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It is very plain that this singular property of assimilating to one what is so widely unlike cannot proceed from any similar conformation, or quality, or attribute of mere being, that is, of any thing essential to distinctive existence. There must needs, then, be some common ground for their common effect.
It cannot be gainsaid that there are races on the globe which are incapable of assimilating the higher forms of civilization, but which might well be made to render valuable services in the lower without either suffering injustice themselves or demoralizing others.
Plants originate in, and are solely nourished by, inorganic substances; or, to speak more definitely, they originate from primordial germs the first elementary principles of life whenever inorganic conditions favor, and, assimilating air, water, and other inorganic materials, convert them into organic substances, or such as answer to the conditions of organic life.
The body of the church, the interior and graceful perspectives of which were not liable to the reproach brought against many Netherland churches, of assimilating themselves already to the municipal palaces which they were to suggest was completed in the fourteenth century. The beautiful facade, with its tower, was not completed till the year 1518.
Beethoven greatly profited by his association with these chosen spirits, assimilating their experiences and endeavoring to emulate them. Thus passed a few years pleasantly enough during this formative period at Bonn, music in one form or another taking up most of his waking moments.
In the power of assimilating what is foreign, or external, to our own particular nature consists the individualizing law, and in the power of reproducing what is thus modified consists the originating cause. Let us turn now to an opposite example, to a mere mechanical copy of some natural object, where the marks in question are wholly wanting. Will any one be truly affected by it?
So that, although power remains externally the same as it was, with every change of the men in power there is a constant increase of the number of men who have been brought by experience to the necessity of assimilating the Christian conception of life, and with every change though it is the coarsest, crudest, and least Christian who come into possession of power, they are less coarse and cruel and more Christian than their predecessors when they gained possession of power.
President Pierce had anything assimilating to a policy, it must be like his grandmother's hard cider the longer it remained exposed the flatter it became. It may turn out that the bombshelling was only to practice a little in that sort of gunnery, and that using up the property of American citizens to illustrate the war principles of Uncle Sam was merely an evidence of spunk in Mr.
For Alkibiades, among his other extraordinary qualities, had this especial art of captivating men by assimilating his own manners and habits to theirs, being able to change, more quickly than the chameleon, from one mode of life to another. The chameleon, indeed, cannot turn itself white; but Alkibiades never found anything, good or bad, which he could not imitate to the life.
The position of Bangs was a difficult one, for while he was accepting and assimilating this unpleasant fact, Epstein and Haxon impatient men by temperament and without much training in self-control were getting wholly out of patience and therefore out of hand.
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