But the emperor and his cabinet cling to ancient practices, notwithstanding the clearest evidences of their false and irrational character.
Hitherto we have reviewed only the imaginary influences of the moon over inanimate nature and what are called irrational beings.
However I do acknowledge that all men are born in an imperfect state, and are at first restless, irrational creatures: this, as you will remember, has been already said by us.
But, in reality, nothing is more irrationalthan to suppose this a safer time than any other for such general discoveries; for why should it be imagined, that our engagements are not still depending, and our treaties yet in force?
Meanwhile the world must still remain a scene of blood-stained melodrama, of deafening noise, contagious follies, vast irrational destructions.
His deep irrational love for England made him say these things.
Mr. Direck forgot his mission and his position, and indeed things generally, in an irrational satisfaction that his golden pheasants harmonised with the glitter of the warm and smiling girl beside him.
We have looked for an hour or so into the seething pot of Mr. Britling's brain and marked its multiple strands, its inconsistencies, its irrational transitions.
From this temper, men and factions, and nations too, have sacrificed the good of which they had been in assured possession, in favor of wild and irrational expectations.
But when we profess to restore men to the capacity for property, it is equally irrational and unjust to deny them the power of improving their minds as well as their fortunes.
Men of affairs conceive quite irrational dislikes for certain types of securities or transactions.
It is not a sudden and furious gust breaking on a peaceful situation, irrational both in its onset and in its passing away, but something which can be foreseen, and ought to be foreseen, by any prudent voyager on the waters of business.
I call him the tee-totum because, in fact, he was seized with the droll but not altogether irrational crotchet, that he had been converted into a tee-totum.
Irrational emotion drove her theories from her head, and struck her dumb with grief for what she looked upon as a betrayed ideal.
It is the acts of such madmen as he that make us appear to the public as merely irrational monsters.
However, we know scarcely any thing in relation to irrational functions, the integrals of which have been obtained only in extremely limited cases, and particularly by rendering them rational.
Alexey Alexandrovitch was standing face to face with life, with the possibility of his wife's loving someone other than himself, and this seemed to him very irrational and incomprehensible because it was life itself.
Such disobedience is more irrational than any mere intellectual error.
The will finds satisfaction in the act: the irrational soul is not affected by it.
The man is working with his calm reason: his irrational soul is not stirred.
But when was a work of the highest art based upon an idea unsound, irrational and vicious?
A passion is defined to be: A movement of the irrational part of the soul, attended by a notable alteration of the body, on the apprehension of good or evil.
Given to irrational beings, the law is simply irresistible and unfailing: such are the physical laws of nature, so many various emanations of the one Eternal Law.
It is clear that Dionysius does not regard even these irrational dactyls as three-timed merely; the nearest approach to that view is in the remark that some are not much longer than trochees.
All the rest are dactyls, and these with their irrational syllables hurried along, so that some of the feet do not differ much from trochees.
He who lives strictly in accordance with the rules of hygiene need not fear the bacillus, for man is not born to sickness; he creates sickness for himself by his irrational mode of living.
Do we not produce blood poisons enough by ourirrational diet and modes of living?
The 'nonsense' of each of them is really identical, and arises only because they both make the same irrational attempt to find more in the effect than they have put into the cause.
Thus do humane and rational beings act, unconsciously, like irrational and inhuman beings.
This mistaken conception of God as building himself out of his own universe and acting on it by external force is both irrational and unscientific, being, for example, quite at variance with the analogy of force and life.
The irrational or illogical mind, on the contrary, is unable to discriminate between belief and knowledge, between facts and fancies.
Some of his conclusions are so utterly irrational and absurd as to enable a very large number of persons to perceive their falsity, whereas the error is not so easily perceived in such statements as the foregoing quoted from Mr. James.
The irrational neighbourly love of the emotional mystic fails necessarily in its ostensible aim, because it does not arise from a knowledge of the true needs of the neighbour.
We know the reason--their brain is not yet trained to attention; it is too weak to suppress irrational associations, and refers all that shoots through its consciousness to some chance phenomenon either just perceived, or else remembered.
He must be placated; and man had no equivalent to offer for the injury he had done Him; for he had deserted God when rational and innocent, and could deliver himself back to God only as an irrational and sinful creature.
Not altogether through induction or deduction, but with an irrational immediacy of conviction, it feels and knows its object.
It is an irrational practice, even when adopted by military tribunals.
It would be amusing to make a digest of the irrational laws which bad critics have framed for the government of poets.
He had been worshipped with an irrational idolatry.
Hence we say of rational beings only that they take an interest in a thing; irrational beings only feel sensual appetites.
She had a sudden, instinctive desire not to go there, a quite irrational dislike to the idea.
Whatever her feeling was, it had sprung from that irrational pique with which she had received Reggie's remarks concerning Eva six months ago.
Not less irrational and unsuccessful is the plan of treating the disease with inhalations of "carbolized iodine," and other drags, administered through variously-devised pocket and other inhalers.
This modern warfare which physicians are waging upon the unoffending womb is a most irrational practice.
It is an irrational practice to repeatedly cauterize them, expecting thereby to promote healing, while the system is vitiated and the vitality far below the standard of health.
The French attacked in such a hasty and irrational manner that it is not safe to infer anything from what they did: but certainly they did not attempt, with all their vast superiority of numbers, to turn Edward's position.
No one could have imagined the ignorance and the irrational pride of their commanders, or the amazing assurance with which government and generals alike gave elaborate undertakings which they never meant to fulfil.
