It is not aiming to interfere in the private lives of poor people, to tell them how many children they should have, nor to sit in judgment upon their fitness to become parents.
For the arrangements of the plan we rely for effect on honesty of construction, vastness of dimension, and fitness of each part to its end.
She thought, too, that it might please Miss Benson, there was such a fitness in the thing--the old sweet to the Old Sweet.
It hurt his sense of the fitness of things to see women without it.
Ordinary prudence and a sense of the fitness of things suggested that he should go home; inclination suggested that he should seat himself in the deck-chair at the foot of the crow's-nest and await events.
It rests on the fitness of each local community to handle its own affairs, while only the most general and fundamental interests are intrusted to the central authority.
And, unproved though he was as to administrative power and seamanship in a cyclone, there was yet a singular and intrinsic fitness in his candidacy.
They gave another proof of fitness for freedom when, enlisted in the Union armies, they showed the qualities of good soldiership.
Only the incongruity with his judicial position marred the fitness of Chase's candidacy.
Other motives, in addition to the persuasion of his fitness for the service, conduced to his appointment.
The first question is, Does the fact of seeing or the fitness to see raise a moral certainty or very strong probability of Design?
Instances of pre-eminent Fitness (such as those adduced further on) need not be understood in any other sense than this, in order to accomplish the purpose for which they are described.
In saying that lungs were intended to breathe, and eyes to see, we imply an argument from Fitness to Design, which carries conviction to the overwhelming majority of cultivated as well as uncultivated minds.
Animals seem often to work without fitness of organization,--or one might almost say in defiance of their organs.
The use we are now making of fitness and adaptation is less to prove the existence of Mind in the Universe, than its grandeur, grasp, and comprehensiveness.
Fitness consists in the nicety of the manner in which Function is correlated with Power.
The fitness is the same; and, as we are at present engaged, not on proving the existence of Mind, but in illustrating the greatness of a confessedly existing mind, these instances of far reaching adaptation are very strongly in point.
The old commander gratified their wish; they had proved their fitness for the post when they won the victory at the Gohrde, where two thousand Frenchmen were killed and as many more taken prisoners.
Fitness for salvation is the ultimate criterion with Dante respecting the elements of mortal life, as it had been through the Middle Ages.
I The lover of classical Greek and Latin poetry knows the beautiful fitness of the ancient measures for the thought and feeling which they enframed.
Pecuniary reward was the last thing that Mrs. Stowe expected for her disinterested labor, but it suits the world's notion of the fitness of things that this was not altogether wanting.
The fitness of the several parts can only be estimated in their relation to the whole, and the whole is not creation at any moment of time, but the evolution of the universe from everlasting to everlasting.
The impiety of putting himself in the place of God, and judging of the fitness or unfitness, perfection or imperfection, justice or injustice, of His dispensations, ver.
Lord Byron had confounded the importance of facts with their fitness for poetry, the repetition of a truth with the genius which discovers it.
But, as there is no supreme body which can sufficiently superintend, stimulate, promote, or dismiss, the active impulse must come chiefly from his own sense of the fitness of things.
We must consider the 'utility' of the whole organisation, not the fitness of separate details.
The first demand of this law of fitness is, that your costume shall accord with your person.
Fitness is the primary demand; and the dress that appears uncomfortable is untasteful.
But fitness must in nowise be interfered with; and the garb which infringes on this law gives us pain rather than pleasure.
This, without doubt, is the plan indicated by Providence, as affording the most natural means of accomplishing their ultimate fitness for a more desirable form of civil liberty.
The proposition discussed, and, I think, clearly established, relates to the essential propriety and the fitness of the system of domestic slavery as an institution.
The acknowledged merit of the officers and the peculiar fitness for the offices to which they were respectively appointed must preclude all objection on that head.
His great fortune and yours have jointly increased: if I may tell you so, it is a pleasure to all who understand fitness to know that this is so, and that your lineage and his will hold so great a place in the State.
Is there not institution after institution to decide on, so lacking a complete fitness to its end, larger in a way than the end it is to serve, and having, as it were, a life of its own which proceeds apart from its effect?
English bishoprics, dignities, and cures were conferred without regard to the fitness of the person promoted, and simply as a matter of policy, or a means of providing for the friends and advisers of the Pope.
Among these, it was allowed that it pertained to a spiritual, and not to any temporal judge, to examine into the fitness of a parson presented to a benefice, and that elections to dignities should be free from lay interference.
Iron is known to us as a peculiar substance, different from other substances: in its ordinary state we look upon it as a mere material remarkable only on account of its fitness for various uses and applications.
When darkness is presented to the eye it demands brightness, and vice versâ: it shows its vital energy, its fitness to receive the impression of the object, precisely by spontaneously tending to an opposite state.
