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Here was an instance of a democratic culture growing in isolation, resentful of all external interference. To millions of Americans especially in our middle western and western states bent upon social reforms, the European War appeared as an arresting influence. American participation meant the triumph of the forces of reaction.
He imagined Camille was beneath it, and that it was he who was tossing him about in this way so as to make him fall and bite him. With haggard look and hair on end, he clung to his mattress, imagining the jerks were becoming more and more violent. Then, he perceived the bed was not moving, and he felt a reaction. He sat up, lit his candle, and taxed himself with being an idiot.
In the front-bedroom of Edward Beechinor's small house in Trafalgar Road the two primary social forces of action and reaction those forces which under a thousand names and disguises have alternately ruled the world since the invention of politics were pitted against each other in a struggle rendered futile by the equality of the combatants.
She had won it by her patience and moderation, by her refusal to lend herself to the fanaticism of the Puritan or the reaction of the Papist, by her sympathy with the mass of the people, by her steady and unflinching preference of national union to any passing considerations of safety or advantage.
When the first beam of the midsummer sunshine darted into the chamber, through the leafy limes which shaded one side of the apartment, Hester's mood transiently changed. There was a brief reaction in her spirits. She thought she had been making herself miserable far too readily. The mystery of the preceding evening might turn out a trifle: she had been thinking too seriously about her own fancies.
Their hands met in an electric clasp, and all was forgotten. These two, who had so much to say to each other, yet remained for a long time silent; at length Bathilde exclaimed "Oh, Raoul, how I have suffered!" "And I," said D'Harmental, "who have appeared to you guilty, and am yet innocent!" "Innocent!" cried Bathilde, to whom, by a natural reaction, all her doubts returned.
His great weakness was the common weakness failure to concentrate. In Park Row they regarded him as a brilliant success. Brilliant he was. But a success he was not. He knew that he was a brilliant failure and not very brilliant. "Why is it?" he asked himself again and again in periods of reaction from the nervous strain of some exciting experience.
The hormones reply to every call of life and respond in every reaction. The normal constructive process of their cells remanufactures what has been lost, and the original capacity to respond is restored. If, though, the rate of destruction and loss outruns the rate of repair and construction, they will be permanently damaged.
The kinds of personality described, as prototypes and variants and the fundamental facts supporting the view that they are the reaction types of the human beings we meet in everyday life, represent simply a beginning of the work to be done.
The districts of Italy which had hitherto preserved their old language and manners, Etruria and Samnium, were not only visited by the heaviest blows of the Sullan reaction, but were compelled also by the political levelling of Italy to adopt the Latin language and customs in public intercourse, so that the old native languages were reduced to popular dialects rapidly decaying.
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