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Like the lyric poems of the same author, it was written to be read; and it was not devised to be presented by actors on a stage before an audience. We may now consider the significance of the three concluding phrases of the definition of a play which was offered at the outset of the present chapter.
This saying is no more precise and no more informing than Matthew Arnold's definition of religion as morality touched with emotion. Neither mysticism nor an emotional touch makes religion. They are as often as not concomitants of a pathological state which is the denial of religion.
But writers have busied themselves mainly with details, with methods of teaching, and so forth. A few, of a more philosophical turn of mind, have discussed the principles of the subject, and among these some have undertaken to develop their theories from the true starting-point of a definition.
The most conventional of all types is the Egyptian zigzag, preserved in the astronomical sign of Aquarius; but every nation, with any capacities of thought, has given, in some of its work, the same great definition of open water, as "an undulatory thing with fish in it." I say open water, because inland nations have a totally different conception of the element.
Reject this definition, and the popular national representation, loses at once its nationality, and becomes a mere dependency on the will of local corporations a mere shuttlecock to be driven hither and thither by the arbitrary and conflicting legislation of an indefinite number of separate states.
He ended his rather pathetic and turbulent career in 1857, gathering a few disciples about his bed as he remembered that Socrates had done. Comte begins with the natural sciences and postulates the doctrine of evolution. To the definition of this doctrine he makes some interesting approaches.
After some discussion the commissioners redrafted the telegram in question to read as follows: Senator KNOX. Mr. Bullitt, I want to ask you a question. You have told us that you went to Russia with instructions from the Secretary of State, Mr. Lansing, with a definition of the American policy by Mr.
The repast was partaken of with decency and good manners, and concluded by washing the hands as at first. All of them could read and write with ease. I examined the books they possessed, and found a small work on medicine, a small cyclopaedia, and a Portuguese dictionary, in which the definition of a "priest" seemed strange to a Protestant, namely, "one who takes care of the conscience."
Her most commendable skill is to make her husband's fustian bear her velvet. This she doth many times over, and then is delivered to old age and a chair, where everybody leaves her. Is an essence needing a double definition, for he is not that he appears.
Hartley was not in all respects a follower of Locke, it is true, though he admitted his definition of free-agency. “It appears to me,” says Hartley, “that all the most complex ideas arise from sensation, and that reflection is not a distinct source, as Mr.
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