My neighbour cannot be convinced that I am wiser than he is, but he can, that I am worth so much more; and the universality of the conviction is no less flattering than its clearness.
They talk coolly of it, because they are accustomed to the fact; but the very universality of the fact prevents us from ever conceiving distinctly the conditions of force involved.
You will be surprised to find, as you do this, first the universality of the law of gradation we have so much insisted upon; secondly, that Nature is just as economical of her fine colours as I have told you to be of yours.
It proves only racial universality without agreement; but it is so far a scholarly beginning of rational hierology.
The De religione gentilium in particular is a noteworthy study of pre-Christian religions, apparently motived by doubt or challenge as to his theorem of the universality of the God-idea.
But science, which is responsible for this broadening of men's thoughts concerning the universality of life, itself proceeds to set limits.
The gigantic character of the lunar features impresses the beholder not less than the universality of the play of destructive forces which they attest.
His sub-analogy to the ferae is marked by his canine teeth, and the universality of his rapacity, for where is the department of animated nature which he does not without scruple sacrifice to his convenience?
In other words, she will be inclined to look at universality as the main thing to be determined in the region of philosophic inquiry.
Again, he assumes the uniformity of nature, the universality of the causal relation, and so on.
But I would have you notice how the universality of the gift is unmistakably taught us by the instances which I have briefly gathered together in my previous remarks.
The experience of every Christian, Note the two things, the universality and the abundance of this divine gift.
The universality of the Gospel is overflowing the banks of Jewish narrowness.
With further proofs yet to be adduced, the universality of the gentile organization upon all the continents will be established.
Probable Universality of the Organization in Gentes in the Ganowanian Family.
Its antiquity, its substantial universality and its enduring vitality are sufficiently shown by its perpetuation upon all the continents to the present time.
From the wide and nearly universal prevalence of the organization into gentes, its ancient universalityamong them with descent in the female line may with reason be assumed.
Their Probable Universalityin the Tribes of the American Aborigines.
The ancient universality of this practice is being gradually demonstrated.
The office of sachem and chief was universally elective among the tribes north of Mexico; with sufficient evidence, as to other parts of the continent, to leave no doubt of the universality of the rule.
Descent among the Delawares is in the female line, which renders probable its ancient universality in this form in the Algonkin tribes.
I reply, "As long as an opinion is universally admitted, the universality of belief serves of itself as argument and proof.
The tendency of much recent work, however, is to throw doubt on the universality of this opposition of anabolism and catabolism as explanatory of physiological activity in general.
In order to demonstrate the universalityof the phenomenon, I next used Mimosa pudica instead of Averrhoa, for experiments on plants.
The work of the Church, as Church, is to render her note of universalitymore and more conspicuous to render it sensible, palpable.
It was typical of the universality of the aesthetic interests of the men of the times in which he lived that Pirkheimer was also deeply attracted to art and that Albrecht Duerer was one of his closest friends.
In no ancient writer do we find the certainty and universality of law more emphatically and unmistakably expressed than in Lucretius.
In fact, the God of the covenant proclaimed His universality at the very beginning, in the introduction to the Decalogue: "Ye shall be Mine own peculiar possession from among all peoples, for all the earth is Mine.
In the Wisdom literature and the Psalms the God of the covenant is subordinated to the universality of JHVH as Creator and Ruler of the world.
Another argument, rather naive in character, which was favored by the Stoics and adopted by the Church fathers, is called de consensu gentium, and endeavored to prove the reality of God's existence from the universality of His worship.
Indeed, the cosmopolitan spirit of the Jew is the one element needed for the universality of culture.
This is highly probable: such universality of literary interest was adapted to the mixed and cosmopolitan character of the Alexandrine population.
In such universality he is the predecessor, perhaps the model, of Aristotle.
Its absolute universality is closely allied to its absolute necessity; if it be curtailed, it is made contingent; for, if the principle of contradiction may fail us in one instance, it fails us in all.
It is the universality of his sympathy that is so truly great, the justice of his estimates, the insight into the spirit of each age, his intense absorption of self in the vast epic of human civilization.
In this he refers to the universality of French, and draws attention to the advantages which would result to science if it were studied in that language.
The universality of such diverticula among the arachnids makes it highly probable that their progenitors did possess an alimentary canal with one or more pairs of anterior diverticula.
In a word, he discusses the universality of material relation, and discloses to the eye of Philosophy whatever inferences have hitherto lain hidden behind this universality.
We find in it a harmony of power, a universality of endowment, a glow, an aspiring ambition and confidence such as we never find in later centuries, at least so generally and so permanently diffused.
It is sometimes thought that the word university applied to these institutions after the aggregation of other faculties, was due to the fact that there was a universality of studies, that all branches of knowledge might be followed in them.
Let us take a typical myth of this description, from which we may be able to gauge the universality of the sun legend.
