But, even as thus restricted, the number of obsolescent structures which we all present in our own persons is so remarkable, that their combined testimony to our descent from a quadrumanous ancestry appears to me in itself conclusive.
Among these men, who by the circumstances of their daily life are brought to do their serious and habitual thinking in other than pecuniary terms, it looks as if the ownership preconception were becoming obsolescent through disuse.
The owners of the obsolete or obsolescent appliances presumably suffer a diminution of their capital, whether they discard the obsolete appliances or not.
From this time scourging may be regarded as obsolescent and soon to become obsolete.
Take the original mass of a now obsolescent organ in relation to that of the entire organism of which it then formed a part to be represented by the ratio 1:100.
This place, as already explained, is where an obsolescent organ has become rudimentary, or, as above supposed, reduced to 5 per cent.
Consequently, however great our faith in natural selection may be, a point must eventually come for all of us at which we can no longer believe that the reduction of an obsolescent organ is due to reversed selection.
But in all cases, if time enough be allowed under the cessation of selection, the force of heredity will eventually fall to zero, when the hitherto obsolescent structure will finally become obsolete.
As to disobedience to an obsolescent law, the question in every man's mind must be as to the degree of its obsolescence.
Laws are made obsolescent by change of circumstances, by the growth of convictions which render their execution impossible, and the like.
In the more civilized communities, or rather in the communities which have reached an advanced industrial development, the spirit of warlike aggression may be said to be obsolescent among the common people.
As soon as Miss Francis was ready to go into action the strain upon our obsolescent technology and hungerweakened manpower would be crippling.
It is made from Jones' dictionary, which is therefore allowed to rule whether the word is obsolescent rather than obsolete: some of these seem to be truly obsolete.
On the surface the English attitude is distinctly inhuman; it reminds one that England is still the stronghold of the obsolescent institution of caste, that it frankly and even brutally asserts the essential inequality of man.
But no obsolescent termination has ever yet been recalled into the popular service.
In this sense the verb is obsolescent in the dialects, but it is still used in the sense of to walk with quick, short steps, to walk briskly and lightly, or mincingly.
But in many districts this is said to be obsolescent in the dialects of to-day.
A Warwickshire Word-book, comprising obsolescent and dialect words, colloquialisms, &c.
The public denounced this attempt to strangle its liberties and reviled the Police Chief as the would be enforcer of obsolescent blue laws.
And yet the gray wolves of the Republican Party, and its Old Guard, and its Machine, proclaimed to the country that its obsolescent doctrines represented the desires and the ideals of the United States in 1912!
Now that conception is considerably above the obsolescent belief in an otiose god which is usually found among barbaric races of the type from which the Australians are said to have degenerated.
The obsolescent Atahocan seems to have had no moral activity.
There are traces of an original divine being whose name is becoming obsolescent and a matter of jest.
What thought of private gain will ever scrap our obsolescent railroads and our stagnating industrial monopolies for new clean methods?
It may crop up in the inquiries of some intelligent mechanic seeking knowledge among the obsolescent accumulations of a public library, or it may for a moment be touched upon by some veteran teacher.
