Certainly most minds need the stimulus of human association for both happiness and healthiness, and even yet the minds of farmers disclose the narrowness, suspiciousness, and discontent of place that isolation brings.
Whether isolation as a psychic experience has decreased for many in the country is a matter of doubt.
The isolation from the great business centers which has kept farmers from having personally a wide experience with modern business explains in part the suspicious attitude rural people often take into their commercial relations.
It is less so now because, as everyone knows, the farmer is protected from isolation by modern inventions.
The church that is struggling to maintain the old-time individualism is driven first to isolation and later to social hostility and moral stagnation.
The importance of migration and of the consequent isolation of groups of animals, for the origin of new varieties and ultimately of new species, which was indicated by Moritz Wagner, was fully recognized by Darwin himself.
A fitting end for anisolation of two centuries and a half," said Beekman mournfully.
In practice the paper-maker is confined to two or three methods for the isolation of the fibres, viz.
The isolation of the cellulose by alkaline treatment in the cold has been suggested, but the method never passed beyond the experimental stage.
And now the sacred isolationof this great tropical river was forever gone.
We desired the seemingly impossible combination of isolation and facility of communication with the outside world.
On Miss Plynlimmon's arrival at Charing Cross Station, she is overwhelmed with that strange feeling of isolation felt in the surging crowds of a modern city.
It has also suffered isolation from the rest of Greece in that while the network of railroads constantly extending out from Athens has already taken in most of Peloponnesus, and even AEtolia, it has not yet been extended to Thessaly.
But this very isolation has always been to the enthusiastic traveller an added charm.
It means absolute neglect and isolation for the few who follow a high heart's love through want and pain, through evil and good report.
Religious art, indeed, becomes almost secularized by its repetitions; yet each of its great works has the isolation of its own atmosphere, and speaks its own language, which we reverently learn while we look upon it.
The beginnings of a new spirit, which was destined to break up the isolation of the kingdoms of antiquity, were stirring in this monarch’s soul.
Now in Egypt the physical environment appears to have changed but little within historic times, and the geographical conditions were such that the people there were afforded a high degree ofisolation from outside influences.
At first they were to establish in the Holy Land a theocratic government, a State in which God alone was the Ruler, while they lived in priestly isolation from all the nations around.
In order that it may carry out the world mission mapped out by its great seers of yore, the Jewish people must guard against absorption by the multitude of nations as much as against isolation from them.
But the isolation does not stop with the philologist.
And we have also improved our measure of theisolation of the-- III.
Here, however, it was the isolation of the island that made it so.
I only give prominence to theisolation of the Basque and Albanian.
These, if we find them at all, will come under one of two conditions; the climate will be extreme, or the isolation excessive.
It was people, people of the crowds, who saved her from a sense of isolation her own friends brought: for she was always certain that in the crowds was some one else who was wondering, longing, perhaps a courageous some one who was fighting.
But army men lacked perspective; in isolation they had lost their sense of proportion, of relationships.
The period immediately after His martyrdom was marked by a confusion that was even more deplorable than the isolationcaused by His enforced captivity.
The Báb’s isolation and captivity had produced the opposite effect to that which the Amír-Nizám had confidently anticipated.
The isolationof the moat-house, the presence of guests with valuable jewels, the time chosen for the crime, and the scream of the victim, tended to confirm him in this belief.
These closing essays have impressed on us clearly and distinctly theisolation of the Paleolithic Age.
A cure for isolationsometimes suggested is the gathering of the farmers into villages.
Still further improved means of communication will tend to banish isolation and its drawbacks.
It would be venturesome to suggest very definite generalizations with respect to the precise influence of these conditions, because, so far as the writer is aware, the psychology of isolation has not been worked out.
The disadvantages of rural isolation are largely in the realm of the social relations, its advantages mostly on the individual and moral side.
If this can be done and isolation can be reduced to a minimum, the solution of all the other rural social problems will become vastly easier.
They have been the last class to organize, and jealousy, distrust, and isolation have made such organizations as they have had comparatively ineffective.
The business of farming encouraged individualism; comparative isolation bred independence; and restricted means of communication made union physically difficult, even among those who might be disposed to unite.
Here at sea a comforting isolation lay between first and third cabin passengers and one could remain unseen from those deck levels that lay forward and above.
He remembered telling Vivian Harrison, over the consomme, that pearls did not make oysters happy and that these illiterates of the hills might have hidden wealth in the shells of their isolation and gain nothing more than the oyster.
But isolation spelled refuge and the taciturn silences of the men who dwelt there, asking few questions and answering fewer, gave promise of unmolested days.
Yet who does not feel its isolation in that brutal city?
Our geographical isolation preserves us from any vivid sense of national contrast: our imaginations are not stirred by different civilizations.
And he, in his mental isolation from her, found scant self-reproach for his silence; reserve seemed more natural than communicativeness.
He was not asked to the wedding, and the invitation to Olive’s, reaching him in the days when the first darkness of isolation was upon him, he had left unanswered.
At the early tea-supper they sit in dual isolationat one end of the table, their chairs close.
And believe me, my dear Pepe, this peaceful isolation has greatly contributed to preserve me from the terrible malady connatural in my family.
But the isolation in which her mother keeps her is a hygienic measure, dear Pepe, and the only one that has been successfully employed with the various members of my family.
