It just shows what an amount of malevolence is hidden away in the depths of human nature.
For application in practice this purification of the glycerine extract offers no advantage, because the substances so eliminated are unessential for the human organism.
With the fluid so obtained I made further experiments on animals, and finally on human beings.
The result is that the stress necessary is less than that of a strong man of the Halle lifting a bag of wheat to his shoulder or of an athlete supporting a human pyramid.
Suppose we were to invite a green plant to dinner, the menu would have to be very differently arranged from that which would satisfy a human or other animal guest.
These are not human beings, who know that like results would follow their inoculation.
This day I completed my thirty first year, and conceived that I had in all human probability now existed about half the period which I am to remain in this Sublunary world.
Let old Mount Jefferson have his own secret still for his own--see how he wipes out all traces ofhuman beings, steadily and surely!
I reflected that I had as yet done but little, very little, indeed, to further the hapiness of the human race, or to advance the information of the succeeding generation.
Watches however, as every one knows, are a good deal more precocious in their infancy than human beings.
If a Tiger has once tasted human flesh it does not always confine itself afterwards to that article of diet, nor is it only aged and comparatively toothless animals which hunt man.
Certain of the muscles of the calf of the leg attached to the heel show a more human arrangement in the Gorilla than in the Chimpanzee.
The head is more like that of a Fox, with a sharp muzzle; it lacks the human expression of the face of even the lower among the Apes.
It is a Bornean animal, and is distinguished by a comical long nose, which not only suggests, but goes beyond, the aquiline nose of the human species.
It can perhaps hardly signify the eternity of a strong human feeling!
The minute diverticula of that organ, known to human anatomists as the ventricles of Morgagni, alone remain to testify to a former howling apparatus in the ancestors of Man.
The skull in its profile outline stands roughly midway between that of a young Chimpanzee (young in order to do away with the secondary modifications caused by the crest) and the lowest human skull, that of Neanderthal Man.
Its influence over human beings is as active when it is dead as when it is alive.
Humboldt asserted of it that when vexed its eyes filled with tears; but Darwin did not succeed in seeing this very human expression of an emotion.
Dingo remains have been found in river-gravels in Australia where no human remains have been detected.
Immense The tumult and the overthrow, the pangs And agonies of human and of brute Multitudes, fugitive on every side, And fugitive in vain.
The course of human things from good to ill, From ill to worse, is fatal, never fails.
Sacred interpreter of human thought, How few respect or use thee as they ought!
This I take to be the summum malum of the human heart.
The example of John Cowper furnishes also a remarkable evidence that a man may be distinguished by the highest endowments of human learning, and yet be ignorant of that knowledge which is emphatically called life eternal.
Ah, how the human mind wearies herself With her own wanderings, and, involved in gloom Impenetrable, speculates amiss!
The far greater proportion of human trials originate not in the appointment of Providence, but may be traced to the want of a well-ordered and duly regulated mind; to the ascendency of passion, and to the absence of mental and moral energy.
Then I am rich, and I abound, When every human heart is thine.
But all human happiness is transient at best, and even the sovereignty of taste could not endure for ever.
His own dear country--that nation which lovers of mankind had hoped would lead the world in advancing human welfare, was already rent asunder and everywhere the men who had been accustomed to lead in thought and action were divided.
Some great change is imperatively called for--no duty in the whole compass of human life being so scandalously treated as this.
How general is that sensuous dulness, that deafness of the heart, which the Scriptures attribute to human beings!
A man may shoot wonderfully well at a black mark in the centre of a white square, and yet make very poor practice at a human figure with its dull shades of colour and irregular outline.
They are thieves and murderers, but whether they eat human flesh is more than I can tell.
Their intention is to slay man, woman, and child without mercy, and I therefore regard them as human tigers, and no more deserving of pity.
The nature of theatrical performances, the essential demands of the stage, the character of the plays, and the constitution of human nature, make it impossible that the theater should exist, save under a law of degeneracy.
The historic chapels of worship and learning breathe the very incense of devotion and reverence for truth; while the conservatories of sculpture and painting preserve what is divinest in human experience.
Let the human body represent the house, and the sensitive nerves and the delicate blood vessels the sleeping inmates of that house.
But the fact is that poison does not act at all upon the human system, but the human system acts upon the poison.
It is out of the question just as pure, chaste, human nudity is out of the question.
One who has studied the theater tells us that the "fruits of the Spirit and the fruits of the stage exhibit as pointed a contrast as the human imagination can conceive.
And different poisons are defined as those which act differently upon the human organism.
Brotherhood is a general term, and as it is used here, comprises the fellow-feeling that one human being has for another, this is universal brotherhood.
This is just what happens when tobacco is taken into the human system.
This is true in all human affairs involving motive and conduct.
It is a medicine of much virtue, and the only metal friendly to the human frame.
The piratical tricks practised by many considerable paper-makers against the patentees are humiliating to human nature in a civilized and soi disant Christian community.
In Mr. Buddle's system all these evils are guarded against, as far as human science and foresight can go.
The enameller also makes artificial eyes for human beings, imitating so perfectly the colours of the sound eye of any individual, as to render it difficult to discover that he has a blind and a seeing one.
After the most mature physical and medical investigation, I am of opinion that the circumstances above specified cannot act permanently upon human beings, without impairing their constitutions, and reducing the value of their lives.
Not a humanbeing in sight, and no sign of a house or barn.
You only have to take one step at a time, you know, and no human being ever lives more than one moment at a time.
Starlings, blackbirds, jays, jackdaws, and ravens can imitate the human voice.
Not only has the parrot the power of imitating the human voice, but it seems to wish to do so.
In the process of a few years accumulation, the floating mass increased in length, breadth and thickness, till it became an island, capable of sustaining not only shrubs and trees, but sometimes a human habitation.
And the Pawnees never again polluted their altars with the blood of a human sacrifice.
They alone, of the North American Indians, continued, down the present century, and far within it, to practice the savage rite of sacrificing human victims on the altar of their gods.
He would instantly detect the slightest trace of a footstep on the ground, or the passage of a human body through the thicket.
The gods whom he worshipped had sent these strangers to fulfil their own irresistible purposes--if, indeed, these were not the gods themselves, in human form.
It was to one of these fairy gardens that the beautiful Karee retired, rich in the priceless jewel of freedom, and feeling that a chinampa all her own, and flowers to train and commune with, was the summit of human desire.
For more than seven moons she had not seen a human face, nor heard a human voice, nor did she ever expect again to see the one, or hear the other.
With no star to guide her, and with no appearance of a path through thickets which seemed never to have been penetrated by a human footstep, she was soon bewildered, and felt that it was vain to proceed.
It touches one of the deepest cords in the human heart.
There is, perhaps, no single achievement in the annals of human enterprize, more remarkable than this.
And out of this there springs to light for the seeing eye a pitiful story which brings back a pulse of human sympathy for the man whose old age was so sordid, so degenerate.
At any rate, at the time, it was hoped that they would save the lives of some fifteen thousand human beings.
Doubtless the human foes belonged to the aboriginal tribes which are still to be found clinging to the far mountain uplands and inaccessible fastnesses which the Aryans did not care to annex.
The Hindus had sworn on Ganges water to conquer or die, the Moslem had sworn likewise on the Koran; so heads were bowed in humble prayer to the Lord of Hosts, and human hearts beat high with murderous hope.
Kapilavastu, and the followers of the religion of which he was the founder number at this present day nearly one-third of the wholehuman race.
Once or twice a ring of human pathos, human regret, is heard in the harmony of his good counsels, his unswerving loyalty, his fast determination to "pay the debt arising out of the food which has been given me.
The first record of a human word is to be found in the earliest hymn of the Aryan settlers when they streamed down into the Punjab.
Doctors differ; only this we know, that it was through Asoka's exertions that the latter became the creed of one-third of the human race.
Then Suraj-ud-daula was practically a monster in human form.
That of Rama and his long-suffering wife Sita, is, doubtless, the more human of the two; but there is a grandeur about the story of Bhishma before which the former crumbles to commonplace.
They are beginning to get into disrepute in the practice of human medicine; and I believe that if they were all banished from the veterinary Materia Medica we should experience no loss.
The human being is sadly distressed by it, he forces it out with the greatest violence, or utters the falsely supposed bark of a dog, in his attempts to force it from his mouth.
He then attacks every kind of dirt and filth, horse-dung, his own dung, and human excrement.
There is, occasionally, in the dog as in the human being, an alteration of the quantity, as well as of the quality, of the blood.
The Dog, next to the human being, ranks highest in the scale of intelligence, and was evidently designed to be the companion and the friend of man.
The horse is his frequent prey, and thehuman being is not always safe from his attack.
This symptom occurs in the human being, when the disease is fully established, or at a late period of it.
Besides these external ocular evidences of morbid action, we have, as in thehuman subject, guides to direct us in forming a just opinion as to the nature of a dog's indisposition.
Now she bent her head down to her breast, and breathed on that which lay upon her breast, for the Ancient Evil can live only in the breath of human kind.
For we were not mortal then, but partook of the nature of the Gods, being more fair and great than any of human kind, and our happiness was the happiness of Heaven.
Then the Snake lifted up itshuman head and laughed horribly.
Again the Thing reared itshuman head and laughed out in triumph.
But I--I build in the dust ofhuman hearts, and my will is written in their dust.
At all events, we were likely to meet with human beings, who, if natives, would probably be able to pilot us back to the brig.
The captured slaver, with four hundred human beings stowed away in her hold, has not yet been described.
Desmond and several others who had run aft declared they saw several objects, like the heads of human beings, floating for an instant on the surface, but when they looked again they had disappeared.
She was probably either burnt, or driven on shore, or, still more likely, she was capsized and went down with her living freight of eight hundred human beings.
However, we couldn't be worse off aboard her than we were, and I couldn't suppose that any human beings would leave us to perish.
He knew that, at all events, he was of some service in thus locking up these traders in human flesh.
One at a time, however, must keep watch, though I don't think we run much risk of being attacked by human or savage foes.
No sound could be heard coming from any direction, and the town was too far off for the hum of its human hive to reach them.
At that instant probably some four or five hundred human beings chained in the hold of the slave-ship, with their white captors, had been carried into eternity.
It was a consolation to Lady Rogers to see Tom go off under Jack's wing, as she knew that, as far as one humanbeing can take care of another, Jack would watch over Tom.
Meanwhile the Seventeenth Century planters of Virginia bought and sold their human chattels with an untroubled conscience; and the latter, comprehending even less of the ethics of the question than their masters did, were reasonably happy.
They still failed to realize that it was inhabited by human beings, and that those human beings were of English blood.
But had the Jesuits advocated but a single principle of human freedom, France might have been mistress of America to-day.
What he lacked was human sympathies, which are the beginning of wisdom; and this deficiency it was, no doubt, that led him into the otherwise incomprehensible folly of the Carolina scheme.
Quebec was lost and won; and human history was turned into a new channel, and no longer flowing through the caverns of mediaeval error, rolled its current toward the sunlight of liberty and progress.
In a word, by removing temptations to vice and avarice, he thought he could make his people forget that such evils had ever belonged to human nature.
In ordinary times this would have answered very well; human nature likes to eat its cake and have it too; but this time was anything but ordinary.
England, was the immediate human instrument of giving the purest form of such liberty to English exiles beyond the sea.
The morning sunlight fell upon a scene which, for the first time, seemed homelike: not like the lost homes in England, but a place people could live human lives in, and grow fond of.
The conception of human equality before the law is not a congenital endowment, but an accomplishment, arduously acquired and easily forfeited.
Our record thus far is full of faults, and presents not a few deformities, due to our human frailties and limitations; but our general direction has been onward and upward.
Philosophers could frame imaginative theories of human liberty; but the people could be helped only from within themselves.
He is conscious of being an agent of a world-wide movement that is massing into an irresistible human force millions upon millions of the disinherited.
Their eyes were opened to the wrong of hunger, poverty, unemployment, of woman and child labor, and of all the miseries that press heavily upon human souls.
I pass over the question of knowing up to what point it is always desirable to push one's own right to the extreme and whether other considerations, actuated by a sentiment of human solidarity, ought not to make it yield.
Yet, as he lived in this world and fought with his faithful circle to lay down the principles of universal revolution, we find him very human indeed.
One humanbeing in revolt with torch or dynamite was able to instruct the world.
It is, then, with no ordinary human being that we must deal in treating of him who is known as the father of terrorism.
Its chief and most important work was "to abolish religion and to substitute science for faith; and human justice for divine justice.
Only the enthusiasm, here gentle and intimate, would become incomparably more intense and the atmosphere more agitated by the mutual contagion of the human beings in a crowd.
He refers in another place to the majority, who "may be considered as human zeros.
Indeed, unless we have become a part of humanity, we cannot even faintly understand the just indignation that accumulates in a human soul, the burning, surging passion that makes the storm inevitable.
The importance among the human arts of the making of maps is indicated by the references to them in very early historical records, and by the skill in map drawing shown by some of the primitive peoples of to-day.
A considerable portion of the human race is interested directly or indirectly, whether as mariners or passengers or shippers, in navigation upon the sea.
But crime is only a temporal transgression, in opposition to the general good; it draws no consequent punishment heavier than the judgment of a broken human law, or the resentment of the offended private parties.
If it be honorable to love delineated excellence, it must be equally so to love it when embodied in a human shape.
Footnote: Such were the moral tactics for humanconduct at the commencement of this century.
But human nature is capricious; we are not so easily stimulated by what is always in our view as with sights which, rising up when we are removed from our customary associations, surprise and captivate our attention.
The disciples of this independent doctrine hold forth instances of the perfectibility of human actions, produced by the unassisted decisions of human intellect on the limits of right and wrong.
She desired to see her daughter before she died,--what human heart could deny a mother such a request?
No; though no human form can come nearer to perfection, yet it was not that: it was you.
So exquisitely balanced, so finely tempered, was her judgment of life, that after all these years, for she had died while he was still a boy, he remembered her as one whose understanding of the humanheart approached the divine.
I believe he is the only human being I ever knew David to be unjust to.
With these three words, into which he seemed to put infinity, he had broken down the walls of reticence that divide human souls from each other.
Life had become for her only a pedestal which supported an image; and this image, as unlike the actual Angelica as a Christmas angel is unlike a human being, was reflected, in all its tinselled glory, in the minds of her neighbours.
It was as if his adverse destiny--that destiny of splendid purpose and frustrated effort--had assumed for an instant the human form through which it had wrought its work of destruction.
When I think how wonderful a marriage like yours and father's can be, it makes me feel sorry and ashamed for human nature as I see it here.
There was obliquity of vision, there was even blindness, for the human mind was still afflicted by the ancient error which had brought the autocracies of the past to destruction.
This splendid dream of the perfectibility of human nature may not have led us very far in the past, but at least it has never once led us wrong.
He is the only man who looks at her as if she were a human being, not an angel," she reflected.
Under the summer sky she saw again the elm leaves falling slowly; she approached again the red walls in the glimmer of sunset; and she felt again the divine certainty that the house contained for her the whole measure of human experience.
