They are aware that the object has no intrinsic power, but its virtue lies in their faith of their ceremonies, as exhibited through this charm as a visible medium to the supernatural.
This is not to be taken in a merely quantitative sense, as it has hitherto been erroneously; but in an intrinsic sense, as implying that all things are numbers themselves, or the acts of the Eternal.
He assigned to the negative an intrinsic importance by itself, apart from all implication with the affirmative; and he rested that opinion upon a psychological ground, formally avowed, and far larger than anything laid down by the Sophists.
If, therefore, there be a science which has for its province the intrinsic qualities of actions, questions of expediency have no place in such a science.
This obligation is entire and perfect in all cases, on the ground of intrinsic fitness, and of the known will and command of God.
The duty of veracity* is not contingent on the rights of any second person, but is derived from considerations of intrinsic fitness.
According to the former, virtue is to be practised for the good that will come of it; according to the latter, for its own sake, for its intrinsic excellence.
There is no intrinsic or permanent distinction between right and wrong.
Beneficence, then, is a duty based on considerations ofintrinsic fitness.
I came northwards, and finally settled in Delhi, where I set up as a dealer in gems and objects of intrinsic value.
They contain nothing remarkable for ornament, or what is more essential, for intrinsic worth.
It is because intrinsic merit is preferable to form and ornament: that at once establishes its worth and its success.
Would not any man swear now, that I am a man of quality, and you my servant, when if our intrinsic value were known-- Arch.
Come, come, we are the men of intrinsic value who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money and hearts to spend it.
We have as yet been considering these scenes as so many separate pieces of poetry; and they are valuable even in that light, not less from their intrinsic merit than as being the work of our greatest poet.
Trade with England was necessarily conducted by means of a reputable currency; and the whole of the new Irish coinage being only available for local use, felt the effects of inflation as well as of its own intrinsic baseness.
The belief in fixed values has bred a division of ends into intrinsic and instrumental, of those that are really worth while in themselves and those that are of importance only as means to intrinsic goods.
Because of the lack of intrinsic rationality in the matters with which it dealt, it leaned over backward, so to speak, in parade of logical form.
For when in religion the idea of the intrinsic worth of every soul as such was proclaimed, it was difficult to keep the idea from spilling over, so to say, into secular relationships.
When they are recognized to be as intrinsic and final in their place as any others, then it will be seen that they are capable of idealization, and that if life is to be worth while, they must acquire ideal and intrinsic value.
At present those who would be liberal conceive intrinsic goods as esthetic in nature rather than as exclusively religious or as intellectually contemplative.
So-called intrinsic goods, whether religious or esthetic, are divorced from those interests of daily life which because of their constancy and urgency form the preoccupation of the great mass.
This organization intrinsic to life renders unnecessary a super-natural and super-empirical synthesis.
We insisted at the last hour upon the unique character of every intrinsic good.
Production was of importance not because of the intrinsic worth of invention and reshaping the world, but because its external results feed pleasure.
Harmfulness of division of goods into intrinsicand instrumental.
Everywhere we see this race branching forth, and, by an intrinsic superiority, acquiring a predominance over the races in prior occupation.
It should be rather an expression of goodwill to Lord Blandamer than anything of muchintrinsic value.
It had no apparent intrinsic value, but for me it was associated with my friend the late Mr Sharnall, organist of Saint Sepulchre's.
She had no exaggerated notions as to its intrinsic worth, but it was valuable in her eyes as being a present from her father.
Besides the intrinsic merit which attached to the victories, they had all the advantage of a genuine surprise to the public.
Their sense of proportion seemed to be destroyed, so that they could no longer perceive the intrinsic relation which one incident had to another.
Without the gift of oratory, paying little heed to the graces of speech, Mr. Shellabarger conquered by the intrinsic strength of his argument, which generally amounted to demonstration.
A Rajahship,[94] without the necessary equipage and material and moral grandeur of royalty is but a gilt ornament that dazzles at first sight but possesses little intrinsic value.
It seems to me that it is emphatically not a case for instant execution, by conviction of intrinsic absurdity or of self-contradiction, or by caricature of what it would look like if reduced to skeleton shape.
My mind may have before it only the name, or it may have a clear image, or it may have a very dim image of the hall, but such an intrinsic difference in the image makes no difference in its cognitive function.
It is obvious that, altho interests strictly practical have been the original starting-point of our search for true phenomenal descriptions, yet an intrinsic interest in the bare describing function has grown up.
These five matters the legislature has deemed of such intrinsic importance that it has required them to be set out in the company's Memorandum of Association.
It is not a question of authority, and of credentials, but of intrinsic reality.
The intuitive basis and the intrinsic necessity of religion in some form have already been considered.
Each subject examined must tell its own story and in its own way, and stand or fall measured byintrinsic evidence and revealed fact.
They need rest upon no authority beyond the intrinsic evidence of truth, on every page.
We have, therefore, in an endeavour to reconcile the teaching of the Church with the supposed teaching of Christ, to fall back on the internal evidence of the intrinsic truth contained in His accepted sayings and doings.
What is written, or by whom written, matters less than an assurance of its intrinsic truth when such is interpreted as doctrine applicable to the spiritual needs of men to-day.
Most seekers after the Word of God meet at one time or other with some such argument against the propriety of their endeavours to obtain evidence of the intrinsic truth of Christian teaching.
Not many years ago there hung from the lofty ceiling a famous and most beautiful golden lamp of exquisite workmanship, the intrinsic value of which is said to have been over one hundred thousand dollars.
Any article deposited for this purpose is valued by two disinterested persons, and about three fourths of its intrinsic worth is promptly advanced.
It is impossible to decide on intrinsic grounds between them.
The second was a composition in the minor key, and which, for its own intrinsic merit, made the strongest appeal to our feelings.
It is difficult for an artist to live in an environment in which everything is judged by its utility, rather than by its intrinsic quality.
Thus these objects cannot be regarded as money as they have an intrinsic value.
Neither mere utility nor intrinsic beauty appear to be a necessary qualification for the establishing of plant-life in decorative art.
Money is essentially a symbol of value; coin is always of less intrinsic worth than its nominal value, and as money transactions increase the nominal value bears absolutely no relation to the real value, as in the case of paper money.
In view of his success and the use for a time made of his works, he must rank as a forger, though they are now in esteem solely for theirintrinsic cleverness.
Particularly, the writer may rely upon such a story's appealing to the cultured and the uncultured mind alike, for the intrinsic human importance of its theme is felt by all.
He cannot drag in by the heels episodes unessential to the story solely for the sake of their intrinsic interest; he cannot waste words upon unessential persons.
The writer should not depend on the intrinsic wit and vivacity of his characters' speech.
And the writer who has Dumas' intrinsic gaiety and verve may write adventure and write literature too.
Fiction is concerned primarily with theintrinsic interest and significance of man and his acts, the elements of drama, but there are three fundamental types of story, two of which are normal and the other abnormal.
The intrinsic difficulty to blend such diverse matters as people, events, and setting or environment into an even emotional unity requires that the strict story of atmosphere be a short story.
Dibdin says of this that it "has little to recommend it, either on the score of rarity or intrinsic worth.
Yet intrinsic desert plays its part, though an inferior one.
