Historical and ethnographical criticism, proceeding on popular lines, has tried from time to time to fix certain tendencies to certain races, and to argue from individuals to generalities with a freedom that every law of induction belies.
It is a restraint upon their evil tendencies that tells well upon their riper years.
Their literary tendencies no doubt attracted Benjamin, and caused him to value their companionship more highly.
As the result of such tendencies and of the rapid depletion of our free domain, farming in the United States is losing its old-time kinship to mining and becoming more like manufacturing.
The European war has suddenly stimulated the tendencieswhich were previously evident.
On the other hand, it would be impossible to forecast the ultimate effect of the European war should any one of certain tendencies which are still at least possible be fully carried out.
In this case, the opposite tendencieswill counteract each other.
Like the centripetal and the centrifugal forces in nature, their tendencies and propulsions are in different and opposite directions.
Finally, a further cause of misunderstandings, as I have already mentioned in the Introduction, was to be found in the general disfavor with which American pacifist tendencies were regarded in Germany.
Naturally his mediation tendencies must not extend to concrete proposals (because these would be unfavorable to us.
Plato's programme for the years from seventeen to twenty, three of our four college years, is even more startling and heretical; and quite in line with certain tendencies in our own day.
Aristotle rejects the Epicurean principle of pleasure; because, though a proof that isolated tendencies are satisfied, it is no adequate criterion of the satisfaction of the self as a whole.
Church, rudely testing its organization and ultimately strengthening and furthering its tendencies toward a strictly hierarchical constitution.
These conceptions served as a foundation for new discussions, and confirmed tendencies already present in the Church (ยง 102).
With the exception of a few newspapers of advanced tendencies and comparatively small circulation, the whole of the French press combined to boycott Rolland.
He was thus endowed by both parents with tendencies to fervent faith, but tendencies to faith in contradictory ideals.
He fastened upon thetendencies in Northern thought that supported his own faith.
The ghosts that hovered so frequently at the back of his mind, the brooding tendencies which fed upon his melancholy and made him at times irresolute, were issuing from the shadows, trooping forward, to encompass him roundabout.
He would impose on all mankind, as their basic moral obligation, the duty to sacrifice all personal likes, personal ambitions, when these in their permanenttendencies ran contrary to the tendency which he rated as paramount.
This popular temper could not fail to exercise its influence upon Congress and to stimulate the radical tendencies among its members.
In the suicidal tendencies of the sexes there is, as might be expected, a very great difference.
Ferocious tendencies in animals are entirely the product of man's imagination.
Such immigrants, as a rule, prosper here and become happier here, but the increased prosperity and happiness do not greatly affect the suicidal tendencies that they had when they were poor and wretched in their original homes.
But by virtue of the national tendency to compromise, these conflicting tendencies work in a fairly harmonious manner.
It is not our object here to point out how widely these tendencies affect men, but it is worth while to indicate some of their bearings on the condition of women.
When in human families, especially under civilized conditions, we see large families we are in the presence of a reversion to the tendencies that prevail among lower organisms.
In the sexual selection of the future the same results will be attained by more or less deliberate and conscious recognition of the great laws and tendencies which investigation is slowly bringing to light.
The separate initiative and promulgation of the two tendencies encourages a much more effective action, and best promotes that final harmony of the two extremes which the finest human development needs.
Regard for the ennoblement of the race serves as a bridge from a chaos of conflicting tendencies to a truer conception of love, and "love must become on a higher plane what it was in primitive days--a religion.
Such facts as these--which can easily be multiplied and are indeed familiar to all, though their significance is not usually realized--indicate the special tendencies of the child in the religious sphere.
At the present time two great tendenciesare visible in our social organization.
We may distinguish two different tendencies in traditional psychology.
Independently of simple submission to the Catholic church, there were three great tendencies which divided serious minds amongst them during the reign of Louis XIV.
The Jews of Bohemia, whose spiritual centre was the Ghetto of the city of Prague, as well as the Jews of Hungary, exhibit certain liberal tendencies in their faith, and are midway between orthodox and reformed Judaism.
Poles, Bohemians and Slovaks all travelled in the second cabin; but invariably they were saloon-keepers and displayed the demoralizing tendencies of their business to their full extent.
The poetry of the era often exhibited tendencies of a medieval character,--for example, in its use of allegory.
Sidenote: Pronounced acceleration of the tendencies toward a centralized state.
Sidenote: Diversity in the laws and tendencies toward unification.
The chief political result of the war was to make a popular hero of General Prim, a man of Liberal tendencies and of less resolute devotion than O'Donnell to the Bourbons.
These tendencies were accelerated by the Bourbons, whose first opportunity came as a result of the War of the Spanish Succession, when Philip V was opposed by many of the non-Castilian parts of Spain.
In proportion as the mind acquires an active power, the empire of these tendencies becomes limited.
The tendencies of our original sensations, indeed, all have for their object the preservation of our individual being.
But no statement of the end, or any description of the tendencies to seek it, can explain the behavior which results.
Therefore, if among a number of people, possessing various tendencies to respond, you can find a stimulus which will arouse the same emotion in many of them, you can substitute it for the original stimuli.
The advocates of monarchical and aristocratic institutions, have always had great plausibility given to their views, by the seemingtendencies to insubordination and bad-manners, of our institutions.
But the prosperity and democratic tendencies of this Country produce results, materially affecting the comfort of housekeepers, which the females of monarchical and aristocratic lands are not called to meet.
Such literary tendencies as I have are derived from her, but I do not possess a tithe of her intellectual power.
Under the witching moonlight he began to manifest tendencies to sentiment and tenderness.
To control these tendencies towards a false and artificial style of presentation, which formed the inherent vice of improvisatory acting, was the duty of an able Capocomico.
Let your mercenary tendencies be combined with honesty and they cannot take you astray.
There is no vulgar error so vulgar,--that is to say, common or erroneous, as that by which men have been taught to say that mercenary tendencies are bad.
Even the tendencies of atoms doubtless represent accumulations of inheritance----but here thought checks with a shock at the eternal barrier of the Infinite Riddle.
They can only make him a slave, while the effects of their arbitrary prescriptions on the popular mind will be to wither up all interest in the religious tendencies of an observance sustained only by the enactments of heartless politicians.
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