The ultimate end of criticism," said Coleridge, "is much more to establish the principles of writing than to furnish rules how to pass judgment on what has been written by others.
Take as many poems as you please, and let them have all the merits you please, their ultimate merit as poetry will lie in the degree of their approach to the exact, unconscious, inevitable balance of qualities in the poetic art of "Kubla Khan.
Such scenes are of frequent occurrence; but the conflicts vary in intensity, and the circumstances under which they occur vary too, and females come and go without leaving any clue as to their ultimate intentions.
But, in however imperfect a way, he was again master of himself; and the minister bided his time, putting his ultimate trust in one of the finest mental and physical constitutions he had ever known.
For people straggled in, and the ultimate arrangement of the table seemed entirely to depend upon the personal attractiveness of individuals, upon whether they annexed or repelled new-comers.
The mind has an ultimate and final knowledge of its own existence.
The law of evolution has been very actively at work in China, and no doubt it will be for her ultimate good, and therefore for the benefit of all mankind.
The ultimate effect, because more natural, might be better and truer than more direct persuasion.
Lees, of England:-- "All poisons lessen vitality and deteriorate the ultimate tissue in which force is reposited.
In the manufacture of ether and chloroform, the apparatus for alcohol may be made a part of the devices from which the ultimate agents, ether and chloroform, result.
Eating immediately before retiring has been recommended, but the ultimate result may be an aggravation of the difficulty instead of relief.
The unity of the perceiving subject is thus made to depend on the unity of the ultimate "organ of sensation," the heart.
As we have seen already, Aristotle was out of sympathy with the tendency to regard the sensible differences between bodies as consequences of more ultimate differences in the geometrical structure of their particles.
God is the one supreme unchanging being to whose presence the world responds with the whole process of cosmic development, the ultimate educer of the series of "forms" latent in the "matter" of the world into actual manifestation.
And when we come to the question whether there is only one such ultimate source of movement for the whole universe, or several, Aristotle's answer is that the supreme "Unmoved Mover" is one.
These combinations are regarded as corresponding respectively to the sensible characteristics of the four bodies which Empedocles, the father of Greek chemistry, had treated as the ultimate components of everything.
If a truth is so ultimate that it has either to be recognised by direct inspection or not at all, there can be no arguing at all with one who cannot or will not see it.
Fully thought out, such a view would lead to the conclusion that in the end the simple ultimate matter of all individual things is one and the same throughout the universe, and has absolutely no definite structure at all.
Thus, it is only assumed laws which are not ultimate laws of logic that admit of dialectical justification.
Thus in all cases of intentional action the ultimate efficient cause is the "idea of the result to be attained," but this idea does not move about.
All the sciences are deductions from a single set of ultimate principles which it is the business of that supreme science to which Plato had given the name of Dialectic to establish.
Successive repetitions of the same sense-perceptions give rise to a single experience, and it is by reflection on experience that we become aware of the most ultimate simple and universal principles.
Before you undertake this work, honor me by drinking to your ultimate success," returned Cunningham.
As I was in the habit of leaving for the office about eight I said nothing of my ultimate destination to Mr. Trenton, but I ordered Jenkins to be at the office as near nine-thirty as possible.
Free Religion may be regarded as Protestantism carried to its ultimate results.
And unless we can recognize in theultimate fountain of being an intelligent purpose, the meaning of the universe departs.
Lord Rosse applied an ultimate test; and smash went the whole concern.
Are nations to conduct their intercourse eternally under the secret understanding that an unchristian solution of all irreconcileable feuds stands in the rear as the ultimate appeal?
It is there that mind as mind attains its highest estate, and the condition of knowledge there is the ultimate object, the tantalising goal of the aspiration, the Anders-Streben, of all other knowledge of every kind.
It is not Cayley's way to analyze concepts into their ultimate elements.
They are introduced for the purpose of abridgment and simplification of our reasonings, and are an ultimate phase of magnitude when it is conceived by the mind as capable of diminution below any assigned quantity, however small.
Thus the truth urged against me is that we can not know anything about these ultimate physical principles in their application to the ultra-visible universe.
Ultimate Cause whence all things proceed, and that there is as much warrant for calling it spiritual as for calling it material.
At first but one of these is to be completed to the full dimensions, the other being carried through at only about a quarter of the ultimate cross-section, and not enlarged and put into use until the traffic demands it.
Such answer as may be ventured, must be taken less as a positive answer than as a demurrer to the conclusion that the proximate result must be the ultimate result" (p.
But I held then, as I hold now, that "the Ultimate Power is no more representable in terms of human consciousness than human consciousness is representable in terms of a plant's functions.
In religion then this unification of ultimate Being with the Self is implicitly reached.
Money now measures all things: it is the sole ultimate reality.
Here again it will probably be found that the scientific specialist is hardly conscious that these are principles and concepts: on the contrary, they will be supposed self-evident and ultimate facts, foundations of being.
Thus in different ways, religion presupposes morality to fill up its vacant form, and morality presupposes religion to give its laws an ultimate sanction, which at the same time points beyond their limitations.
It attains the satisfaction by tacking on to its pure negativity, and that externally, the positive signification of its unity with the ultimate Being: its satisfaction remains therefore tainted by the antithesis of another world.
But the character only emerges into actuality in the conflict of the soul-atom with other ultimate realities in the congregation of things.
The sickness and ultimate decease of Sir Henry Barnard caused the demand to devolve on the senior general, Reid.
But the ultimate advantages of this victory promised to be greater than its immediate results.
The choice is either between the maintenance intact of the existing amount of protection in every particular, or laying the foundation for an ultimate settlement by means of ultimate freedom.
Pointing to Mr. Browning, who stood near by:] Browning thought so; the great mass of the Nation have rested in the belief that slavery was in the course of ultimate extinction.
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people?
I did not even say that I desired that slavery should be put in course of ultimate extinction.
What were they but a clear indication that the framers of the Constitution intended and expected the ultimate extinction of that institution?
It is indeed an energetic and reinspiring assurance of the inherent power of truth, and of the ultimate and universal triumph of justice, humanity and freedom.
Their will, constitutionally expressed, is the ultimate law for all.
It is upon this, as I have stated, our social fabric is firmly planted; and I can not permit myself to doubt the ultimatesuccess of a full recognition of this principle throughout the civilized and enlightened world.
I always believed that everybody was against it, and that it was in course of ultimate extinction.
If rate-making or the sale of the property be the ultimate object, the work of making rates or of negotiating the sale can be carried on to better advantage with a complete appraisal than with an incomplete one.
This has had in its favor the argument that it was conservative valuation where taxation is the ultimate end, as the amount was less than one year's interest in every case.
Whether taxation or rate-making be the ultimate end of the work, it is certain that these carriers are entitled to some classification which will separate them from the more prosperous roads.
The value of a roadway at any given time is not the original cost, nor, a fortiori, its ultimate cost after years of expenditure in repairs and improvements.
On making a full and frank showing of facts and conditions, the public service corporation which is honestly financed and honestly operated, need have little fear of ultimate justice.
The two claws on the end of each ultimate foot segment are freely moveable and are in fact highly modified bristles or setæ.
The ultimate segments of the male and female flea are modified for reproductive purposes and of these segments more must be said later.
Then come the five tarsi with the sixth and ultimate segment provided with claws.
His personal appearance was unprepossessing, almost approaching to deformity,--a circumstance which may explain the ultimate hesitation of Miss Wilson to accept his hand.
The ancient Gallic, and in fact the modern French, type of character, sprang out of that settlement, and are in their ultimateorigin creations of Gaius Gracchus.
It was facilitated by the circumstance, that Sulla never lost sight of this as his ultimate aim.
I shall after this give some extracts from Philo's letters, from which the reader will see the vile behaviour of Spartacus, and the nature of his ultimate views.
I saw that they wanted to remove some suspicions which I was beginning to form concerning the ultimate scope of the whole.
He says that a powerful and growing party among our allies in the Far East means to keep China in a condition of anarchy until Japan is prepared, financially and in armament, to take a commanding share in the ultimate settlement.
All that a veracious chronicler can accomplish is to set forth a plain tale of events in their proper sequence, and leave the ultimate verdict to individual judgment.
Against them was the ultimate tendency to lower prices, and the former of these two forces slowly won the day.
Yet the ultimate responsibility for the right conduct of any such undertaking (e.
Fourthly, it gratifies those who believe that force is theultimate sanction of order, and, by necessitating the maintenance of large forces for defensive purposes, incidentally provides means for dealing with domestic discontent.
I have always hated it, and I always believed it in a course of ultimate extinction.
The interest of the whole race demands the ultimate emancipation of all men.
The severe test to which they were subjected, and the determined manner in which they encountered the enemy, leave upon my mind no doubt of their ultimate success.
They took a lively interest in the cause that had for its ultimate end the freedom of the slave.
