The Railroad Regulation bills, the Initiative Amendment, the measures providing for the simplification of methods of criminal procedure and other bills of scarcely less importance were pending before that committee.
Composers before him had begun to aim at the simplification of church music.
We are now to examine into the causes which led to the simplificationof church music and forced composers to turn their attention more and more to the music of the people.
The reader will recollect that in Chapter VI I spoke of the great influence of the revival of Greek learning in Italy on the simplification of musical style.
Having accepted self-registration, meteorologists turned their attention to the simplification of instruments.
The introduction of this system has also made possible certain other incidental features of advantage, one of which is a great simplification and reduction in size of the subscriber's station signal-transmitting apparatus.
Practical requirements soon led to the simplification of such objects, to the suppression of all details beyond those necessary for identification.
Under the Theban Pharaohs it worked hard to attain it, and it knew no better means to the desired end than the continual simplification and generalization of form.
The concrete images of things could only be introduced into it by means of simplification and generalization.
Before making a fresh start he looked for some simplification of the labour; and determined to adopt Ptolemy's assumption known as the principle of the bisection of the excentricity.
Simplification was, as I have said elsewhere, the keynote of the revolutionary time.
Simplification of life and thought and feeling was to be accomplished without summoning up the dangerous spirit of destruction and revolt.
Economy in working and simplification of administration would be attained by abolishing the separate examinations, and allowing men and women to enter for the same examinations on equal terms.
The apartment house has set the fashion of simplification and reduction of necessary personal service in the home.
That a simplification and cheapening of the proceedings connected with new settlements and an avoidance of the harassing invasion of an army of subordinate officials, are a part of the deliberate policy of Government.
In the secondary stage we see a gradual simplificationof grammatical form and a disappearance of case endings.
And as the root of the whole matter, let him bear in mind that his novel is not a transcript of life, to be judged by its exactitude; but a simplification of some side or point of life, to stand or fall by its significant simplicity.
He then proceeds to discuss various artifices for the simplification of equations, giving methods which are still in common use.
But simplification is particularly required in the case of those fire-alarms which are to be useful for giving intimation of a conflagration from any cause arising.
In this department invention will aim just as much at simplification as at elaboration; and some of the pieces of domestic electrical apparatus universally used during the twentieth century will be astonishingly cheap.
Upon this point at least a Marxian simplification is nearer the truth than that of Jung.
The treatment of sex by psycho-analysts is most instructive, for it flagrantly exhibits both the consequences of artificial simplification and the transformation of social results into psychic causes.
Discussion of the false simplification involved in this doctrine suggests another unduly fixed and limited classification.
One of the great evils of this artificial simplification is its influence upon social science.
It was what we have all been feeling our way towards, the absolute simplification of religion, the absolute simplification of politics and social duty; just God, just God the King.
The incident is perfectly natural and probable; all one can say of it is that it is perhaps an over-simplification of the dramatist's task.
His reason for choosing the latter course is abundantly obvious.
It is, in fact, such a simplification and so necessary that we all make it as if by instinct, and the child makes it, not in mathematics only, but in all the considerations of life.
Abstraction is indeed one of the elements that contribute most to give mathematical science a fearful air to outsiders, and yet it is most usually a simplification of matters--quite the contrary of what is generally supposed.
Others are the exquisite simplification and economy of her terminal operation and the facility of her small goods-wagons for short-haul traffic.
Indeed, as we have already noted in passing, simplification is the method of every art.
A plot is not only, as Stevenson stated, a simplification of life; it is also a further simplification of the train of events which, in simplifying life, the novelist has first imagined.
But we feel, in reading stories so constructed, that the method of simplification has been carried too far, and that simplicity has therefore ceased to be an excellence.
Series showing stages in thesimplification of animal characters, beginning with the alligator and ending with the Greek cross.
Conventional alligator, series of derivations showing stages of simplification of animal characters, figs.
