While Mr. Collins tended to account for similarities in the work of authors by borrowing, my tendency was to explain them as undesigned coincidences.
The comparison of similarities is endless: I only make it because some may say that since the vapour-engine is not likely to be improved in the main particulars, it is unlikely to be henceforward extensively modified at all.
The writer attempted to support his theory by pointing out the similarities existing between many machines of a widely different character, which served to show descent from a common ancestor.
As an example of the similarities of reactions in plant and animal, Prof.
As I said before, Fechner is a poet, and a poet sees similaritieswhich a matter-of-fact brain cannot perceive.
The philosophers before me have taught me that a good brain sees the similarities and the differences at the same time and knows how to discriminate between them.
However much a stone may differ from a human heart, thinking reason will discover innumerable similarities in them.
This gate also has similarities with the south gate in the church of Breville, located a few kilometers north-west.
This gate hassimilarities with the south gate in the church of Breville, located a few kilometers north-west.
The choir has similaritieswith the church Notre-Dame-sous-Terre, present in the innards of Mont Saint-Michel and built by the Benedictines shortly after settling down on the Mont in 966.
There is no doubt but that this narrative is modelled upon the story of our Lord's Crucifixion, and the two incidents, in their similarities and in their differences, throw a flood of light upon one another.
First, notice the similarities and the lesson which they teach.
Similarities in diet would daily assimilate the lives of the two parties, and would be a more visible and continuous token of their oneness than the single act of circumcision.
The commercial relations between the north and south explain the similarities which archaeologists find between Scandinavian bronze objects and those of the AEgean district (Schliemann's excavations at Mycenae, Troy, Tiryns, etc.
Wyntoun borrowed from Barbour in some instances, but not in this; therefore, since there are similarities in the way the same story is told, the Bruce lines are drawn from the Cronykil.
But even in Mr. Brown's "selected" lines it is the divergencies rather than the similarities that stand out.
In my opinion, they are not so at all; but nevertheless there do exist similarities of a logical kind between them.
Let us be glad that there are similarities in the diversities, and that these similarities have been explained in some way; but let us never forget what is still awaiting its explanation.
And, indeed, if we were to glance at the development of plants also, the differences would seem to us probably so great that all the similarities would seem to disappear.
But the specific differences of the species are not wanting in any case of ontogeny, in spite of such similarities in different groups during development.
Now there can be no doubt that the diversities are the more important point in systematics; if there were only similarities there would be no problem of systematics, for there would be no system.
That is to say: the similarities between *A* and *B* must never have become overshadowed by their diversities.
That the Cherokees and Shawnees were distinct tribes, and that the few similarities in customs and art between them were due to vicinage and intercourse are well-known historical facts.
It would be unreasonable to assume that all these similarities in customs, most of which are abnormal, are but accidental coincidences due to necessity and environment.
Moreover, comparison of the two genera reveals striking similarities in the shape and spatial relationships of the external adductors.
In order to learn what suggestions from the Thirty Years' War may be of use for the League of Nations in the future it will be well to mention the general similarities and differences between this war and the recent European war.
It involves awareness of oneself and others, and the ability to identify similarities and differences, to explain the changing dynamics of existence, and to project the acquired understanding into the practice of formulating new questions.
It unified all those whose similarities in biological characteristics, language, lore, and practical experiences were constituted in a framework of shared resources and political goals.
Human beings identify themselves, and thus the species they belong to, by accounting for similarities and distinctions.
Even when we notice similarities to some past moment-let us take orality as an example-they are only apparent and meaningless if not put in proper context.
These pertain to their existence, and sharing in the awareness of these similarities and distinctions is part of human interaction.
Distinctions in practical experiences resulted in distinctions in the self-constitution of the human being through a language that captured similarities and differences, and became a medium for conventions.
Against the background of differences, human practical experiences resulted also in the realization of similarities in appearance and actions.
Although the similarities between the two are so evident that, without a certain shared experience of poetry, some of us would qualify both as identically silly or identically strange, there is a literary quality that distinguishes them.
Awareness of similarities was embodied in means of interaction.
But if further youthful similarities shall be sought by that hypothetical biographer, he will not linger over the next episode in this chronicle of Lincoln’s moral growth.
The similarities are considerable; it is fundamentally the same field of observation.
Thus, notwithstanding the general similarities which the Mesopotamian Valley presents to Egypt, its differences profoundly affected Babylonian history and Babylonian art.
These similarities only show that Babylonia had a large Semitic element in its population.
This story has some striking similarities to the book of Job.
How far these similarities are the independent products of similar situations, and how far the results of loans, cannot at present be determined.
However, the differences and similarities are so marked that the several methods fall into a simple classification which makes conspicuous their chief features.
It is from their differences and similarities that most can be learned in the brief discussions of the regions that follow.
Coming to similaritiesexisting between single incidents, there is, of course, a general resemblance between the penalties, etc.
There are many similarities between the Marlowe part of this play and Henry VI.
Thus the world-wide similarities of myths are, on the whole, the consequence of a worldwide uniformity of intellectual development.
Probably the feeling that a supernatural child should have no natural birth, and not the borrowing of ideas, accounts for those strange similarities of myth.
The test of finding similaritieswas first used by Binet in 1905.
For discussion of the psychological factors involved in the similarities test, see VII, 5.
And it is these contrasts rather than the similarities which make him in our studies so excellent a foil for Chariton.
My plan in taking up Achilles Tatius is first to analyze briefly his plot and then summarize its similarities to Chaereas and Callirhoe and the other Greek novels.
With all these similarities we must be extremely careful never to forget the differences existing alongside the agreements.
It is quite certain, however, that side by side with the given similarities there are also radical differences.
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