For immediateness of instants supposes the succession of beings mutually connected in a certain order; the two worlds in question would have no mutual relation; consequently, there would be neither distance nor immediateness between them.
The transition from directness and immediateness to indirectness and mediation, along with the notions of space and time appropriated in the process, is in many ways reflected in the process of language constitution.
From the time same and different were perceived in their degree of generality, directness and immediateness was progressively lost.
But the conflict with the so-called Montanism showed that there were still a considerable number of Christians who valued that immediatenessand freedom; these were, however, defeated.
The vigour and immediateness of the religious feeling was flattened down to a moralism, the barrenness of which drove some Jews even into Gnosis, mysticism and asceticism.
The truth of the words of God had shone out upon him with an immediateness and infinity of meaning and power, which made them, though the same words he had looked on from childhood, other and greater and deeper words.
There is an immediateness and calm intensity, a certain simplicity and tragic tenderness, in this exquisite picture, which no one but Paul Delaroche has in our days reached.
Its opening stanza speaks the last word in immediateness of narration: "It felle abowght the Lamasse tyde, When husbands wynn ther haye, The dowghtye Dowglasse bowynd hym to ryde In England to take a praye.
As regards immediatenessof narration, Laurence Sterne may, perhaps, be pointed out as an example.
By the modern reader, whether of the short-story or the novel, the lack of atmosphere and of immediateness in eighteenth-century prose-fiction is particularly felt.
In the first, which was cultivated to its highest point among the Greeks, direct immediateness rules.
Hutcheson the immediateness both of the affections and the moral estimation of them.
