My reluctance startled my father into a suspicion that the vulgartheory of independence had already been whispering to me.
The fumes of unrighteous pride may rise into your brain and tempt you, in the interest of a vulgar theory which it will call your independence, to shatter the edifice I have so laboriously constructed.
A mere theory of life, that remains but a theory, is about as useful to a man, as a gilt-edged menu is to a starving sailor on a raft in mid- ocean.
She still holds to her theory that marriage is based on wrong principles, and that the contract as ordinarily made is frightfully immoral; but she says if all men were like "her Jules" there would be no trouble.
No," responded Mr. Gouger, disposing of that theory in one breath.
That this distinction is as sound on the evolutional theory of society as on any other is quite evident.
They do nothing to improve the theory of conduct, but they have the art of stimulating men to a more enthusiastic willingness to rise in daily practice to the requirements of whatever theory they may accept.
The influence of France upon England since the revolution of 1848 has tended wholly to the discredit of abstract theoryand general reasoning among us, in all that relates to politics, morals, and religion.
Every discussion of the more fundamental principles of conduct must contain, expressly or by implication, some general theory of the nature and constitution of the social union.
The difference is a difference of opinion, as purely as if we refused to accept the undulatory theory of light; and we treat it as such.
The advocate of a given theory of government or society is so misled by a wrong understanding of the practice of just and wise compromise in applying it, as to forget the noblest and most inspiring shape which his theory can be made to assume.
We have to assume that the instructed class believe the catholic dogmas to be untrue, and yet wishes the uninstructed to be handed over to a system that reposes on the theory that these dogmas are superlatively true.
Now compromise, in view of the foregoingtheory of social advance, may be of two kinds, and of these two kinds one is legitimate and the other not.
They have had the natural effect of deepening the English dislike of a general theory, even when such a theory did no more than profess to announce a remote object of desire, and not the present goal of immediate effort.
It will probably be said that according to the theoryof the school of which M.
Although a man is not likely to be thanked who calls attention to the vast discrepancies between the theory and practice of the constitution, yet nobody now would countenance the notion of an inner doctrine in politics.
The moral theory of the Church was correct enough, however it failed in practice.
Diderot laid down a theory that an actor never feels the part he is acting.
I do not think this theory is very widely held, for it is in conflict with the dramatic instinct, which everybody possesses in a greater or less degree.
I do not recommend actors to allow their feelings to carry them away like this; but it is necessary to warn you against the theory expounded with brilliant ingenuity by Diderot, that the actor never feels.
The theory that organisms are formed by the development of the egg itself, and not by the expansion of a miniature within the egg (preformation).
It appears to me that his only reason for doing so is to provide a basis, not for his theory of heredity, but for his additional theory of evolution.
Upon the whole then, it appears to me that both the fundamental postulates of the theory of germ-plasm are unsound.
It is of more importance to consider the means whereby Weismann seeks to save his theory of evolution after he has thus removed its foundation in his former postulate of the absolute stability of germ-plasm.
It only remains to add that the degree of stability has been proved in not a few cases to be less than even the theory of gemmules might anticipate.
But germ-plasm resembles stirp much more closely than it does gemmules, seeing that the theory of stirp is founded on the postulate of “continuity” in exactly the same manner as is the theory of germ-plasm.
His theory demanded design and the perfection of literary finish.
The real quality of this comedy is in its personages and in the theory upon which they are conceived.
This brilliant Italian, when but fifteen years of age was reveling in the dreamland wonders of electricity and when but twenty had the theory practically worked out and his patience and enthusiasm were simply amazing.
The theory is, so they say, that to cover the breasts is to poison the milk.
We must consider that the old theory was that the citizens should in the daytime keep order for themselves.
The critic calls our attention to another fact also adverse to the theory under consideration.
But in spite of all these coincidences, this carefully constructed theory was wrecked on the same point on which the theory that the prisoner was either the Duke of Monmouth or the Comte de Vermandois came to grief, viz.
It had for my imagination a value, for my theory a price, and it in fact constituted an impression under the influence of which this theory, just impatiently shaken off, perched again on my shoulders.
I don't at all feel comfortable about your new theory itself, which puts me so wretchedly in the wrong.
The moments have fled, you see, in our fascinating discussion, and various things, on your theory of her pounce, have come and gone.
But also in Long's own, if he's really tender of the lady--which is precisely what our theory posits.
Well, as you had planted the theory in me, it began to bear fruit.
I was fairly upset by the need to consider at this late hour whether going in for a new theory or bracing myself for new facts would hold out to me the better refuge.
No, I've only a sense of reality--a sense not at all satisfied by thetheory of such an influence as Lady John's.
Have you hit upon any theory to account for the sending of these letters?
He sat for a long time in the deserted library, trying to hit upon some reasonable theory to explain the matter, but his efforts resulted in failure.
The theory which the spots of sealing wax had suggested had in that moment received an unexpected confirmation.
Then there was the common theory that technological advances would result in a push-button society, where automatons would do all the work.
Scientists in other countries tested the theoryand agreed; there was no collusion, it just worked out that way on a practical basis.
Harry told him about Richard Wade's remarks, and together they tried to puzzle out the theory behind them.
Thence the general tendency to place truth and error on the same footing, in theory and in practice.
Gifted with much psychological curiosity, and holding the theory that every thing should be seen, he was present at Rome at the execution of three murderers, who were to be put to death, on the eve of his departure.
Sometimes, after a theory is advanced, perhaps seems to be approaching complete establishment, some fact or set of facts is discovered which compels the setting aside of all old theories and the formulation of a new one.
This hypothesis or theory having been formulated, many thousands of observations are taken in an effort to establish it as a definite law or a principle.
When a theory has been definitely established as a law, other laws are sought in the same way until, finally, there are enough laws established to form the basis of a general principle.
Every phase of the relationship between employer and employee is treated from the standpoint of sound theory and successful practice.
The theory that there is not enough wealth to go around, and that if one man has a great deal of money others must therefore have too little, is a vicious and dangerous fallacy.
She had a healthy distaste for illness either in theory or practice.
He had taught her too well his own depressing theory that life "mostly consisted of putting up with things," and in practice thereof the pupil had outshone her master.
It is not possible to give any adequate account of these different kinds of alternating current without going rather deeply into the theory of electricity.
The principles underlying them are quite simple, although the theory of their design and the practice of their construction and operation are almost a science in themselves.
The room in which most of the theory is taught is particularly interesting.
The fundamental theory seemed to be that a girl ought to be allowed to do anything without taking the consequences.
Oh, yes; but such a flimsy, improbable theory that no sane man could entertain it for a minute.
While there has perhaps been no previous effort to bring the several beliefs into parallel presentation, concerning the rise of cotton mills in the South a little body of theory has grown up.
The reception with which Mr. Atkinson's theory met is seen in an editorial comment on his December address: "The future of the South is described with great power in the .
You have the advantage of a tolerably consistent theory; whilst I have no theory at all, and am full of contradictions.
I have a theory that when an engagement has lasted ten years, with constancy on both sides, and poverty still prevents marriage, the State ought to make provision for a man in some way, according to his social standing.
In any case it occurred to me that if his theory is true she might have left Cannes and gone away, quite forgetting for the moment that she was going to communicate with us.
There was no shadow of a doubt that this theory was correct.
The organic theoryof society and state permeates the Anthropo-geographie, because Ratzel formulated his principles at a time when Herbert Spencer exercised a wide influence upon European thought.
This blanket theory of climate cannot, therefore, cover the case.
The political theory of the freedom of the seas seems to have needed vigorous support even toward the end of the seventeenth century.
This is generally conceded regardless of theory as to whether the Indians first found entrance to the continent at its northeast or northwest corner.
Nevertheless, for a theory of progress it offers a solid basis.
It is vital to the theory of the Asiatic origin of the American Indian that in Miocene times a land bridge spanned the present shallows of Bering Sea.
The theory performed, however, a great service in impressing Ratzel's mind with the life-giving connection between land and people.
For such groups the organic theory of society finds an apt description.
Sidenote: Theory of progress from the standpoint of geography.
I am not Edith, you see, but I am interested in your theory all the same.
The Bristol road once left, his theory was at fault; he had no clue, and felt, where time was life and more than life, the slough of horrible conjecture rise to his very lips.
