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And this is a good enough working standard for anybody. The Dictionary is careful to make and this is important a gentleman not one who conforms to an outward and conventional standard, but one who follows an inward and personal ideal. Of late days there has been a great deal of attention paid to making gentlemen of business men and putting courtesy into all the ramifications of business.
The question now arises as to how it comes about that the area occupied by each individual conforms in broad outline to that which has proved beneficial for the welfare of the species as a whole. We shall find that up to a point the answer is a simple one.
If there is a standard of literary excellence, as there is a law of beauty and it seems to me that to doubt this in the intellectual world is to doubt the prevalence of order that exists in the natural it is certainly possible to ascertain whether a new production conforms, and how far it conforms, to the universally accepted canons of art.
If a man must put on the accepted evening dress of his time, he must see that it conforms in the spirit as well as in the letter of the fashion, or he will only look like a dressed-up greengrocer. Hogarth was too sturdy and too wilful to put on court clothes. If he had to, he struggled with them. Hogarth's father was a man of literary tastes, and a scholar.
It is useful to the whole community, not because it is derived from popular sources or conforms to popular standards, but because it is formative and so helps to convert the community into a well-formed whole. Distinction, however, even when it is earned, always has a tendency to remain satisfied with its achievements, and to seek indefinitely its own perpetuation.
These principles constitute what Mr. Spencer distinguishes as absolute Morality; and the absolutely moral man is the man who conforms to these principles, not by external coercion nor self-coercion, but who acts them out spontaneously. To be fully understood, this conception must be taken along with the general theory of Evolution. Mr.
As to this will, the signature is undoubtedly genuine, but my judgment is she procured it in some way on a blank sheet of paper and had the will written above on sheets like it. As it conforms to the real will word for word, excepting the bequests to her, she must have had access to that before having this one written.
No group of institutions illustrates with greater clearness the process of social evolution; and none shows more undeniably how social evolution conforms to the law of evolution at large.
It should be made clear that what we are dealing with in the nervous housewife is not a special form of nervous disorder. It conforms to the general types found in single women and also in men. It differs in the intensity of symptoms, in the way they group themselves, and in the causes. Physicians use the term psychoneuroses to include a group of nervous disorders of so-called functional nature.
In this chapter she shows the strength of a system-maker, in the rest the weaknesses of one; she feels obliged to apply her creed to everything, to illustrate everything by its light, to find unexpected confirmations everywhere, and to manipulate all the history of art, literature, and society, till she conforms them all to her standard.
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