Imitation therefore, though an important element in the initiation of the arts, would not alone be sufficient to account for the phenomenon of progress.
This adventure set us thinking upon a record among the manuscripts we had brought with us of a remarkable phenomenon existing somewhere in these regions.
This change I conceive to be a secondary phenomenon due to the appearance of the visual wanderings already described.
Even that might be admissible if the Vexirfehler were the only phenomenon of this class which we met.
The phenomenon appeared only when the illuminated spot had been fixated for an appreciable period of time.
That a second term should effect a union between a first and third and thereafter disappear from consciousness is not an uncommon phenomenon of association.
But we have a similar phenomenon in vision when a group of small dots is perceived, though each dot by itself is imperceptible.
This phenomenon consists in the appearance of a remarkable light, which shows itself in the middle of the night, and at a particular part of the lake, near its southern extremity.
A singular phenomenon is observed in the Lake Maracaibo, which, since the days of Columbus, has not only puzzled the Curious, but also the learned and scientific, who have unsuccessfully attempted to explain it.
That was rather the description of a phenomenon than an answer, for which, moreover, he had not the time, since Marynia came in at that moment.
Doubtless the phenomenon was subjective," he said, with a somewhat ludicrous transition to the slang of science.
The phenomenon had attracted wide attention, and science had as many explanations as there were scientists who knew nothing about it.
The phenomenon may be likened to a fetish-worshipper, who succumbs to the diseases of Christianity.
We are no longer concerned with religion as the basis, but only as the phenomenon of secular shortcomings.
The first criticism of private property was naturally prompted by the phenomenon which embodies its essence in the most striking and clamorous form, a form which directly violates human feeling--by the phenomenon of poverty.
Regarded more closely, however, this phenomenononly contradicts the rough and ready opinion for which it furnished the innocent occasion.
Man does not submit to being, as consciousness, alone in the Universe, nor to being merely one objective phenomenon the more.
The same phenomenon is observable in relation to many of our lakes.
This phenomenonof the sea perplexed the philosophers before the time of Aristotle, and surpassed even the great genius of that philosopher.
The most probable solution of this phenomenon is, that it depends on electricity.
In the face of this stupendous phenomenon Captain Staunton's order to make sail passed unheeded; the entire faculties of every man on board the schooner were wholly absorbed in awe-struck contemplation of the terrific spectacle.
Here the physicist would be struck by the phenomenon of the tides, as the sea ebbs and flows only once in the 24 hours and is only appreciable at the first and last quarters of the moon.
The flapper's tone was calm and confident as one who relates a phenomenon that has become a commonplace.
Well, your experience of the fiery phenomenon is more recent than mine,' rejoined Nyttleton carelessly.
These explicit occasional mentions of faith are, however, as we might expect, only a part of the phenomenon of the great place which the idea of faith holds in the Epistle.
Surely he was on the point of discovering some phenomenon hitherto unknown!
There has always existed in the United States one remarkable phenomenon of Irish politics applied to the deception of both English, Americans, and Irish.
In the opening pages of Facino Cane this phenomenon is thus described: "With me observation had become intuitive from early youth.
When one considers a phenomenon of such range and intensity, it does not suffice to employ words like infatuation, fashion, mania.
It is possible that to-day the phenomenon is becoming rarer, and that Balzac, while no less admired, does not exercise the same fascinating influence.
That is the only word that quite characterizes the sort of influence wielded by Balzac over those who really enjoy him; and it is not to-day that the phenomenon began.
When the sun is above the horizon and the beams are directed downward, the phenomenon is popularly described as "the sun drawing water" and is regarded as a sign of rain.
A similar phenomenonin connection with the moon is called a paraselenic circle.
This was due to the diffraction of light by the exceedingly fine dust from the volcano, and the same phenomenon has been seen after other great explosive eruptions; e.
I first witnessed thephenomenon in September, 1855, when residing at Tarapoto.
An analogous phenomenon is the glowing of so-called "incandescent" or self-luminous clouds, to which several observers have called attention.
A halo phenomenon similar to a parhelion, but occurring at a distance of 90 degrees or more in azimuth from the sun.
An analogous phenomenon is seen in the shadows which near-by isolated mountain peaks frequently cast upon the sky opposite the sun at sunrise and sunset.
Whether recurrence, in Abercromby's sense of the term, is a real phenomenon is still an unsettled question.
If the Welsh were to reconquer England, or the Frisians Germany, the phenomenon which I imagine to have been presented by the history of Rome would be repeated.
The effect was to engender the story of the Trojan colony; unless, indeed, we choose to argue that such a phenomenon proves too much, and is evidence in favour of the reality of a Trojan war, and a subsequent dispersion of Trojan colonists.
The description of this peculiar phenomenon of the Indian Ocean, as given by Captain Collins, surprised us as much as the reality seems to have done him.
He should have been seriously embarrassed, to the point of having to leave; instead, he found himself intrigued by the phenomenon as the man's erection firmed and grew moist.
She wanted to go closer, test the phenomenon further, but getting information was more important than indulging her curiosity; she stepped back instead.
An equally extraordinary phenomenon presents itself in the Proteus Anguinus.
The means by which animals contrive to communicate their ideas to each other is a phenomenon which has never been satisfactorily explained.
The sea has sometimes a luminous appearance, a phenomenon that has been observed by all sailors, who consider it the forerunner of windy weather.
Perhaps the most singular phenomenon is, that the bodies seem not to have undergone the smallest decomposition or disorganization.
There is an odd phenomenon attending the human body, as singular as common: that a person is shorter standing than lying; and shorter in the evening when he goes to bed, than in the morning when he rises.
These were continually rising from the bottom, over a surface of four hundred and fifty square feet, and the phenomenon lasted for a couple of hours.
If the body of water in this cascade were greater, this phenomenon would not occur.
This phenomenon is often presented within the crater of Vesuvius, and was more particularly witnessed in 1829.
What is called chemical analysis is the process of searching for the causes of a phenomenon among its effects, or rather among the effects produced by the action of some other causes upon it.
If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree, is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.
This occurs when the agency by which we can produce the phenomenon is not that of one single antecedent, but of a combination of antecedents, which we have no power of separating from each other and exhibiting apart.
What is the fact or phenomenonconstituting the fundamentum of this relation?
Unfortunately it is hardly ever possible to ascertain all the antecedents, unless the phenomenon is one which we can produce artificially.
Now, the foundation of the attribute may be a phenomenon of any degree of complexity, consisting of many different parts, either coexistent or in succession.
The intermediate phenomenon which is interpolated between the remote cause and the effect, can here be not merely inferred but seen; for it is a familiar fact, that flesh upon which salt has been thrown is speedily found swimming in brine.
Every phenomenon is related, in an uniform manner, to some phenomena that coexist with it, and to some that have preceded or will follow it.
This phenomenon has been usually defined as "intercourse with the spirit world.
Hypnotism is a phenomenonresulting from the transmutation of one energy into another.
This phenomenon is not new but is as old as the world; and it is not supernatural but is subject to the eternal laws that govern all that exists.
The phenomenon repeats itself and we experiment with it.
Under the slavish influence of their own unworthiness they have entered into terms with self-interest, the dangerous foe of benevolence; they have done this to explain a phenomenon which was too godlike for their narrow hearts.
Love is the noblestphenomenon in the world of souls, the all-powerful magnet in the spiritual sphere, the source of devotion and of the sublimest virtue.
