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Imported into Greece, after long centuries during which, on the banks of the Indus, it made the wise reflect and the children laugh, the ancient anecdote, perhaps as old as the first piece of advice that a father of a family ever gave in respect of economy, transmitted more or less faithfully from one memory to another, must have suffered alteration in its details, as is the fate of all such legends, which the passage of time adapts to the circumstance of time and place.
The operator, instead of carrying a pile to feed the lamp, drags after him a very elastic cable containing the two conductors. This "Ariadne's thread" easily follows all sinuosities, and adapts itself to all circumvolutions. The entire apparatus, being mounted upon a carriage, can be easily drawn to the place of accident like a fire engine. General Description.
He knows also his own relations to other sentient beings, and adapts his conduct to them, according to the circumstances in which he is placed, the persons with whom he is connected, and the objects which he wishes to accomplish. He learns to accommodate his measures to new circumstances as they arise, and thus is guided and directed through his physical relations.
"You know, I insist we are all absolutely the creatures of circumstance that character adapts itself to circumstance that to change a man or a town or a nation or a world you have only to change their fundamental circumstances." "You'll try me?" "I'll think about it," said Charlton. "I'll talk with Victor Dorn about it." "Whatever you do, don't talk to him," cried Jane, in terror.
And the simpler the theory when once formulated the more perfectly it falls into the grooves of definitely-expressed thought, and the more harmoniously it adapts itself to all vital manifestations the more conclusive must be the induction on which it rests.
He lays trains for a quibble; he contrives blunders for his footman; he adapts old stories to present characters; he mistakes the question, that he may return a smart answer; he anticipates the argument, that he may plausibly object; when he has nothing to reply, he repeats the last words of his antagonist, then says, "your humble servant," and concludes with a laugh of triumph.
But when she employs them to entangle her prey, there are marks of evident design, for she adapts the form of each net to its situation, and strengthens those lines, that require it, by joining others to the middle of them, and attaching those others to distant objects, with the same individual art, that is used by mankind in supporting the masts and extending the sails of ships.
It instinctively senses environmental changes and adapts itself so rapidly that it escapes the injurious consequences of disharmony. Far different is the character of unrest's acuter manifestations. These are infallible symptoms of sweeping changes, sudden breaks with the past, and profound maladjustments which are not being rapidly rectified.
Moreover, in his early period, while his theory was still poetical and mystical, he had conceived that knowledge was made possible in the subject, by the entrance of "forms," or emanations, from the ideas. This theory Philo adapts to his Jewish outlook. Throughout, God is the cause of all knowledge as well as of being, for these effluences are but an expression of God's activity.
His language is extremely polished, the purest Atticism reigns in it throughout, and with the greatest dexterity he adapts it to every tone, from the most familiar dialogue up to the high elevation of the Dithyrambic ode.
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