The chemical elements of matter have undergone various reforms, and actual revolutions, and still awaitulterior confusion.
To denominate Positive Sciences, domains which are not strictly Scientific, and in which positive certainty, in reference to Principles and ulterior Facts, cannot be attained, is still more incongruous.
We have, then, three domains in which the true Deductive Method is active; in which we can start from universally recognized Truths and proceed, by irresistible Inferences, to ulterior Principles and Facts.
The form into which he threw his investigation seems to have deterred many able physicists from the inquiry into the ulterior cause of capillary phenomena, and induced them to rest content with deriving them from the fact of surface-tension.
Having applied the secondary principle of surface-tension to the various particular cases of capillary action, Young proceeded to deduce this surface-tension from ulterior principles.
But he was not grateful to Rosa: he attributed ulterior motives to her.
Even Gerbert at the close of the tenth century was still so busy with the outer forms and figments of logic that he had no time to enter on those ulterior problems where logic links itself to metaphysics.
He is fond of Clotilda,--tells her of the excitement concerning his business affairs, and impresses her with the necessity of preserving calmness; it is requisite to the evasion of anyulterior consequence that may be brought upon him.
Fearing the ulterior consequences, she dared not assert her rights to freedom, she dared not say she was born free in a free country.
If he will not, then it will be time to contrive ulterior measures.
If a house prefect interferes in the private affairs of another, an ulteriormotive is always suggested, and the suggestion is probably justified.
His next design seems to have been the recapture of the fortresses, but he was not without ulterior hopes--all too premature--of afterwards pushing on to Madrid and operating in the eastern provinces of Spain.
But the ulterior aims of those who first challenged the sanctity of Church endowments were not concealed, and the more than Erastian tendency of the liberal movement was henceforth clearly perceived by high Churchmen.
In their ignorance of its internal condition and the sentiments of its unruly tribes, the Indian government despatched Sir Alexander Burnes to Kábul, nominally as a commercial emissary, but not without ulterior objects.
On the first news of the insurrection Santa Anna's impression had been that its ulterior aim was hostile to him,[21.
A Puro chief, entering the Cabinet and getting a glimpse of his ulterior aims, resigned in six days.
Thenceforth the trans-Caucasian provinces were considered only a point gained for intervention in the affairs of Persia and Turkey, and for ulterior conquests in the direction of Central Asia.
Nor has any ulterior motive we may have in telling an untruth the power to change its nature; a lie is a lie, no matter what prompted it.
Its object is principally to spread discord, to cause enmity, to break up friendships; it may have an ulterior purpose, and these are the means it employs.
She understood that the Baron's return was prompted not so much by the wish to see his family as by some ulterior interest.
If a stranger by any chance intruded, the dogs suspected him of ulterior designs upon their rations, which were only taken down in the morning by Abramko himself when he awoke.
Though I began with an ulterior purpose," said Crevel, "I have become your poodle.
As for my name—I dare not allow it to be known here; for Vernon is acquainted with a certain individual to whom that name is not strange, and who, were he to learn that I am here, would perhaps suspect that I had some ulterior motive.
Martial law had been proclaimed in every province; and the worst fears existed as to the Grand Duke's ulterior views.
Ulterior object or aim, an object or aim beyond that which is avowed.
However, let's hear your ulterior motives first, my dear Elizabeth, so that afterwards we can chat with unburdened minds.
I've just conscience enough to have to tell you that I've come this time with ulterior motives.
A 'moral sense' which should be radically inconsistent with that criterion, which should order me to inflict suffering as suffering, or without some ulterior reason, would be certainly at fault.
Until that result is known, I forbear to recommend to Congress such ulterior measures of redress for the wrongs and injuries we have so long borne, as it would have been proper to make had no such negotiation been instituted.
This is a trifle in the eyes of the President; not sufficient to impede for an instant his intrigue for the presidency, and the ulterior scheme for the dissolution of the Union.
I look upon it, for my part, as a designed conclusion, and as calculated to promote an ulterior scheme.
The contingency had therefore occurred on which the forbearance of the President was to cease, and the ulterior measures to be recommended which he had intimated.
