It was a transformation almost terrifying, and to any Western quite bewildering, in its deliberation, rapidity, and completeness.
For under the pressure of the great transformation political forces also have been transformed, and in all countries political thought is baffled and bewildered by the complexity of the problems by which it is faced.
Finally to her own and everyone’s triumph, the complete amplystoma form was assumed, and the transformation was thereby accomplished.
I am afraid there isn't much transformation yet," Faith said.
It was but an outpost of the onward march of civilization and no one dreamt that the coming years would bring about so great a transformation as is today in evidence.
If sacrifice, in its more amiable aspect, can become thanksgiving and an expression of profitable dependence, it can suffer an even nobler transformation while retaining all its austerity.
There, at any rate, form, mass, distance, and other mathematical relations governed the transformation of things.
A myth that enlarged the world and promised a complete transformation of its character might have its charms; but the improvement is not obvious that accrues by making the drift of things, just as it drifts, its own standard.
To this transformationin the spirit of the law, another almost as important corresponded in the letter.
Even less perfect polities, that leave more to chance, would require a moral transformation in mankind if they were to be truly successful.
When this transformation is complete the painting is essentially a landscape.
The expansion of the Japanese into Korea and Saghalin is undoubtedly such a return current, after an interval long enough to work a completetransformation in the primitive Mongolians who found their way to that island home.
The painter observed the transformationof his nature.
She, poor woman, with her simple faith, cleaned it, worshiped it, waiting for the hour of magic transformation to move them to a palace.
All will recall in some elaborate transformation scene how quietly and gradually it is evoked.
From these sources are derived the fabulous transformation of the gods celebrated in Egyptian Mythology, and afterwards imported into Greece and Italy to serve as the subjects of the Grecian and Roman Pantomimes.
The opening scenes, like a soap bubble, began to grow larger and larger, the double plot was abandoned, the Transformation scene became the principal feature, and a long Harlequinade at the end.
The philosophy of the transformation from sea to plain is not fully understood.
Mother had been growing weaker from day to day; being with her constantly, we had not remarked the change for the worse; but Will was much shocked by the transformation which a few months had wrought.
Taken together, the two are a complete mirror, not only of the manner of the transformation of Jacob into Israel, but of universal eternal truths as to God's dealings with us, and our power with Him.
We have, next, the new name, which is the prize of Jacob's victory, and the sign of a transformation in his character.
The change of name indicates a new epoch in a life, or a transformation of the inner man.
If we, in the strength of God, would only realise, day by day and act by act of our lives, that we are before Him, what a revolution could be effected on our characters and what a transformation on all our conduct!
It expressed, therefore, the transformation of the sinful human nature of the worshipper, by the refining power of the fire of God, into something more ethereal and kindred with the heaven to which it rose.
Moreover, there is abundant evidence to show that, in both animal and plant tissues, energy changes are brought about chiefly by the transformation of fats into carbohydrates and vice versa.
Dextrins= may occur in plants as transition products in the transformation of starch into sugars, or vice versa.
Hence, it is possible to start with one of these sugars, convert it into the osone and then reduce this to another sugar, thereby accomplishing the transformation of one sugar into another isomeric sugar.
This transformation is reversible, and suggests a similarity to the change from haemoglobin to oxyhaemoglobin, and the reverse, in the blood of animals, as a part of their respiration process.
Many different hypotheses have been put forward concerning the mode of transformation of fats into carbohydrates, and the changes which take place in oily seeds during their germination have been carefully studied by many investigators.
These reactions in connection with the proteins are similar to the easy transformation of sugars to starches, and vice versa, under the action of the corresponding carbohydrate-attacking enzymes.
It remains in the cells where reserve starch is stored and aids in the transformation of starch into soluble materials for translocation from cell to cell.
The basis for such transformation is rapidly developing within present capitalist society.
But one point seems clear: We shall have to live in our cities while we are transforming them, and this means that the transformation will have to be slow.
If the state undertakes to transform the slums into habitable tenements, the present families of the slums must be accommodated somewhere while the transformation takes place.
For a time gold will have to be used until the transformation from capitalism to cooperation has been sufficiently extended to put the state in a position to open public stores.
The farm colony system, more and more indispensable in our existing civilization, will perform an important role in the gradualtransformation of society from the competitive to the cooperative form.
Capitalists often have an interest in suppressing inventions; for inventions generally involve the expensive transformation of existing plants.
Immediately after taking his degree, he read to the Cambridge Philosophical Society a very novel memoir, "On the Transformation of Surfaces by Bending.
This transformationis effected partly by erosion, and partly by deposition in the valley.
It is not possible to say how far the process of transformation of sand into quartzite was carried while the formation was still beneath the shallow sea in which it was deposited.
Now dawns that wonderful transformation period, at the close of which the church stood pretty much as we now know it.
A third style, Early English, was then introduced, to be followed by the almost complete transformation of the entire building into the Decorated style.
For to him we owe the entire transformation of the choir with its aisles.
Under his guidance the work of transformation planned by his predecessor was loyally continued, for he faithfully adhered to the original design.
By these "final touches" the transformation of the choir into the Decorated style was completed.
It is very interesting to trace Goethe’s subsequent development and thetransformation of a youthful pessimist into a convinced optimist.
The individual life is short, but it ends not in death but in transformation to two new individuals.
Such a transformation or evolution cannot be regarded as unusual.
I have not the smallest idea what ideal nature may have on the subject of plums, but I know very well that man has such designs and such an ideal as form a point of departure for the transformation of the nature of plums.
The artistic propriety of this transformation may be questioned, but not the power and interest of the novel of which it is the finishing touch.
For the Galician peasant, for example, the property question reduces itself to the transformation of feudal landed property into small middle-class holdings.
In reality, however, the colossal development and transformation of commercial society in England began with the consolidation of the English monarchy.
If the material conditions of life of society have so far developed that the transformation of their official political shape has become a vital necessity for it, the entire physiognomy of the old political power undergoes a transformation.
But absolute monarchy in Prussia, as formerly in England and France, does not lend itself to peaceful transformation into a middle-class monarchy.
What, therefore, incited laughter was the momentary transformation of a person into a thing, if one considers the image from this standpoint.
I fancy it might be found to be at the root of a good many comic suggestions, especially in the coarser forms of the comic, in which the transformation of a person into a thing seems to be taking place before our eyes.
Helios is seen collecting his terrified steeds; and the rest of the design is occupied with the transformation of the Heliades into poplars.
Queyrat speaks of play as one of the distinct phases of a child's imagination; it is "essentially a metamorphosis of reality, a transformation of places and things.
The magic transformation of the lover is false to actual fact; but is it not a higher truth that we are often transformed by circumstance, and that love and courage can overcome most difficulties?
I have no doubt that the economic organizations, the trade unions, will help, and I can even conceive the possibility of their being the chief agencies in the transformation in society.
The great urge and passion of Socialism is for the peaceful transformation of society.
