The restraint of egoism by altruism lies in human character and polity alike for the rationalist and for the irrationalist, as Baur must have known well enough after his long survey of Church history.
It is to her superior polity alone that she is indebted for a dominion, unparalleled in the history of the world; and it is to its rigid maintenance and enforcement that she must look for its durability.
Justice claims what is due, polity what is seemly; justice weighs and decides, polity surveys and orders; justice refers to the individual, polity to the community.
Its action depends on there being places in the polity of nature, which can be better occupied by some of the inhabitants of the country undergoing modification of some kind.
Therefore, in matters ofpolity the counsels of Brahmanas should be resorted to.
And polity must be executed through persons that are friendly; but dunces should in all affairs be excluded.
And, O chief of the Bharatas, polity hath for its root diplomacy; and diplomacy also is the main qualification of spies.
Two thousand five hundred years ago the value of civilization was as apparent as it is now; then, as now, it was obvious that only in the garden of an orderly polity can the finest fruits humanity is capable of bearing be produced.
At the South the two parties, laying aside the questions of polity that had previously separated them, vied with each other in such support of slavery as should win the good will of the extreme pro-slavery party.
Of political evil, if we suppose the origin of moral evil discovered, the account is by no means difficult; polity being only the conduct of immoral men in publick affairs.
This is one of the great performances of polity which mankind seem agreed to celebrate and admire; yet, to all this nothing was necessary but the determination of a very few men to be silent.
The people at Louisville were glad to have the field missionary expound our New Testament polity to them at the second anniversary of the dedication of their chapel.
In church polity the Waldensean Church differs slightly from our Congregational sisterhood.
But the main stay of Iroquois polity was the system of totemship.
On the eve of the Norman invasion we saw how heartily the Irish were with Somerled and the men of Moray in resisting the feudal polity of the successors of Malcolm Caen-More.
They had only a moderate aptitude for asceticism, meditation and metaphysics, although they manfully translated huge tomes of Sanskrit philosophy, but they had a genius for hierarchy, discipline and ecclesiastical polity unknown to the Hindus.
Why did their politynot break up into a wilderness of tiny social groups, each jealous and particularistic, like medieval Europe?
As China was unified most of the time, and as there was no other polity to compare with the Chinese, their political system took on the appearance of a universal empire.
Their attachment to their country itself is only so far as it agrees with some of their fleeting projects: it begins and ends with that scheme of polity which falls in with their momentary opinion.
If you were to contemplate society in but one point of view, all these simple modes of polity are infinitely captivating.
There were many good and wise men in America who had no confidence in the perpetuity or effectiveness of a polity which rested upon the wisdom and virtue of the masses for its enforcement.
There was in North Carolina great indignation at the result of the enforced changes wrought in the polity of the State by means of the various congressional enactments.
When North Carolina had thus taken her place in the Federal Union, and the whole system of State and National polity became perfected in America, many hearts beat with gratitude to God for the promises of a glorious future.
Inability to join in the same form of church polity and church order need not shut the door to religious sympathies and religious communion, where there are so many points of agreement and of mutual interest.
Coleridge died in the communion of the Church of England, of whose polity and teaching he had been for many years a loving admirer.
The polity of the new community, often founded in defiance of the home authorities, might either be a copy of that just left behind or be its direct political antithesis.
Why should Mr. Balfour's doubts of a pre-Celtic polityput an end to all talk of Irish institutions and Irish ideas?
The superior English polity in due time, however, spread its hand over Iberian chaos.
A disorganized and contentious people, incapable of rightly using any polity Irish or English, we have not, it is said, even the materials of a nation.
But the Church of England is no creature of the civil power, either as to its polity or doctrines.
Hardly a form of belief or polity but has sought to obtain its sanction from the teaching and usages of those churches that received their systems most directly from the personal disciples of the Founder.
Fair and just in matters in which questions of doctrine or polity were not involved, in affairs of religion the Puritan became the type and embodiment of all that is unyielding and fanatical.
A Short History of the Legal and Judicial Polity of Great Britain, attempted by Thos.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "polity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
