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It is here contended, on the other hand, that no conservation of any such variations could ever have given rise to the faintest beginning of any such moral perceptions; that by "Natural Selection" alone the maxim fiat justitia, ruat coelum could never have been excogitated, still less have found a widespread acceptance; that it is impotent to suggest even an approach towards an explanation of the first beginning of the idea of "right."

The principal hotel probably the largest in the world is the "Auditorium," having its dining halls on the tenth floor. All the conveniences that modern ingenuity has excogitated in accordance with the requirements of the present era have been introduced into this huge structure. It includes a theater having a seating capacity for 6,000 spectators.

Hers was apparently the genius which excogitated an alphabet worked out the simpler problems of arithmetic invented implements for measuring the lapse of time conceived the idea of raising enormous structures with the poorest of all materials, clay discovered the art of polishing, boring, and engraving gems reproduced with truthfulness the outlines of human and animal forms attained to high perfection in textile fabrics studied with success the motions of the heavenly bodies conceived of grammar as a science elaborated a system of law saw the value of an exact chronology in almost every branch of science made a beginning, thus rendering it comparatively easy for other nations to proceed with the superstructure.

Just so, as we read on we seem to see how she held up each sentence into the light as it fell from her pen, scrutinised it to see if some rarer phrase might not be compacted, some subtler thought excogitated. Of all the more important tales, Silas Marner is that wherein we least feel this excessive thoughtfulness. And thus it is the best.

The religious ideas which they held in common with the Medes were, indeed, of a more elevated character than is usual with races not enlightened by special revelation; but these ideas were the common stock of the Iranic peoples, and were inherited by the Persians from a remote ancestry, not excogitated by themselves. Their taste for art, though marked, was neither pure nor high.

The one excogitated in spring-time, when Nature was taking her break-of-day drowse, previous to getting up and going about business; the other suggestive of Nature indulging in a half-light reverie in a sort of crimson and scarlet dressing-gown, previous to putting on her night-cap and going to bed, after a hard summer's work.

Wherefore, in Galileo's time, we might have helped to proscribe, or to burn had he been stubborn enough to warrant cremation even the great pioneer of inductive research; although, when we had fairly recovered our composure, and bad leisurely excogitated the matter, we might have come to conclude that the new doctrine was better than the old one, after all, at least for those who had nothing to unlearn.

He put everything down on the table and began to think, because he wanted to write his thoughts on the paper. You must certainly have come across paper in the woods or in the garden. The black on the paper is what man has excogitated excogitated." "Marvelous!" cried Maya, all a-glow that she was to learn so much. "For this purpose," Hannibal continued, "man needs both bottles.

For he had excogitated complicated doctrines and he imparted them without the aid of notes and though his natural wit enabled him to adapt his words to the capacity of his hearers and to meet argument, still his wish was to formulate a consistent statement of his thoughts.

Not until he has read the poem many times, knows where he is going and is no longer pestered by the necessity of thinking, can he hope to enjoy the voyage. But the details had not been very fully excogitated, and his foremost thought, after all, was simply to popularize the Thalia, which was largely caviare to the general. The experiment proved moderately successful.