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The name Roucou is from the Carib Urucu. This table, with its alluring figures, that seem to glean gratefully after the steps of labor, is the negro's manifesto of the French slave-trade. The surprising totals betray the sudden development of that iniquity under the stimulus of national ambition. The slave expresses his misery in the ciphers of luxury.
Some might naturally think that anxiety and the weariness of a prolonged search after a near relative would have prevented my taking any interest in or paying any regard to the little matters around me. Perhaps it had just the contrary effect, and acted like a diffused stimulus upon the attention.
Farm work on his own farm proved to be a game at which he could play with zest and success. The stakes were a life and a living and he has won. We and you, too, no doubt could multiply narratives from observation and experience, to say nothing of reading. All these experiences and the reports of them are both a part of and a stimulus to the "back to the land movement."
Now every instinct requires for its response a stimulus of an appropriate kind, and, therefore, a reasonable view to take would be that the necessary stimulus was lacking. But this is a view which we cannot uphold, because on all these occasions an opposing male was present and, so far as it is possible to judge by observation, that is the stimulus which in the main evokes a hostile response.
This legislation would make permanent the National Housing Agency and give it authority and funds for much needed technical and economic research. It would provide additional stimulus for privately financed housing construction.
In order that a quality should be felt to such a degree as to fix the attention, a certain extension and a certain intensity of the stimulus are necessary, which may be determined by the degree of psychical reaction shown by the child; as, for instance, the minimum chromatic extension sufficient to attract the attention to the colored tablets, etc.
It removes every stimulus to effort. If you really feel like that, you had better take to your bed permanently you will do less harm there than pretending to do work in the value of which you don't believe." "But what is the word for the feeling which one has when one reads a really splendid book, let us say, or hears a perfect piece of music?" I said.
So far as these revelations are a clear and noble expression of truths already contained implicitly in our faith and reason, which it brings into more explicit consciousness and vitalizes with a new power of stimulus, they may be profitable to us all; but they must be received with due criticism and discernment as themselves subject to a higher rule of truth namely, the teaching of the Universal Church.
Wounds and defeat seem, however, to have acted only as a stimulus, and in December, 1777, as a reward for intrepid and brilliant service, he was given the command of a division of the American army. He was then twenty years of age. Then followed four years of active service under General Washington, broken only by a temporary return to France in 1779 on a diplomatic mission.
This sense tends to prevent pauperism, prodigality, is an immense stimulus to the imagination and develops purpose to pursue a distant object for a long time. To see all things and values in terms of money has, of course, its pedagogic and ethical limitations; but there is a stage when it is a great educational advance, and it, too, is full of phylogenetic suggestions.
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