Thus measured, it will be seen how tremendously mysterious is the power of magnetism, and how potent an influence it must possess over animate and inanimate nature!
Another curious circumstance was observed by Professor Faraday--the Gymnotus appeared conscious of the difference of giving a shock to an animate and an inanimate body, and would not be provoked to discharge its powers upon the latter.
He had, in truth, in the devouring universalism of his soul, a positive love for inanimate objects such as has not been known since St. Francis called the sun brother and the well sister.
Wherever the mothers stopped to take refreshment, a small part of their food was invariably presented to the lips of these inanimate memorials.
But he was very lonely now in the old house, which was a bare, blank place, peopled by no bright inanimate creations by which art fills the homes of wealthy hermits with fair semblances of life.
Many objects in the inanimate creation, according to these tales, were originally men and women.
He is not staggered by the most extraordinary stretch of fancy, in the theory of the change or transformation of animate into inanimate objects, and vice versa.
Vitality in their forms of utterance is deeply implanted in all these dialects, which have been examined; they provide, by the process of inflection, for keeping a perpetual distinction between the animate and inanimate kingdoms.
And not only so, but by the figurative use of these forms, to exalt inanimate masses into the class of living beings, or to strip the latter of the properties of life--a principle of much importance to their public speakers.
The want of inanimate forms to such words as happy, sorrowful, brave, sick &c.
The particle un, therefore, which is the appropriate plural for the inanimate nouns in these examples, is only the objective mark of the animate.
The inanimate forms, being without person, are simply rendered plural by in, changing maiskwaug, to maiskwaug-in.
Mudwaysin, the sound of any inanimate mass falling on the earth.
Then this center of family cheer becomes as exasperating as any other inanimate thing that doesn't work.
Or this power acts by impressing the stamp of humanity, and of human feelings, on inanimate or mere natural objects:— “Lo!
To perceive it, we need only separate the inanimate parts in which the active particles of this matter are engaged.
They are in greater abundance in the seminal liquors than in any other parts, or rather, they are less entangled by the inanimate parts.
It is the same proclivity, as Tylor says, which reappears in our often irrational desire or thirst for vengeance upon inanimate things which in one way or another have caused us pain or injury.
The three germs are: our tendency to personify nature, our belief in its and our own duality and in the immortality of the soul, and the belief in the supernatural power and influence of certain inanimate objects (amulets).
The microscope fastened itself closely to the inanimate springs and keys and screws.
Perhaps it is because the inanimate sweep of the water, its hugeness and silence, make one forget the petty things and the greedy trifles which form the routine of one's day.
The Jains still think that all animals, plants and inanimate objects have souls or spirits like human beings.
Frazer in The Golden Bough [104] Thus primitive man had no conception of inanimate matter, and it seems probable that he did not either realise the idea of death.
There seems every reason to suppose, as the same author suggests, that man first thought he had a spirit himself and as a consequence held that animals, plants and inanimate objects also contained spirits.
For their exogamous groups the Dangurs have usually the names of different Rajput septs, the Kumrawats have territorial names, and those of the Patbinas are derived from inanimate objects, though they have no totemistic practices.
A girl may be married to inanimate objects as already seen, or to an old man or a relative without any intention that she shall live with him as a wife, but simply so that she may be married before reaching puberty.
Since primitive man could conceive neither of an imitation nor of an inanimate object, the image of a man was to his view the man; there was nothing else which it could be.
A similar respect is paid to the inanimate objects after which certain septs are named.
Forbes Leslie writes: "The influence which the moon was supposed to exercise on mankind, as well as on inanimate objects, may be traced in the practice of the Druids.
An ancient instance of belief in lunar influence uponinanimate matter is cited by Plutarch.
Hitherto we have reviewed only the imaginary influences of the moon over inanimate nature and what are called irrational beings.
As yet, the effects of actinism have been more studied in the inanimate than the organic creation.
Let me now direct your attention to inanimate objects; and these will readily strike you as relating to Buildings--in their varied characters of houses, churches and palaces.
The two inanimate slaves were laid side by side until a helmet full of water could be brought from a neighbouring fountain to be dashed upon them.
The steward spoke the truth, for, in the handling to which the inanimate Pretorian was subjected, he exhibited no symptom of consciousness.
One important point to be noticed is, that the elements which compose all animate bodies are the very elements that help to build up the inanimate bodies.
Aristotle embraced this doctrine, and conceived the universe to be the eternal effect of an eternal cause; maintaining that not only the heavens and the earth, but all animate and inanimate beings, are without beginning.
Let us now compare the inorganic world with the organic--the inanimate with the animate--and see if there does exist an inseparable boundary between them.
The poetic life that his perceptions were now able to enjoy, in inanimate nature, would be such a perpetual gratification to his taste,--such an incentive to explorations and discoveries!
If inanimate Nature were once to suspect his new insight, what a bustle there would be!
