My representation of the South as the conservative and the North as the innovating party is the only point in this article to which (so far as I know) serious objection has been made.
There are vicars and vicars, and of all sorts I love an innovating vicar--a piebald progressive professional reactionary--the least.
But the Vicar of Cheasing Eyebright was one of the least innovating of vicars, a most worthy, plump, ripe, and conservative-minded little man.
Conditions of Progress: Innovating initiative, and tradition--Classification of "states of civilisation.
Innovating people do conform to current usage, albeit they conform unwillingly and imperfectly.
The need of innovating is only a special case, rare in the lower races, frequent in the higher.
He conceived Christ not as a mere innovating teacher, but as the great centre of faith.
He was not intent upon any innovating theories as much as he was desirous to harmonize the old ecclesiastical system with the new philosophy.
Many members, and among them the amiable Wilberforce, who had before voted for the repeal of these laws, now voted against it, from a conviction that it would give an impetus to the innovating spirit which so universally prevailed.
Although Mr. Flood avowed that he was no friend to revolutions, and that he considered them an evil, yet it was evident that his motion arose from an innovating spirit; and as such it was opposed.
This truly interesting church was destroyed, to please an innovating incumbent, in 1864; but my earliest impressions of public worship are connected with it, and in my mind's eye I can see it as clearly as if it were still standing.
The perpetual generation of fresh poverty through rapid increase of population, and the inevitable resort toinnovating fiscal and other measures to relieve it, sufficed to provide grounds of class strife while free Athens endured.
And if an innovating expert, dealing with old facts, runs such risks, great must be those run by plain people when they seek to attain a generalised knowledge of facts which are the battle-ground of current ideals.
His own grievance against the Popes, he adds, is that they are innovatingand destroying the primitive constitution of the Church.
An alien monarchy greedy for gold, a panic-stricken hierarchy in terror for its life, warped the tendencies and throttled the energies of the most artistically sensitive, the most heroically innovating of the existing races.
The revolutionary and innovating instinct which showed itself in the 16th century with reference to church government and doctrine spread naturally enough to political matters.
Some apprehension being entertained of the innovating spirit of the young priest, it was agreed to set before him the most important duties of his office.
There is nothing more amusing or more instructive than to turn to the debates in parliament or the press upon some innovating proposal, after an interval since the proposal was accepted by the legislature.
And how many members constitute the innovating band an effective force!
It was in the most aristocratic quarters that these innovating doctrines were best received; for in them was the greatest amount of education, and its influence was not at that time paralyzed by general prejudices against innovation.
In the case of the Tübingen school as of every other there was "reaction," with the usual pretence by professional orthodoxy that the innovating criticism had been disposed of; but no real refutation has ever taken place.
It was impossible, however, that the influences at work in the neighbouring lands should be shut out; and if Holland did not produce innovating books she printed many throughout the century.
Like the similarly infuriated semi-rational defenders of the historicity of Jesus in our own day, he merely "followed the tactic of exposing the lack of scientific knowledge and theological learning" of the innovating writer.
Sayyid Muhammad of Isfahan, and states that, perceiving Mirza Huseyn 'Ali's innovating tendencies, they addressed to him a vigorous remonstrance.
Still if he had been as thoroughly skilled as he professed to have been, he should have shown himself a humane as well as an innovating sovereign.
There remains a minority, a very small one,[1201] innovating and restless.
The instinct for novelty is then no longer held in check by the instinct for ritualism; curiosity may be pushed to its extreme without any sense of innovating impiety such as primitive peoples regard it with.
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