It is necessary, then, that this function should have scarcely commenced, or that it should be completely finished, before partaking of ices.
Ground rent and interest on capital are, according to Rodbertus, remuneration for "indirect work" for the industrialfunction of directing or superintending production.
If a man's function in life is to learn, then by all means let him be learned.
As a matter of fact, the editor's function is not to write; the best of the profession never touch a pen, excepting to write a brief note of instruction or to send a private letter.
Is it, or is it not, an exaltation of the ordinary function of sensation?
The leading fallacy in the common view is the confusion which is perpetually being made between function and action.
Yet the menstrual troubles went on, and the function was not finally suppressed for a long time afterward.
And it appears to me not less absurd to say that pain is the function of the sensitive fibres of the trigeminus.
At the same time it may be admitted that, in the subordinate function of an adjuvant to the aperients which it is sometimes advisable to give, small doses of the acetic extract of colchicum seem to possess some value.
Now, the function of individual nerves is very nearly a constant quantity, at least, it varies only within narrow limits; while the action of the same nerves may be almost any thing.
It seems absurd to say that sneezing is any part of the function of those motor nerves whose action regulates the performance of expiration.
He has the misfortune to be of a very weak constitution, and consequently cannot accept of such cares and business as preferments in his function would oblige him to: He is therefore among divines what a chamber-counsellor is among lawyers.
The great function of goodness is to promote happiness; when it ceases to do this it ceases to be goodness.
The fact that the ascending scale of life is marked by increasing differentiation of faculty and function should rather lead us to expect in the highest of all beings a nature more complex than our own.
Matter is not primordial, but is a function of spirit.
Objective mind, as Hudson thinks, is the function of the physical brain, and it ceases when the brain loses its vitality.
A second reaction under the influence of the Herbartian doctrine of apperception substituted function for faculty, making all processes phases of apperception.
This view enables us to hold a rational conception of the function of the Scripture in religion.
To say that mind is a function of motion is to say that mind is a function of itself, since motion exists only for mind.
It does not follow from the fact that the natives, or some of them, have forgotten this function of the rite, that it is not real.
While the former are theoretically considered healthful and beneficent, the second have it as their especial function to cause sickness and death.
It is thus that an international mythology was established, of which the great god was quite naturally the essential element, for it had its origin in the rites of initiation which it is his function to personify.
Among the Dieri there is also a Mura-mura whose function is to produce rain (Howitt, Nat.
Under these circumstances, is it not surprising that their real function should be to serve moral ends?
More than that, the hypothesis according to which sacred beings were at first restricted to the negative function of disturbers is quite arbitrary.
Thus the individual totemism of America will aid us in understanding the function and importance of that in Australia.
It was the opinion of those of us who had attended the President that the ultimate cause of his demise was a severe injury to his brain with subsequent loss of neurologic function and subsequent massive loss of blood, and thus Dr.
With the President having been declared dead, did you consider it was your function to make any further exploration of the President's body?
Well, we prepared a table which showed what the probability of a hit would be on specific sizes of target as a function of aiming error, and using the appropriate round-to-round dispersion also in these calculations.
There have been experiments run where aiming error has been measured as a functionof the time one has to aim.
This is "Table I, Hit Probability as a Function of Range and Aiming Error.
The mainfunction of the union is to select and prepare future Party members.
This task is a major function of the trade unions, which are primarily a political arm of the Party for the control of labor, without any significant responsibilities in the field of labor relations (see ch.
The commission's function was to elaborate the Politburo's directives on reforming the school system.
These newspapers have been assigned the function of explaining Party policies in relation to the specific conditions found in the various localities.
The political section's primary function was the penetration of opposition political factions.
This function is performed primarily through exposure of corruption, negligence, and inefficiency on the part of various officials or workers or by issuing warnings against such crimes and behavior.
This elementary physiological function is lifted to a spiritual level by the aim of character and the motive of love.
The higher the type of family life the more fully does it discharge its function in the education of the child.
As in every other relation and purpose of the home, so here: the dominant factor is the conscious function of the home and family.
The educational function suggests the features of family life which we do well to seek to preserve.
Its function has to do with their development rather than with the preservation of chairs.
A clear function becomes evident for this social group called the family.
Further Reading On the educational function of the family: A.
It is educational in functionand religious in character, so that it is essentially an institution for religious education.
Now it is the functionof historical criticism to insist upon this, to see that later thought is not attributed to Parmenides.
But later on he came to see that every faculty of man has its place and its function, and the due performance of its function is a virtue.
Sense-perception is therefore the special function of animals, and they possess, therefore, the nutritive and the sensitive souls.
Self-preservation means first the preservation of the individual, and this gives the function of nutrition.
Secondly, it means preservation of the species, and this gives the function of propagation.
The function of art is to exhibit the universal in it.
And therefore, if it loses its function by being cut off from the arm, it likewise loses its form.
To come now to the question of the activity of the Nous and its function in the philosophy of Anaxagoras, we must note that it is essentially a world-forming, and not a world-creating, intelligence.
What is the functionof one thing cannot become the function of another.
Sensation is the special function of animals, but not of man.
For example, the function of a hand, its power of gripping, is part of its form.
The dianoetic virtues are the higher, because in them man's special function alone is in operation, and also because the thinking man most resembles God, whose life is a life of pure thought.
After the distribution of money, the most important function on Vishu morning is the laying of the spade-furrow, as a sign that cultivation operations have commenced.
We shall mention one furtherfunction of the new King and his new kingdom: its benefits are even bound up with the maintenance of this law of political unity.
Such opinions, when rich in vitality and warmth of conviction, have a very important function to fulfil.
But as they vary in function and result, so these kinds of comedy differ in the quality of action which each may present.
About his functionand habits, also, various misconceptions have gathered.
Though the conduct of the interlude Vice may be anything but dignified, his function was, accordingly, at first serious.
In the solution the value of an elliptic function is found by means of the arithmetico-geometrical mean.
It can be shown by a process of experimental exclusion that to an arrest of function of these cells is due the paralysis of all the voluntary muscles of the body that follows the administration of gelsemium or gelsemine.
It is permanently in a state of congestion, and its mucous membrane and muscular coat undergo thickening and other changes, which markedly affect the function of digestion.
In these, as in Patella, the typical ctenidia are aborted, and the branchial function is assumed by close-set lamelliform processes arranged in a series beneath the mantle-skirt on either side of the foot.
But the Liberalism of his early years was gone for ever, and he had become reconciled to Metternich's view that, in an age of decay, the sole function of a statesman was to "prop up mouldering institutions.
Their function is to give birth to genius and nourish it.
The special characteristic of the griffin was its watchfulness, its chief function being thought to be that of guarding secret treasure.
Not only the primary function of sex, but especially its secondary one of lactation, is made use of.
But sanctifying grace is more than a physical ornament of the soul; it is an ethical form which has for its essential functionto render the soul holy and righteous in the sight of God.
The same name is loosely applied to the act of ‘blessing’ the food before taking it, which is properly the function of a priest, but which is suitably performed by every Christian.
All other divisions are based on a difference offunction rather than of nature.
To yield consent or to withhold it, whenever God calls, is the function of one’s own will.
That this is also a function of sanctifying grace appears from those Scriptural texts which treat of the positive element of justification.
These are the despots of the court, and their function is to make life miserable for their lodgers.
But in James we seem to have not a ceremony or ecclesiastical function but rather the simple use of oil as a medicine and prayer "in the name of the Lord.
That power is not a functionof ecclesiastical position but the reward of holy living and trust in God.
The official teachers passed away, and the modern Sunday school movement is an effort to restore the teaching function in the churches.
For my own part, I incline to the view that we have here not a sacramental or priestly function on the part of these elders but the double duty of ministry of the word and of medicine (with prayer).
The highest function of human speech (Hort) is the praise of God the Father.
But when Dickens deserted his proper function Fitzjames was roused to indignation.
The function of the officers of the Navy Office, which had not as yet been strictly defined, were settled by instructions issued by the queen in 1560.
The first of these was the Storekeeper, whose function it was to receive all stores, stow them away, and issue them out again on a warrant of two or more principal officers.
He was primarily a military officer, who might or might not be a seaman, but who in either case had a master under his command whose function it was to navigate the ship.
