The remaining article of utilitarian apparel is the belt, usually consisting of a strip of skin (of deer, rabbit, peccary, etc.
We can now comprehend the depth of the truly social revolution which was accomplished from the days when the aesthetic activity, by dint of ever growing, ended by vanquishing utilitarian activity.
A minimum of utilitarian work and a maximum of aesthetic, is surely civilisation itself in its most essential element.
Neatly put, and even from a utilitarian standpoint it may be well to remember that as much money may be brought into Scotland by a thousand tourists wanting to view the Falls, as by a single company wanting to ruin them.
She never has beautiful hands, and she would not have a beautiful face if a utilitarian society could "apply" her face to anything but the pleasure of the eye.
The praise of work, and sacrifice of women to this great heartless devil of work, belong only to, and are the social doctrine of, a mechanical age and a utilitarian epoch.
The basis of ethics, our moralists say, is as largely utilitarian as it is ideal.
He is answered by one who defends the current creed, and who maintains that, as human nature is constituted, the utilitarian system of morals can not take the place of the sacred origin as the ultimate foundation of social relations.
You have waited until the evolution of conduct of the purely utilitarian type has made some great advances; but the ideal state is not yet reached by all men.
It was the utilitarian radicals who laid the foundations of social improvement in a reasoned creed.
The Tractarian movement, as all know, opened, among other sources, in antagonism to utilitarian liberalism.
There were but two paths, running down, in purely utilitarian lines, from the higher level to that of the cottage potager.
We employ meanings in all intentional constructions of experience--in all anticipations, whether artistic, utilitarian or technological, social or moral.
Our utilitarian felt that he was on the eve of making his fortune!
As a reward for his services, Achanna, that worthy Scottish liberal and utilitarian of the year of grace 1441, had received a purse of gold from the chancellor, and from Abercorn the office of seneschal of Thrave.
Through the open helmet, Sir Patrick Gray at once recognized the malevolent eyes of James Achanna, the follower of the Douglases, and the paid spy of Crichton, a thorough Scottish utilitarian of the fifteenth century.
So master Achanna, that utilitarian Scot, who would have sold his own father and his mother to boot, without compunction, slept that night without a yard of cold iron in his body.
Regarded only from the purely utilitarian point of view, the execution of the king was one of the mistakes of the Revolution.
Considering things as a scientist, he no longer asks their utilitarian value, but seeks merely to explain them.
We may hug the notion that our life and thought are not really affected by current literature, that we read the living writers only for utilitarian reasons, and that our real intellectual life is fed by the great dead writers.
But its central point was Max's detached insistence that we make marriage over into a purelyutilitarian affair.
Here he worked on his 'Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation,' in which he developed his utilitarian theory, and here he fell in love with a young lady who failed to respond to his wishes.
This must be clearly distinguished from the commonplace about the utilitarianworld not rising to the invisible values of genius.
Under this philosophy the utilitarian does not see the utility of genius, even when it is quite visible.
It was characteristic of a utilitarian age that sport and the poetic drama should have been abandoned together for what the unhappy people of that time, caught in an unimaginative and rigid scientific theory, thought to be "real life.
This objectionable paper, apart from the incongruity of wash drawings or photographs with typography, relegates this method of book illustration to utilitarian ends.
This is a worthy object, and, on the whole, the books are simple and interesting expositions of the utilitarian aspect of the sciences in question.
Science had no charm to him, since it was directed to utilitarian ends and was uncertain.
A fool may be a believer,* but not a utilitarian who seeks his ground of action in the largest field of relevant facts his mind is able to survey.
Science and utilitarian morality are kings in that country, and rule there by right of conquest over error and superstition.
But the most striking feature in Belgium, where so much is modern, utilitarian and ugly, is found in the older cities with their relics of medieval greatness, and their record of ancient fame.
On the contrary, it seems probable that on strict utilitarian principles the rigid political economy of Tierra del Fuego would have been eminently favoured and diffused by the impartial action of "Natural Selection" alone.
Indeed, a certain eminent writer of the utilitarian school of ethics has amusingly and very instructively shown how radically distinct even in his own mind are the two ideas which he nevertheless endeavours to identify.
Their dress is quieter in tone than that of either their Burmese cousins or their Chinese neighbours, and is severely utilitarian in cut, differing little for men or women.
The truth is, it seems to me, that the needs of life press so hard on the Chinese that they are forced to look at things from a utilitarian point of view, but given the least chance and their appreciation of the beautiful shows itself.
Unsympathetic people tell me that no Chinese ever plant trees save for severely utilitarian purposes.
The utilitarian and individualist point of view tends necessarily to lay stress upon bare force acting by fear and physical pain.
He declares himself to be a utilitarian in the sense that, according to him, morality must be built upon experience.
They might seem to show that what I have called the utilitarian element in his thoughts had effectually sapped the base of the Puritanic element.
Which of those was to be the school of the future, and which represented the true utilitarian tradition?
Individualism, in fact, in one of its senses, for like other popular phrases it tends to gather various shades of meaning, was really the characteristic of the utilitarian school.
He complains more than once at this time that Carlyle was unjust to the Utilitarian views, which, in his opinion, represented the true line of advance.
The general reply of a Utilitarian must of course be an appeal to 'expediency.
The utilitarian conception dwells too much upon the 'sanctions,' and too little on the living spirit, of which they are one expression.
The utilitarian point of view tends to lower the true ground of toleration, because it regards exclusively the coercive elements of law.
Here, therefore, he reaches the point at which hisutilitarian and his Puritanical prepossessions coincide.
And yet he was, in his way, a utilitarian in principle; and his reply to Mill must be given in terms of utilitarianism.
The Utilitarian or Positivist can frame a kind of commonplace morality, which is good as far as it goes.
Briefly, the utilitarian asks, What is the sanction of morality?
It is better so, no doubt, in a purely utilitarian sense, but the fish haunt the spot no more.
Yet it is fortunate that we are not all of us, even in this prosaic age, imbued with the stern utilitarian spirit; for a decaying tree is perhaps more interesting than one in full vigour of growth.
But the French mode of doing almost all practical things is based on that true philosophy and utilitarian good sense which characterize that seemingly thoughtless people.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "utilitarian" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
