Our culture is the predominance of an idea which draws after it this train of cities and institutions.
How shall we account for the unique predominance of the expert in German life?
One would think that the cause which makes for itspredominance were obvious.
In the first there is a predominance of rhythm and melody, in the second of harmony and counterpoint.
In Richard there is a predominance of irony, accompanied with apparently blunt manners to those immediately about him, but formalised into a more set hypocrisy towards the people as represented by their magistrates.
But this want and this predominance do not by any means suffice to constitute simplicity; they merely give occasion to nature to obey without let or hinderance her moral constitution, that is, the law of harmony.
No doubt in the simplicity resulting from surprise, it is always the predominance of affection and a want of reflection that causes us to appear natural.
Now thepredominance of the faculty of analysis must necessarily deprive the imagination of its warmth and energy, and a restricted sphere of objects must diminish its wealth.
This imperial coinage was designed to break down the monetary predominance of Athens (Beloch, Gr.
The principle of autonomy was suspected at Athens and Belgrade as calculated to ensure Bulgarian predominance and to delay or preclude the ultimate partition of the country.
The predominance of magnetism is characterised by reproduction, that of electricity by irritability; and irritability, which first appears as muscle, gradually rises into sensibility as nerve.
To this we will venture to add, the predominance of length, as the form of growth in so large a proportion of the known orders of fishes, and not less of their rectilineal path of motion.
But the line we have already proved to be the productive synthesis of time, with space under the predominance of time.
The power seems to step forward from out the inorganic world only to fall back again upon it, still, however, under a new form, and under the predominance of the more active pole of magnetism.
Then, as if Nature had been encouraged by the success of the first experiment, both the one and the other appear as predominance and general character.
Animalization in general is, we know, contra-distinguished from vegetables in general by thepredominance of azote in the chemical composition, and of irritability in the organic process.
The same predominance of irritability, and at the same time a new start in individuation, is shown in the reproductive power as generation.
Driven out of the Transvaal by the Boers in 1837, Mosilikatze crossed the Limpopo with a military host which had been recruited from every tribe conquered by him during his ten years' predominance in the Transvaal.
In this and in other features of his work a dualism reveals itself which is also often observable in his actions in life--the alternating predominance of the spirit of the scholar and the spirit of the radical revolutionary.
The predominance of the capital was the new feature that enabled the monarchy to pass into a Republic.
He notes the predominanceof Flemish masters and the supremacy of their ideas in the music of Italy.
Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous; -- used to mark the extreme predominance of a bad quality.
Morbid temper of the mind; undue predominance of a passion or appetite; mental derangement; bad temper; ill humor.
Their predominance has been practically complete; and so far as I know, it has been unprecedented.
This temperament is indicated by a predominance of nervous force, mental activity, reasoning power, imagination, and a brain development rather than bodily strength or physical activity.
This temperament is indicated by a predominance of muscular strength, endurance, toughness, and powers of action.
This temperament is indicated by a predominanceof the purely physical or "animal" propensities.
Driven back by the predominance of Indra, the functions of Mitra in the Rigveda are found amalgamated with those of Varuna, but even in this amalgamation the nature of light is completely victorious.
Apart from any poetical exaggeration, the wide dominion of the mythical king Bharata is, no doubt, an anticipation of the predominance to which the Bharatas attained at a later time on the upper Ganges.
Hence arose the excessive predominance occasionally accorded to civic virtues in ancient systems of ethics, and also not a few of their most revolting paradoxes.
The predominance of the subtle intellect of Greece, and the multiplication of rhetoricians, had converted the philosophy into a school of disputation and of casuistry.
Even if we could discover a predominance of benevolence in the creation, we should still regard the mingled attributes of nature as a reflex of the mingled attributes of its Contriver.
The plot borrows enough from history to give it dignity, and to counterbalance in some measure the predominance of the passion of love which the invented parts of the drama exhibit.
Beginning with a predominance in war ships, it has steadily retained it, adding new and constantly greater war ships to its fleet with a feverish activity, under the idea that here is its true field of defense.
Thus it remained practically independent until near the end of the nineteenth century, when the question of predominance in it became a cause of war between the two rival empires.
Closely connected with thepredominance of the historical in Hegel's philosophy is its explicit critique of individualism and particularism.
A just and happy relationship of the sexes is dependent upon mutuality, coordination, and the complementary relations of man and woman,--not upon the subordination of woman and the predominance of man.
Not only is the student body composed of boys and girls, but the direction and instruction in these schools are divided equally between women and men; thereby the predominance of the men is counteracted.
The growth of the Latin American republics might seem to offer a future for the growth and even regeneration (and some writers have said the predominance again) of the Latin races in the world generally.
Apart from this, there are physical causes why it is difficult for Britain to pretend to hold predominance here, as well as sociological reasons.
But, placed as I was, in civil life, other ideas and instincts have taught me to look elsewhere than to predominance in war for the greatness and security of my country.
In our day, the impossibility of such a predominance of the middle classes is even more palpable.
The apparent predominance of physicians is easily explicable.
In the first edition of this Study the predominance of pedicatio was still greater; it is not practised by any of the subjects of the Histories added to the present edition, though several see no objection to it.
While the winter plumage is of a sober greyish-brown, the breeding-dress is marked by a predominance of bright bay or chestnut, rendering the wearer a very beautiful object.
Though a Tory he had an active share in the intrigues which gradually led to the predominance of the Whigs in alliance with Marlborough.
