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Because the clothing is in its accustomed folds and is full of the individuality of the wearer?
It was absurd to suppose that they were saying to themselves: "Ah, there's young Jeremy Cole! He's off to school tomorrow. I wonder what he feels about it!..." No, that was incredible, and yet they must realise something of the adventure. He, on his part, stared at them with a new interest. They had before shared in the inevitable background without individuality.
Esther's failure to appreciate this rare chance, and to acquiesce in her lover's evident interest, resulted not from any strange apathy or dislike, such as sometimes influences girlish choice. To her father she said: "I see in Oswald's remarkable individuality much to admire. His refined, magnetic enthusiasm is contagious, and at times most fascinating.
When I am tidy I am stiff as a poker. Clara laughed, and, having fastened the refractory collar-button, bent her stately head, and gave her sister a kiss. 'Don't attempt to be too tidy, it will spoil your individuality. "They were two sisters of one race, She was the fairest in the face,"
Then came a long period when we deliberately adopted a policy of individuality and 'go as you please. Now once again in our sore need we have called on all our power of administration and direction. But it has not deserted us. We still have it in a supreme degree. Even in peace time we have shown it in that vast, well-oiled, swift-running, noiseless machine called the British Navy.
The professor is as remote as if he were speaking through a telephone. The lectures are spelled into my hand as rapidly as possible, and much of the individuality of the lecturer is lost to me in the effort to keep in the race. The words rush through my hand like hounds in pursuit of a hare which they often miss. But in this respect I do not think I am much worse off than the girls who take notes.
And the essence of the whole experience, when the individual swept through it says finally 'I believe, is the intense concreteness of his vision, the individuality of the hypothesis before him, and the complexity of the various concrete motives and perceptions that issue in his final state.
Somehow the Corporation homes looked like make-believe houses or huge stage-properties, they had so little individuality or likeness to the old-fashioned buildings that made homes for people out on the farms.
The doctrine of Leibnitz, on the grounds of individuality in the objects of sense, may, in fact, be profitably extended to all the great political actions of mankind. Many pass, in a popular sense, for pure transcripts or duplicates of similar cases in past times; but, accurately speaking, none are such truly and substantially.
For its realisation she combined her measures, therefore, with an activity so ardent, with an accuracy of perception so marvellous through the mesh of intrigues which spread from Versailles to Turin and to Madrid, that she succeeded in getting herself accepted simultaneously by the three courts, through letting them think that the choice of her individuality had been for each of them the effect of a spontaneous inspiration.
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