And, finally, in the third place, there is a more spontaneous and intrinsically personal type of interest which is very largely independent of suggestion or authority.
In arithmetic we were able to observe a stage in which spontaneous behavior led to the invention of number names and methods of counting.
It must be admitted that they are rather old-fashioned, but this is usually the case with natural spontaneous verse.
Men ceased then to be spontaneous and to act on intuition.
The political machinery can only work efficiently on the assumption of a spontaneous activity of the ruling classes, prompted by public spirit or a sense of personal dignity.
Their absolute tendencies would introduce 'equality' by force; he would leave it to the spontaneous progress of security.
Though the lord-lieutenant and the justices of the peace were nominated by the crown, their authority came in fact as an almost spontaneous consequence of their birthright or their acquired position in the country.
That must come as a spontaneous act of grace, as it wells out of the heart of the Most High--or it can't come at all.
For a moment Diane forgot the restraint she made it a habit to impose upon herself in the new conditions of her life, and slipped back into the spontaneous manner of the past.
He abounds in pointed sentences, and is not less distinguished for the easy, spontaneous flow of his language.
I’ve come to learn of you, Karamazov,” Kolya concluded, in a voice full of spontaneous feeling.
This time her face was beaming with spontaneous good-natured kindliness, and direct warm-hearted sincerity.
But we now know that most of these facts really indicated disease--mental and bodily--or the results of hysteria or trance, spontaneous or induced.
Speaking now of materialization séances only--of which I have seen many--I may say that in all my investigations I have never seen one single instance of suggested or spontaneous hallucination.
One reply to this objection is that the distinguishing characteristic of life is this very power of original, spontaneous movement.
Moreover, no hard and fast lines exist between the delusions of induced hypnotism and those of spontaneous trance, or of the grave hystero-epileptic crises which mere terror is now known to develop.
Hearty, spontaneous clapping of hands through the crowded cabin followed this sentiment--a rather unusual demonstration for a prayer-meeting.
A spontaneous outburst of applause from the lobby gave an index of the stifled public sentiment.
Secession is no new or spontaneous uprising; every one of its leaders here has talked of it and planned it for years.
A recent addition to these popular apocrypha, originating, apparently, by spontaneous generation in several households, was of a panther which had frightened some of their members by looking in at windows by night.
Thus it was by the spontaneous act of the Egyptians themselves that they were released, as it proved to be, once and for ever from the atrocious misgovernment to which they had so long been subject.
Without this power, life would be a spontaneous and irresponsible development of evil.
The Christian has all the characteristics of life: assimilation, waste, reproduction, spontaneous action.
The theory of Spontaneous Generation contains nothing impossible or improbable; is, on the contrary, a necessary logical assumption not to be disproved by the mere result of experiment under conditions of the laboratory.
There is no reason for supposing that, if spontaneous generation once took place, the peculiar complication of conditions which produced it will ever again recur or can be artificially constructed.
The education of children has to put them in possession of the present moral achievement, and to make them independent individuals,--so to penetrate them with the moral order that it shall appear in them asspontaneous character.
The ideal of education is not, therefore, the production of spontaneous decision and action, but of reasoning, conscious action.
The limit of the evolution of conduct is not reached until, beyond avoidance of direct and indirect injuries to others, there are spontaneous efforts to further the welfare of others.
Thus, for example, the virtue of benevolence may be thought imperfect without kindly feeling, though a man may be benevolent without any such spontaneous movement.
The sums devoted to the education of Non-commissioned Officers, as well as Officers, are immense, and may be regarded as a spontaneous contribution of the National Feeling, no less than a State provision.
The volunteers, first organized in the year 1861, by the spontaneous desire of the population of the kingdom.
He is the poet of a second generation, one of those who make up by energy of intelligence for their want of original and spontaneous imagination.
This formula is chosen because it does not suggest specifically either description or interpretation, and is therefore adapted to show the child's spontaneous or natural mode of apperception.
Lack of such spontaneous interest is always an unfavorable sign, and it is not surprising, therefore, that imbecile intelligence has ordinarily never taken the trouble to associate colors with their names.
Do not tell the individual values of the stamps if these are not known, for it is a part of the test to ascertain whether the child's spontaneouscuriosity has led him to find out and remember their values.
The important thing is to be able to reproduce the appropriate succession of acts, acts which nearly all children of 7 years, under the joint stimulus of example and spontaneous interest, have before performed or tried to perform.
Do not ask questions calculated to draw out the correct response, but wait in silence for the subject's spontaneous answer.
Practically all children 3 years old, however poor their environment, have made the acquaintance of at least three of the five objects, and if intelligence is normal they have learned their names as a result of spontaneous inquiry.
Like the two tests of counting pennies, this one, also, throws light on the child's spontaneous interest in numbers.
When he finally learns their names, it is more because of his spontaneous interest in the world of sense.
Spontaneous interpretation ("What is this a picture of?
The pride of dress and equipage seemed now to be about the last idol to give up, and, all of her own counsel, she did the work very thoroughly; and as to her abundant jewelry, the result of her spontaneous zeal was rather ludicrous.
But I find that behind the gloom and the darkness there is plenty of spontaneous merriment at the theatres and other places of entertainment.
Democracies wash their dirty linen in public, while absolute governments tuck theirs out of sight, where it usually disappears, but sometimes unexpectedly develops spontaneous combustion.
It was not thespontaneous sport of Anglo-Saxon countries, but a more concentrated effort to imitate and to excel.
The answer may come to this--Well, suppose the first protoplasm did originate by spontaneous generation, where did the elements or force come from which compose it?
These little lumps multiply by spontaneous division into two pieces, which, on becoming dependent, increase in size and acquire all the characteristics of the parent.
He neither hides his own faults, nor desires his friends to hide theirs from him; [118] his verses are the honest spontaneous expression of his every-day life.
Nevertheless, unattainable as was the spontaneous grace of the Greek erotic muse, there were some who aspired to cultivate her.
His excellence lies rather in the bold and natural flow of his dialogue, fuller, perhaps, of spicy humour and broad fun than of wit, but of humour and fun so lighthearted and spontaneousthat the soberest reader is carried away by it.
Strictly native in its origin, such poetry is the spontaneous expression of a people's political and religious life.
For, while no poet seems less easy and spontaneous than Young, no poet discloses himself more completely.
After the first two or three nights he is rarely singing, rarely pouring forth any continuous melody inspired by the spontaneous flow of thought or feeling.
The soul is but the vital principle which results from the properties of matter, and from the action of the elements in those bodies where they create a spontaneous movement.
I was in the war, and bottles like that contained acid which, when combined with another acid, caused spontaneous combustion.
Where praise and exaltation are a spontaneous instinct, there is loyal service and every good work, not rendered by a hireling but a child.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spontaneous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
