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Besides, I am not so much concerned with the habits of the rough fellows we see about here; as far as I can judge, the lumbermen, mill-hands, labourers, and people of the village are remarkably sober, considering the temptations and loneliness of the life and certain contingencies which prevail.
The confederates spared no exertion to increase the confidence of the people under many contradictory and disheartening contingencies.
If delayed, the obstacles of the following summer a peace in France, a peace between the Turk and Persia, and other contingencies would cause the whole project to fail, and Philip declared, with much iteration, that money; reputation, honour, his own character and that of Farnese, and God's service, were all at stake.
But we must provide for contingencies, Editha. If anything happens to me " "Oh, George!" She clung to him, sobbing. "I don't want you to feel foolishly bound to my memory. I should hate that, wherever I happened to be." "I am yours, for time and eternity time and eternity." She liked the words; they satisfied her famine for phrases.
This, to be sure, was an improbable chance; but a mind as active as her own did not disdain to foresee and provide against all contingencies. Then, in addition to everything else, she became absorbed in the one overwhelming and bitter reflection, that after all her sacrifice and labor, the anticipated success might be escaping her.
Pao-yue at these words was so much the more gratified that his very eyebrows distended, and his eyes laughed. "You've got your wits about you!" he speedily exclaimed. "My mind is ever so dull! I've vainly given way to a fit of joy. But to think of these contingencies was beyond me!"
'He's a thundering good chap, anyhow, said Davies; and I heartily agreed. The narrow vigilant life began again at once. We were 'safe enough' in a sense, but a warp and a twenty-pound anchor were poor security if the wind backed or increased. Plans for contingencies had to be made, and deck-watches kept till midnight, when the weather seemed to improve, and stars appeared.
But with these defects and drawbacks he had just such traits and gifts as fitted him to lead a great popular movement, bold, audacious, with deep convictions and rapid intellectual processes; prompt, decided, kind-hearted, generous, brave; in sympathy with the people, eloquent, Herculean in energies, with an amazing power of work; electrical in his smile and in his words, and always ready for contingencies.
Whether such variations or individual differences as may arise will be accumulated through natural selection in a greater or less degree, thus causing a greater or less amount of permanent modification, will depend on many complex contingencies on the variations being of a beneficial nature, on the freedom of intercrossing, on the slowly changing physical conditions of the country, on the immigration of new colonists, and on the nature of the other inhabitants with which the varying species come into competition.
On the other hand, the "sympathetic" and "general" strikes, which are on such a scale as to become great public issues, and are decided by the attitude of public opinion and the government rather than by the employers and employees involved, are viewed as a most essential part of the class struggle, especially when in their relation to probable future contingencies.
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