Thus ticklishness would be the survival of long passed ancestral tentacular experience, which, originally a stimulation producing intense agitation and alarm, has now become merely a play activity and a source of keen pleasure.
Even to-day the Turkish bath, which is the most popular of elaborate methods of bathing, recalls by its characteristics and its name the fact that it is a Mohammedan survival of Roman life.
But in real life we still seem to trace its survival in the fashion for that class of garments which involved an immense amount of expansion below the waist and secured such expansion by the use of whalebone hoops and similar devices.
Darwin's theory--argues the survival of the unfittest.
The Survival Values of Play, Investigations of the Department of Psychology and Education of the University of Colorado, Arthur Allin, Ph.
This survival of prehistoric manners may be observed and experienced in any boarding-house.
Our anticipated survival gave us a sense of superiority to the insects, prevented our being sensitive to the silent scoffings of the roadside stones that so long outlast us.
It does not bring about the likeness, neither does it accentuate it: it brings about the survival of those forms which happen to shew the likeness.
Do we seem to be in the way of organizing a solid modern society on the principles of the "struggle for life" and of the "survival of the fittest"?
Of course, such a law as this flies directly in the face of the great gospel of the 'survival of the fittest.
This process is called Natural Selection or the Survival of the Fittest.
It might be called with more exactness the Survival of the Fitter.
Competition and survival were accepted as the basal facts of life.
Whole nations who were difficult to control in their native country would be shifted en masse to unaccustomed regions and amidst strange neighbours, where their only hope of survival would lie in obedience to the supreme power.
This object is of interest as showing it to be a survival derived from a metal sistrum.
This bell is interesting as being a survival of the bells so often seen hanging from the necks of the figures on the plaques.
The Caribou "exemplify the survival of the fittest; none but the perfect are allowed to live and breed, hence their perfection.
A large mass of such sizable parasites in the throat might easily become a serious obstacle to comfortable living or even to survival on the part of the host.
Sacred College, on the Wednesdays during Ember days, as to whether it is necessary to nominate new cardinals, and if so, how many; but this is only a survival of the ritual of the ancient form of ordination.
Those tribes have on the whole survived in which conscience approved such actions as tended to the improvement of men's characters as citizens and therefore to the survival of the tribe.
In using the word purpose for the result of this unconscious process of adaptation by survival of the fittest, I know that I am somewhat extending its ordinary sense, which implies consciousness.
The word tribe is here used to mean a group of that size which in the circumstances considered is selected for survival or destruction as a group.
Now it is clear that for the purpose of the conscience the word community at any time will mean a group of that size and nature which is being selected or not selected for survival as a whole.
These factions represent the survival of a political feud as old as the seventh century A.
Yet even among these some survival of the philosophy of the early Baghdad schools may exist, some tinge of the influence of Plato and of Aristotle, which led captive for a while the intellect of Islam.
We have nothing like it, save perhaps as a survival in the wilder mountain districts of Britain, where witches are still feared.
It must, therefore, be regarded as the survival of earlier opinion, which will in time give place to the facts clearly indicated by excavation.
In The Great Illusion whole pages of popular writing are quoted to show that the conception of the struggle as in truth the struggle for survival had firmly planted itself in the popular consciousness.
Yet the price of survival is, as we have seen, an ever closer cohesion and social co-operation.
Survival was contingent upon the cessation of struggle between them, and the substitution therefor of common action.
We are all animals together, slowly passing through different phases of evolution, and man owes his existence entirely to the accidental results of natural selection and survival of the fittest.
As a matter of fact, they are nothing more or less than the results of evolution, natural selection and the survival of the fittest.
Aside from that, there are many worse things for children than the survival of a beautiful superstition.
To their minds, it has become no more than the survival of a superstition, which is no longer tenable.
Because of the cruel law of the survival of the fittest, the less useful dogs had gone into the stomachs of their stronger companions.
In the early part of a Polar venture this disadvantage is eliminated by the facilities to augment supplies by the game en route and by ultimate advantages of the law of the survival of the fittest.
In this land, where food is at a premium, and where every helpless and dependent life means a sensible drain upon the tribe's resources, they have evolved that Spartan law which results in the survival of only the fittest.
The survival of such qualities has been manifest in multitudes of their sons, who, remembering the record, have borne themselves manfully wherever they have gone.
Some fear a future in which individuals will be forced to struggle for survival in an electronic jungle.
Lang regarded the Greek survival as an example of "the conservatism of the religious instinct".
It may be that Ea's sacred bush or tree is a survival of tree and water worship.
The late Mr. Andrew Lang wrote in this connection: "The very oddest example of the survival of the notion that the stars are men and women is found in the Pax of Aristophanes.
Training in self-aid/buddy aid will improve casualty survival rates and conserve medical resources.
Individual and collective tasks must be intensely trained on a regular basis; survival depends on the ability of personnel to use basic survivalskills against an NBC attack.
Given the disruption of transportation, communications, and operations during and following an NBC attack, it should be clear that preparation is the key to survival and effectively providing HSS.
He couldn't really see much point in survival anyhow with the inevitability of death biting at one's heels.
Just as the need for the enzymes of animal protein was one trait of many linking the human to and as an animal, so enmeshed in soul, sentiment, and survival he clung to Kazem for his sense of home and family.
Greed and aggression were entrenched in the survival of a being and lay latent but active within every cell but those cells were sugar coated with that cloying substance of Thailand, the land of smiles.
Moreover, cattle will not eat off the range that has been grazed over by sheep, so of the two industries it was a case of the survival of the fittest.
Whether it will be rejected must now depend on the "survival of the fittest.
Spencer's excellent expression of "the survival of the fittest.
In this latter case I have supposed that the survival of the fittest has come into play with female birds and kept the female dull-coloured.
But how unfortunate it is that it seems scarcely ever possible to discriminate between the direct effect of external influences and the "survival of the fittest.
