But along with the growth of a central power, the demarcations of these local communities become relatively unimportant, and their separate organizations merge into the general organization.
The limits and definitions of each may be clear to the Japanese critic, but to our casual Western eye they merge or derive one from the other, like some little-known streams which make one river.
II The mediums of oil and tempera lend themselves to the production of broad-coloured surfaces that merge imperceptibly into one another.
In many respects the great man of those days felt less individual than an ordinary man does now; for classes did not somerge one into the other, and their character was more distinct and authoritative.
South Yemen's willingness to merge stemmed partly from the steady decline in Soviet economic support.
Peradventure the Epiphany, by some periodical infelicity, would, once in six years, merge in a Sabbath.
He is willing to merge his individuality; but he does not merge it, for he could not.
Now, the things she has lost merge and lose themselves in the person she has lost.
East of the Tetons, in the Wind River Mountains, is the head of Green River which rolls southward to merge into the mighty Colorado River, tumbling through the arid lands to the Gulf of California.
The Gros Ventres merge imperceptibly into the Wind River Mountains farther east, the crest of which forms the Continental Divide.
After a few miles the hitherto dead level of the valley is broken by low hills of reddish clay, and here the stone paths merge into well-beaten trails that on reasonably level soil afford excellent wheeling.
White men as a class dislike living side by side with them, and fiercely resent intermarriage, which might ultimately merge the races, as it seems to be doing in South America.
Patriotism must not merge into conceit and blind self-satisfaction.
The finest ideals, the loftiest heights of morality, merge into religion; but even these spiritual ideals have their ultimate root in the common soil of human welfare, and are rational ideals because they minister to human need.
No, no; they woo and clasp us to their spheres, Dissolve this clog and clod of clay before Its hour, and merge our soul in the great shore.
The plastic development of the trisula shows with what facility emblems of the most dissimilar origin may merge into each other when the opportunity of propinquity is given, and there is sufficient similarity in form and meaning.
We learn by the series of steps illustrated in the annexed cuts that the alligator radical, under peculiar restraints and influences, assumes conventional forms that merge imperceptibly into these classic devices.
For example, where property goes to A for life and the remainder goes to A's heirs, A's life estate and the remainder merge into a fee in A.
The Royal Academy of London was founded in 1768 to merge all private academies and societies into one official body and to recognize the best artistic work.
The cases in which the source is mainly central, rather than peripheral, nevertheless merge into the foregoing, with no clear line of demarcation.
These variations merge into each other by easy gradations.
It is completely restored in sinners when the Spirit of Christ gains control of their wills and they merge their life in his.
Arguing that, because we get our notion of force from the action of our own wills, therefore all force must be will, and divine will, it is compelled to merge the human will in this all-comprehending will of God.
These are either bounded by, or merge in, what I shall call the sides, according as these sides are sharp, rounded, or flat.
Those virtues (whose combinations produce the bodies of creatures) repeatedly start into existence and repeatedly merge into the original cause of all things, viz.
All their Senses also which have action for their essence and which are not identical with Brahma, merge into the same.
Into Hari all things merge at the universal destruction and from Him all things again come forth.
Similarly, those who are endued with wisdom and learning behold the Soul by the aid of the lamp of intelligence, though it is at a great distance from them, and seek to merge the fivefold elements, which are near, into Brahma.
To perform the Sacrifice of Self is to merge the Soul in the Supreme Soul.
He that takes his rise, from that Sankarshana, by his own acts, Sanatkumara, and in whom all creatures merge when the universal dissolution comes, is the Mind of all creatures and is called by the name of Pradyumna.
All things mobile and immobile that are on the earth first disappear and mergeinto the substance of which this planet is composed.
The commentator explains that the object of this verse is to point out that the senses, when destroyed, merge into their productive causes or the substances of which they are attributes.
Destroying all desires, one should merge the gross Understanding into one's subtile Understanding.
South of this great plain lie the fertile hills of Samaria which in turn merge into the stern hills of Judah.
In certain forms of the disturbance known as sleeping sickness, people merge into a sleep which continues for weeks, months or even years, and which sometimes culminates in death.
Thoughts of the day merge directly with the dream thoughts.
Likewise sleeping thoughts gradually merge with waking thoughts in the moments preceding awakening.
But I doubt if the Sticktorights would ever merge their property in ours.
The short summer night was just about to merge into dawn when Dumani, weary almost unto death, reached the top of the last ridge.
The glimmer of dawn began to merge into the gold of morning, and by the time we reached the dwelling the level shafts of sunlight were searching the crests of every tree and kopje.
From within the cabin the golden light of a lamp came out to merge into the blue-gray twilight, and to set a shimmering radiance about the white-robed figure of Rosamund.
He pointed out the contiguity of their two estates, and how fine and advantageous a thing it would be tomerge these two into one.
Each must be balanced within himself and herself before they canmerge into each other.
Whatever we note as a fundamental principle of this external life which we cognize with our five senses (senses which merge so into the psychical that we know not always where the line demarks) has a permanent place in the Cosmos.
But who is so stupid that he would remain wandering in the bleak and barren desert, when he might by a turn of his hand enter fields Elysian and merge his soul into the boundless areas of infinite bliss and wisdom?
