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If the objection to the child arises from economic or psychologic unpreparedness, there is no one better fitted, possibly, than the modern physician for changing negative fear to positive desire.

The following example will make the reason clear: No amateur athlete has a salary for playing, John Gorman is not an amateur athlete, Therefore John Gorman has a salary for playing. VI. If one of the premises is negative, the conclusion must be negative.

To continue living in this uncertainty, with the memory of her pressed against him always compelling him to put out his arms and draw her again to himself, was intolerable. He would speak, and settle it once for all, nor would he take any compromising negative as a reply.

There is plenty of sand and there is plenty of shade, and I hope you will like it." "I do!" I cried. "On Racket Island let us settle!" For two days I experienced a sort of negative enjoyment. If I could not be at home dictating to my late secretary, or, better still, looking at her, as she sat close to the grating, reading to me, this was the next best thing I could do.

Our ideal of figure might be said to be negative rather than positive, and that "little sister" mentioned in Solomon's Song would bring us no disappointment.

They were returning from a cemetery in which they had failed to commune with even the positive memories of the deceased. They were inadvertently deviating into that distant, solitary region of themselves where negative and defunct memories continually reverberated against bluffs of the mind as faint, unresponsive echoes.

What a wonderful possibility lay in these two happenings which came so close together! The chief, too, looked at the match safe, and when the Professor pointed to John and then directed the captive's attention to the match safe, he did it with the view of ascertaining whether or not he had ever seen John. But to all these questionings the savage shook his head and grunted a plain negative.

"It is no matter who or what I am that speak it." "Do you speak," asked Middleton, from a sudden impulse, "with any secret knowledge affecting a matter now in my mind?" Alice shook her head, as she turned away; but Middleton could not determine whether the gesture was meant as a negative to his question, or merely as declining to answer it.

That this is better than nothing we admit; but that it is an adequate substitute for play we deny. The defects are both positive and negative.

Being answered in the negative, he appeared much surprised, and continued silent.