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Gunterson and I will plan this thing out together." And Smith left the office with as much numb despondency in his heart as he had ever felt in his thirty-odd years. He knew what the others did not seem fully to appreciate that there was an animus in this attack of O'Connor's which would stick at nothing.
Our author's description of the exigencies that compel injustice to be done in order to requite, or perhaps to secure, Parliamentary support, coupled with his account of the bitter animus against the coloured race that rankles in the bosom of his "Englishmen in the West Indies," sufficiently proves the utter hypocrisy of his recommendation, that the freest opportunities should be offered to Blacks of the said exceptional order.
'In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas Out he pulls his pedigree, on he buckles his sword, gives his beaver a brush, and cocks it in the face of all creation.
Although the king gave them good hopes for everything he brought nothing to a conclusion, being hindered in this by his stepmother and the mandarins of her party, who would have liked to see the Spaniards out of the kingdom; and in this they gained more animus every day by the non-arrival of Don Luis Dasmarinas.
That is just what would have been done had the intended victims been less prominently in the public eye. The murder of court officials, however, was a very different matter from the finding of an unknown miner dead in his camp or along the trail. In the former case there could be no manner of doubt as to the perpetrators of the deed the animus was too directly to be traced.
To those norms is to be added another broad principle of human nature the predatory animus which in point of generality and of psychological content lies between the two just named. The effect of the latter in shaping the accepted scheme of life is yet to be discussed.
But in pitying Soames, readers incline, perhaps, to animus against Irene: After all, they think, he wasn't a bad fellow, it wasn't his fault; she ought to have forgiven him, and so on!
It was in the 1916 volume, that I made a discovery which surprised an exclamation from me. "What would you call this, Worth? Your father's way of making corrections?" "Corrections?" Worth spoke without looking around. "My father never made corrections in anything." It was said without animus a simple statement of fact. "But look here." I held toward him the book.
How large an allowance of such animus these prospectively subject peoples might still carry, without thereby assuring the defeat of any such plan, would in great measure depend on the degree of clemency or rigor with which the superior authority might enforce its rule.
For the purposes of the Church and the uses of confession it was more convenient to regard crime or tort, as did the Romans; as a mental condition, dependent altogether upon the state of the mind or "animus." Malice in the eye of the Church was the virus which poisoned the otherwise innocent act, and made the thought alone punishable.
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