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Updated: May 12, 2025
For all instruments of knowledge have their end in determining the knowledge of their own special objects: their action does not adapt itself to a final purpose, but the latter rather adapts itself to the means of knowledge.
She will be to him very nearly what she wills and works to be. If she adapts herself to her children, and does not adapt herself to her husband, he will fall into the arrangement, and the two will fall apart. I do not mean that they quarrel, but they will lead separate lives. They will be no longer husband and wife. There will be a domestic alliance, but no marriage.
The state in the first place, as we have several times hinted in anticipation, establishes its own counterpart of the household and rustic cults and adapts to its own use the ideas which they involve: in the second, and particularly in connection with some of the field-deities, it evolves new and very frequently abstract notions, foreign to the life of the independent country households, but necessary and vital to the life of an organised community.
It strengthens the consciousness of personal responsibility of the individual for his own status of health and for the hereditary conditions, traits and tendencies of his off-spring. It encourages personal effort and self-help. It adapts surroundings and habits of life to natural laws.
She adapts the plant or the animal to its environment. She does not drain her marshes; she fills them up. Hers is the larger reason the reason of the All. Man's reason introduces a new method; it cuts across, modifies, or abridges the order of Nature.
The first idea that presents itself in speaking of means is that of something external to the object, yet having no share in the object itself. But merely natural things even the commonest lifeless objects used as means, must be of such a kind as adapts them to their purpose; they must possess something in common with it.
It will not be by fine writing that borrows or adapts foreign models, even English models which are not foreign to us. It will not come through geniuses of the backwoods, adopted by some coterie, and succeeding, when they do succeed, by their strangeness rather than the value of the life they depict.
Why should there be a difference in structure between the two sides of the heart? If the period of rest following the period of contraction of the heart be as long as the period of contraction, how many hours is the heart able to rest out of every twenty-four? State the functions of the capillaries. Show how their structure adapts them to their work.
I want love, free and fearless, that adapts itself to changing human nature as the colour of the sea adapts itself to the colour of the sky; love that does not have to be cajoled and persuaded lest it be not there when I most need it. I want the love that loves." "You know you have it." She had been compelled by his mood and was herself in a fever.
'Every vine-leaf, drawn with consummate skill and untiring diligence, produces not only a true group of the most perfect grace and beauty, but one which in its pure and simple truth belongs to every age of nature, and adapts itself to the history of all time. 'One of the finest landscapes that ancient art has produced, the work of a really great mind, Mr Ruskin distinguishes the 'Phocian' of Nicolas Poussin in the National Gallery, before proceeding to point out its faults.
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