And that it has been seen is intimated by this sentence, too optimistic no doubt, from a book on the subject by one of the major prophets of conservation, recently published in America.
So have these modern prophets with optimistic faces written of their vision, only the fulfilment comes not simply of the constructive measuring of statistics.
Ferris's eyes; and he had that look of tragic memories that so often put an end to his smiling and optimistic moods.
I explained, almost compassionately, the impossibility of a poor insurance man thinking of a summer residence like the Conwell place, and I combated as well as I could the optimistic reasons of my friend in its favor.
I had known him during our summer at the Conwell place, where we used to have him in for our little ailments, and I would never have believed that his round, optimisticface could look so worried.
Other people seemed to suffer the war in spasms, isolated amidst the round of their customary routines, of dejection or of optimistic reassurance.
Very possibly the prophecies of shortage and restrictions and starvation were, in the proof, to be refuted as a thousand other prophecies of the early days, optimistic and pessimistic, were being refuted.
They are the expression of his general philosophical and theological views, and are significant for the present purpose chiefly as evidences of an animistic and optimistic bent.
It may be true or not, as matter of fact; but it is a postulate of the school, and its optimistic bias runs like a red thread through all the web of argument that envelops the "normal" competitive system.
This optimistic conviction is a matter of presumption, of course; but it is universally held to be true by hedonistic economists, particularly by those who cultivate the doctrines of marginal utility.
But this revision of "final productivity" has further consequences for the optimistic doctrines of hedonism.
He took a very optimistic view of the situation, said that the enemy was making no headway anywhere, and that he was gradually getting round the German flank on the north.
It was about this time that both our Intelligence Departments and that of the French became very optimistic on the subject of a great withdrawal of the Germans from the Western Front.
These optimistic anticipations were grounded entirely upon the advance which the Russians were then making through Galicia, and the splendid fights they had put up in East Prussia and Poland.
My optimistic visions of the night before had vanished, and what he told me did not tend to bring them back.
The situation was fully discussed, and I was much impressed by the optimistic spirit of the President.
On October 10th and 11th, when I commenced operations in the northern theatre with the British Forces, I was, as I have said, decidedly optimistic as to the possibility of carrying out a strong offensive eastwards.
About seven strophes in the same quasi-impious strain, characterising the real reign of Jehovah upon earth as distinguished from the optimistic delineations of Job's friends, are lost.
To answer either in the sceptical or the optimistic sense was equally presumptuous.
There was no doubt but that she was a lugubrious figure, even to Prosper's optimistic and inexperienced mind.
The large house in which she lived was sufficient to prove to the optimistic Randolph that this income was something personal and distinct from her family.
Then the aisles were suddenly crowded, and there was a good- humoured, optimistic pushing towards the door.
The appearance and manner of his fare, the quality of the kit-bag, and the opening gestures of the interview between the two young dukes, had put the cabman in an optimistic mood.
Carlisle, indeed, being a practical girl, did not linger long on the optimistic prospect.
However, the sudden confusion had drawn the attention of all that part of the room, and concealment proved a too optimistic hope.
But in any realistic appraisal, even the optimistic analyst will realize that in a prosperous period the principal threat to efficient functioning of a free enterprise system is inflation.
But there are reasons to be optimistic about our economy.
It is a complicated and delicate problem, and all kinds of difficulties are sure to arise in connection with any plan of solution, while no plan will bring all the benefits hoped for by its more optimistic adherents.
It remained for Amarilly with her optimistic spirit to cheer him.
It's a good thing we got the washin's all hum afore Iry was took," declared the optimistic Amarilly.
Well, nature seems to combine most frequently with intellectualism an idealistic and optimistic tendency.
Among other obstacles to his optimistic philosophy, it falls to Leibnitz to consider the number of the eternally damned.
Mr. Reardon's sole reply to this optimistic prophecy was a noncommittal grunt, accompanied by a slight outthrust and uplift of the chin, a pursing of the lips and the ghost of a sardonic little smile.
The good and true part of Christian Science is its demonstration of the influence of mind on body, and of the usefulness of inducing mental states of an optimistic character.
Myers, to whose genius doctors as well as psychologists owe their first scientific conceptions in this domain, was extremely optimistic here.
Mrs. Fyne was disappointed by theoptimistic turn of my sagacity.
With certain old ladies the passing years bring back a sort of mellowed youthfulness of feeling, an optimistic outlook, liking for novelty, readiness for experiment.
So optimistic were we on immediate relief that I was offered for it only four annas.
He is most reassuring in his quiet optimistic way.
But we are not magicians to make the optimistic temperament universal; and alongside of the deliverances of temperamental optimism concerning life, those of temperamental pessimism always exist, and oppose to them a standing refutation.
Optimistic pantheism—Transformation of transcendent Deism into immanent theism and pantheism—Disanthropomorphized God, according to Messrs.
They may have uttered the very Z of melancholy about the animal called man; but at least they were sufficiently optimistic to write satires and to throw themselves into defeated causes.
Gillot came out of the war more optimistic than he went in.
They are put on record here as reflecting the grounds on which optimistic calculators were looking to the future in 1913 before the outbreak of the Great International War.
This is a substantial description of the optimistic state of the city shortly before the war of 1914.
A people who are prosperous and happy, optimistic and progressive, will produce much slang.
Our age is optimistic by virtue of the economic opportunities, power, and prosperity which it enjoys.
