The fact that we are considering is not the evil of the world, but the neutrality of the world, the indifference of the world, the inertness of the world.
Him in the inertness of dead space, without even a sacred function there, and exclude Him from the tried, and tempted, and ever-trembling soul of Man?
The naturalists in considering inertness as a property of matter, have perhaps regarded more than they are aware the idea of extension, which presents the inertness most completely.
Thus absolute inactivity orinertness requires the following conditions: I.
Experience, far from authorizing us to infer the absolute inertness of bodies, on the contrary inclines us to believe that they are endowed with activity.
After the ideas of inertness and inaction are explained, their opposites, the ideas of activity and action, are clearly understood.
Since we have no reason, from the inertness of the phenomenal, for inferring the inertness of the essential, can we know whether that essential be inert or not?
As astronomy has transferred the apparent movements of the planets from them to ourselves, so, says our author, has science transferred the seeming inertness of Nature from it to us.
Now, there is no doubt at all that there is inertness somewhere.
We have no ground, therefore, in the inertness which we feel, for affirming of nature that it is inert.
We cannot argue from inertness in that which appears to us, to inertness in that which is.
We must look for the source of nature's apparent or felt inertness in man's condition.
Now comes the very essence of the new theory; I give it in its author's words:-- The inertnessis introduced by man.
To say that man introduces inertness into nature implies a deadness in him: it is to say that he wants life.
As there is inertness somewhere, and as it is not in nature, of course the conclusion is that it is in man.
How does the notion of inertness come at all, then?
Here are the two things, Man and Nature; with which thing does the inertness lie?
Inertness is in the phenomenon; that is, in nature as it.
It is a subject of peculiar difficulty owing to the inertness of clay substance at all but high temperatures, and to the complexity of reactions which take place as soon as any reagent is brought into active connection with it.
Furthermore, Carlson’s results[104] confirmed the Council’s previous conclusion as to the inertness of secretin administered by mouth.
Once or twice she thought of Looey, but with native inertness she let the thought slip.
This last medicine was used in scruple doses--a proof of its greatinertness compared with the protoxide of antimony.
In this, as in most oral lessons, the elementary school child passes much of his time in a state which is neither activity nor rest,--a state of enforced inertness combined with unnatural and unceasing strain.
Activity is good for the child, and rest, which, is the complement of activity, is good for the child; but the combination of inertnesswith strain is good for neither his body nor his mind.
There is no forced inertness in Utopia, no slackness, no boredom, no yawning.
Mrs. Underwood, in the inertness of grief, did not move from Centry until she was carried up to town by her strong desire to preside at Lady Vanderkist's confinement.
He would have tarried on still, in the fascination of that wonderful unearthly countenance, and in the inertness of faculties stunned by fatigue and excitement, but James summoned him by a touch, and he again followed him.
Inertness and exertion, passivity and activity, are contradictory attributes, and can not be affirmed of the same subject.
Inertness in matter is not a force, but the opposite of a force--a passivity which requires a force in order to change.
The men of Europe, encouraged by the safety and inertness of the material world, did not fear to strike a parallel, from which they would have shrunk had they lived amid the dangers of a tropical country.
All this is due to the inertness of the planter and to the indolence of his laborers.
The former is the natural corrective to the emotional excess which leads to savagery, while the latter (the sublime, the stirring,) is the antidote to the mental inertness which leads to barbarism.
I do not believe in the invincible inertness of the Indians when they are properly encouraged.
The inertness of the heart and mind is attended with a delight, which is felt in the inmost soul and cannot be uttered in words; it is an everlasting joy that has neither its rise nor fall, nor its increase or decrease.
By dormancy is meant their want of reason, and muteness and blindness express respectively the want of their faculties of sensation and action, inertness means here the want of mental action).
This inherent power resides in the manner of productive power in the seeds of living beings, and in that of inertness in dull material bodies.
He set up a brewery, and contrived to live without debt, though a large family and his own constitutional inertness extracted from his business small profits and no savings.
Note: On account of its permanence in air and inertness to oxidation, it is used in the smaller coins, for plating iron, brass, etc.
Slow is the wider term, denoting either a want of rapid motion orinertness of intellect.
So the Slavonians, who tell only in the mass, and whose influence is ascertainable sometimes by adding to the momentum of active forces, sometimes by impeding through inertness the progress of mankind.
The Church had less to fear from the violence of the majority than from the inertness of their opponents.
In this celestial ocean were the germs of all the living things which afterwards took form in heaven and on earth, but they existed in a state of inertness and helplessness.
Out of this ocean Khepera raised himself, and so passed from a state of passiveness and inertness into one of activity.
Early on the next morning their rearguard drew off from Sombref; and, thanks to the inertness of their foes, the line of retreat remained unknown.
My mother well understood my inertness and worthlessness; she knew too that my pride would not long allow me to be a dependent on those upon whom I only had the claims of kinship.
It was only for a moment, however, and then the former inertness returned, as she repeated, "Pearl!
The alleged need of an incentive to stir men out of quiescent inertness is the need of an incentive powerful enough to overcome contrary stimuli which proceed from the social conditions.
It shows that the trouble lies in the inertness of established habit.
