggestions of others act very much like the suggestions of external circumstances.
That there is a capacity in all species to accommodate themselves, to a certain extent, to a change of external circumstances, this extent varying greatly, according to the species.
I have heard, that if these sublime geniuses are awakened from their reveries by the appulse of external circumstances, they start, and exhibit all the perturbation and amazement of cataleptic patients.
The essence of truth cannot be affected by the variation of external circumstances.
If you cannot make them subservient to external circumstances, you should certainly, if it be in your power, choose a situation in which circumstances will be subservient to them.
We may sometimes be led to assign much of the development of man's peculiar powers, to the influence of external circumstances.
So plainly does it appear that human thought is not produced or occasioned by external circumstances only; but has a special and indestructible germ in human nature.
The other kind of dimorphism or polymorphism differs from the first in being the result of the differentiating action of external circumstances, not on the mature, but on the young individual.
External circumstances act on the insect in its preparatory states, as well as in its perfect condition.
But there is more to be said; it very frequently happens that an impure thing or an evil power becomes a holy thing or a guardian power, without changing its nature, through a simple modification of external circumstances.
The slighter development of individuality, the small extension of the group, the homogeneity of external circumstances, all contribute to reducing the differences and variations to a minimum.
The general conclusion at which they have arrived is, that there is a capacity in all species to accommodate themselves to a certain extent to a change of external circumstances; this extent varying greatly according to the species.
If these views be right, and we believe them to be so, there cannot be a transmutation of species under the influence of external circumstances.
A wolf by domestication, for example, can never become a dog, nor the ourang-outang by the force of external circumstances be brought within the circle of the human species.
These conditions are the disposition of the universe at the time of the soul's entrance into the body, the nature of their body, parents and fatherland; in short, the aggregate of external circumstances.
External circumstances can, of course, at any moment bring about the death of these unicellular organisms, and in reality almost every series of beings which originate from one another in this way is interrupted by death.
The majority of these branches end blindly with the death, caused by external circumstances, of that individual which corresponds with the branch.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "external circumstances" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
