| 单词 | theoretic |
| 例句 | His theoretic concepts on urban design had impermanence as a central theme — the idea that cities rise and fall and are always in flux. Arata Isozaki, architect who melded styles of Japan and West, dies at 91 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z Would it be Drew Lock, acquired from Denver in the Wilson deal and possessing at least the theoretic promise of untapped potential? This is the least-anticipated Seahawks season in a decade 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z But Khan, Mr. Rincon also knew, was designed to foster basic math literacy, not “the theoretic understanding of exactly what is going on,” as he put it in his email to BEAM. Equations and Inequalities: Math, Race and Fellowship 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z From there I would gain my first, go on to get my PhD in theoretic physics, go into research, finally be awarded a DSc, become a world renowned scholar and all the rest. Conquering the Freshman Fear of Failure 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z “We’re not caught up in ideology. I’m interested in progress and results. I’m not interested in theoretic arguments. I’m interested in progress for people.” In historic meeting, Obama and Castro promise new era 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z That may not be merely a theoretic possibility. Ebola Free-for-All Could Trigger Bad Science and Wasted Efforts 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Some students complain because they want situations that yield well to theoretic frames. When effective cases contain contradictions and paradoxes We also provide a theoretic foundation for the use of a proportional response enforcement mechanism. If Comcast And Time Warner Don't Compete Then Why Shouldn't They Merge? 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z In game theoretic terms, they were cooperators who were inclined to punish. Flash Boys Meets Evolutionary Game Theory 2014-04-10T15:00:00Z In designing their amino acid strings, chemists could use these information theoretic principles to modulate the information content of the message. Better (extraterrestrial) communication through chemistry: Isotopes and mirror-image molecules 2012-07-25T17:45:03.207Z But if the theoretic worth of the rural school is to be made at all actual, some very radical changes in view-point and method must come to pass. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z Thus his theoretic opposition to the Kantian aesthetics is but the reflection of his practical opposition to the form-idolatry of the Weimar poets. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z It is suspected that Carlyle has a theoretic remedy for bad government, but dislikes to disclose it. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z Not unnaturally in this combination the historic is outweighed by the theoretic element, and indeed receives very little attention. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Wisdom is the theoretic knowledge of things as they are, irrespective of their serviceableness to our practical interests. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z From a theoretic standpoint, it would not be easy to state all that the physician considers necessary to enable him to make his decision as to individual responsibility. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z This we should have to consider as at all events a theoretic possibility, even if we restricted our study to the terminology connected with rent; though it would hardly give sufficient footing for definite conclusions. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z The process finds many historical parallels: and it is an intensely practical, not a theoretic, matter. South America and the War 2012-02-10T03:00:17.163Z It is hoped that it may open for many teachers a new road to theoretic instruction in morality, and at the same time re-enforce the study of literature in our schools. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z He justified in his own life his theoretic individualism, because he was great and strong enough to stand alone. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Thus the conflict of the theoretic reason and the practical reason eternally engenders religion in the heart of man. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z To regard this question from a theoretic and international point of view, to the exclusion of any regard for the separate national interests of France, is a sheer absurdity. The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 2011-12-24T03:07:52.717Z It is a sufficient criticism on the pure rationalist's position to point out the fact that his separation of practical and theoretic interests is a pure fiction that is never realized anywhere. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z The college student is rarely strengthened in his faith in moral theories by his theoretic study. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z The more the processes of the treatment correspond to this theoretic description the greater will be the success of psychoanalytic therapy. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z How much of the evils should be referred to the one, and how much to the other, is the principal theoretic question which has to be resolved. Socialism 2011-11-27T03:00:13.337Z Its commercial, currency, and economic and theoretic influence has certainly, and much more, been hitherto overlooked. The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 2011-12-24T03:07:52.717Z In 1895 the second half of his psychological seminar was announced as "a discussion of certain theoretic problems, as Consciousness, Knowledge, Self, the relations of Mind and Body." The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z His habit was to devote the first hour or half hour after breakfast, to religious reading, selecting such works as bore on personal or devotional, rather than on theoretic or polemical subjects. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z Such a child, suspicious, afraid of the aggressive impulse which dominates the world, would prove a sad theoretic construction. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z His theoretic doubts respecting a republican form of government, while they did not in the least diminish his preference for our political system, yet made him painfully anxious in regard to its success. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z I sought to understand," he says in his second commentary, that book which excited Vasari's scorn, "how forms strike upon the eye, and how the theoretic part of graphic and pictorial art should be managed. The Story of Florence 2011-10-20T02:00:24.237Z And I believe that the best theoretic work yet done in the subject is the beginning made by F. W. H. Myers in his papers in the S. P. R. Proceedings. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z “All the compliments,” he says, “that I have received from Arago, Laplace and Biot never gave me so much pleasure as the discovery of a theoretic truth, or the confirmation of a calculation by experiment.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z What shall I deal with first, the evidence of experience or theoretic considerations? A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z Neale had no theoretic objections to offer and had given his word that he would not object. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z The other extreme is an enthusiastic belief in the almost magical educative efficacy of any kind of activity, granted it is an activity and not a passive absorption of academic and theoretic material. How We Think 2011-09-16T02:00:18.973Z Some theoretic remarks I make at the end may interest you. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z But the Manchester men can scarcely be said to have properly had anything in the nature of a general theoretic position. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z Persons attending to the child, who surely make no pretensions to a theoretic attitude, seem to judge sucking in a similar manner. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z The Germans were once devils for inhuman theoretic abstracting of living beings. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z Both of these important recommendations have grown out of experience, not out of theory, but they afford excellent exemplifications of the theoretic point just made. How We Think 2011-09-16T02:00:18.973Z And it may well be doubted whether any soul, wholly indifferent to religious truth, ever retained even its theoretic knowledge long. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z We have seen what McCulloch's theoretic position really was, and it is certainly not the Manchester doctrine of popular anathema; it is not the Manchesterismus of the German schools. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z The moral and spiritual labor has also three objects: 1, the administration of justice in the State; 2, the theoretic culture of intelligence; 3, the moral culture of the will. Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State 2011-08-10T02:00:16.913Z In short, the general tone of these two memoirs is one of enthusiastic belief in the method, based almost wholly, so far as is there shown, on questionable theoretic grounds of efficiency. Finger Prints 2011-08-07T02:00:07.827Z The latter is another name only for revolution, about which there is no theoretic controversy. The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 2011-07-27T02:00:32.830Z Let him shun practical extremes, and be ultra only in what is purely theoretic. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z Extraordinary as was Watt's inventive genius, his wide range of knowledge, theoretic and practical, was equally so. Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science 2011-07-19T02:00:21.280Z No one remembered the theoretic code of Christ. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z The majority of healthy children, as has been said, harden themselves against theoretic talk, and it passes over them like the wind. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z There is little enough here of the young poet who believes himself to care for nothing but ‘Art’; and as little of the theoretic cosmopolitanism of some of Keats’s friends. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z From this point of view, discipline of deportment is to be referred to the pupil as practical spiritual activity, while teaching aims at his theoretic activity. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z I am prepared for a theoretic refutation of all my positions, but shall probably be very self-opinionated till you have lived through this experience, as I have done. Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. 2011-06-30T02:00:25.950Z Whether it occurs or not, therefore, is a theoretic problem. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Now in my previous paper I showed how a theoretic knowledge of good conduct had better not be given to children. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Those who were deeply affected by it, directly or indirectly, had their minds full of theoretic ideas. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z First in the order of development comes the knowledge of things through the direct experience of physical sense, then comes imagination, reasoning, theoretic science and speculative philosophy. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z Leighton, though possessing abnormally flexible and subtle æsthetic instincts when he allowed himself to be his natural self, seemed at times to force himself into a theoretic rigidity when he was at his lessons. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z He possessed little theoretic knowledge of writing; his story grew naturally, like a tree: he was intelligent, and he had a story to tell which must be told. Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z More a theoretic than a practical man, he was not sufficiently convinced that a system may be good in itself and bad in relation to particular circumstances. Inquiry Into the Origin and Course of Political Parties in the United States 2011-04-24T02:00:09.423Z If not revolutionary, it was agitated, restless, and distressed by the conflict of theoretic ideas. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z His theoretic history of the man, derived from various sources, mainly newspapers in which crimes had been described bearing the same style of workmanship, was as follows. Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives 2011-03-28T02:00:28.167Z Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Was not this known movement of the heavenly bodies similar to the theoretic movement of the atom? The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike 2011-03-06T03:00:22.017Z Unexpectedly and in quick succession, events in Constantinople swept away the theoretic difficulty, and events in Rome gave the Pope sufficient energy to overcome the reluctance. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z But such a task requires something more than patriotism and enthusiasm, and theoretic views about human rights. A Short History of Germany 2011-02-14T03:00:40.360Z It was granted secrecy in deliberation, the virtual though not the theoretic control of the Ministry, sums of money for secret expenditure, and, in a word, all the machinery necessary to a military executive. The French Revolution 2011-02-10T03:00:50.577Z Thus the attitude of the proletariat towards religion would be entirely free and independent if the ground of its irreligion were merely a theoretic and misleading incursion into the dogmatism of natural science. Socialism and the Social Movement in the 19th Century 2011-02-09T03:00:48.103Z But is it not reasonable to say that in each of these great wars the theoretic rights of neutral trade were justly subordinated to the struggle for the preservation of liberty? The Character of the British Empire 2011-02-07T03:00:24.553Z So matters stood with nothing between Charlemagne and the Imperial crown but a theoretic difficulty, and a certain reluctance. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z They wished to discuss the “maximum theoretic availability.” The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z And—what is vastly more—with the one party, their Transcendentals are but theoretic and inactive, and therefore harmless; whereas with the other, they are actually clothed in living deeds. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z His labours, whether artistic or theoretic, had for some time been carried on in the face of failing health. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z But this theoretic distinction, though it contained the seeds of many practical divergences, did not correspond, in the year 1760, to any great difference of character. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z This beginning of the Papal monarchy is so important that the theoretic origin may as well be mentioned here. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z I have to deal only with his opinions; not with his theoretic doctrines of law, of which latter I profess to know nothing; but with the theoretic doctrines of morality he lays down. Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z Theoretically, running should be just as important as passing because of game theoretic considerations. Why Passing Is More Important Than Running in the N.F.L. 2010-08-31T11:00:00Z Such a coincidence might fairly give rise to the conjecture that both were due to a common cause; but there is great difficulty in accepting this as a theoretic truth. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. Art, then, is defined by two broad distinctions: first, its popular distinction from Nature; and next, its practical and theoretic distinction from Science. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" Such an explanation may easily be dismissed as highly imaginative and altogether theoretic. The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time On the one hand he lays it down that "Without verification a theoretic conception is a mere figment of the intellect." The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer With her, religion236 is a practical and spiritual thing rather than a theoretic and ceremonial. The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 The theoretic researches of Mr. Hopkins have taught us a good deal regarding the pressures and tensions consequent upon glacier-motion. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. It does not concern itself with the amateur or with theoretic drawing. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" Their citation in support of the thesis of Church opposition to science, theoretic or applied, is entirely without justification. The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time His fundamental theoretic position relates to the antithesis of wealth and value. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" Furthermore, even had chivalry not faded from its theoretic brilliancy, it is entirely possible that Jeanne would have been deemed beyond the pale of its protection. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) We must both let that theoretic horror of debt dominate our practice in money matters, and also expand our idea of 'debts.' St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. II A Practical Exposition We are then driven to a purely theoretic notion of truth, and get out of the pragmatic atmosphere altogether. Essays in Radical Empiricism We set out plum, pear, and peach, we luxuriate in advance on bushels of choicest grapes, and our theoretic garden is Paradise Regained. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 The democratic idea, by its theoretic equality amongst men, affords an almost complete relief from this impediment to intellectual conversation. The Intellectual Life The first is theoretic or spiritual, aiming at the development of a new principle of co-ordinating social relations, and the formation of the system of general ideas which are destined to guide society. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" But here again, to say nothing of the equivoque of ‘positive,’ we are met by a claim of pre-emption, the claim of Comte to associate the ‘ism’ specifically with his system, theoretic and practical. Rationalism If this were so, what would have come first would have been the collateral profits of habit, and the theoretic life would have grown up in aid of these. Essays in Radical Empiricism I wanted arguments more palpable and less theoretic. Coelebs In Search of a Wife The world, it is true, had to wait for yet some twenty years before both the practical and theoretic worth of Volta’s discovery became truly pregnant under the fertilizing influence of another discovery. The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse Historically viewed, his System of Logic was an attempt to connect the practical conditions of proof set forth in Herschel's discourse with the theoretic view of Induction propounded in Whately's. Logic, Inductive and Deductive The question of the condition of our globe in Arch�an times, and earlier, is one which only can be discussed on theoretic ground, and is beyond the scope of this work. Volcanoes: Past and Present Which is as much as to say that the purely theoretic criterion of truth can leave us in the lurch as easily as any other criterion. Essays in Radical Empiricism Nobody expected anything else from her except vague, theoretic talk, which she called philosophy. Under False Pretences A Novel The deus ex machina must appear and solve the preliminary or theoretic difficulties by overriding them. British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 Writing in 1858, he said of his Considerations on Volcanos:— 'In that work unfortunately were included some speculations on theoretic cosmogony, which the public mind was not at that time prepared to entertain. The Coming of Evolution The Story of a Great Revolution in Science Nor are such everywhere-scattered facts ready for working into theoretic shape, the most which Italy still affords to make the study of the Renaissance an almost involuntary habit. Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. I ‘Such an arrangement may work, but the theoretic problem is not solved.’ Essays in Radical Empiricism More a theoretic than a practical man, he was not sufficiently convinced that a system may be good in itself, and bad in relation to particular circumstances. The History of Freedom Nowhere so clearly as in their writings are both sides of the theoretic contradiction—British supremacy and Canadian autonomy—so boldly stated, and, in spite of the contradiction, so confidently accepted. British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 The practice of the modern factory teaches scientific determinism to the wage-worker, without it being necessary for him to pass through the theoretic study of the sciences. Communism and Christianism Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View For them eating and drinking possess a kind of poetry; there is a theoretic ingredient blended with the material enjoyment. Pedagogics as a System But he makes a very pretty show of convicting me of self-stultification in according to our purely theoretic satisfactions any place in the humanistic scheme. Essays in Radical Empiricism These works, though partly theoretic, yet are mainly descriptive. Woman under socialism If we do hold the thought it is too often only in a theoretic way. The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching One must not hold to a theoretic opposition to such a method. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology The faith of the scholar in the theoretic value of his facts precedes his intelligent use of them. The Gates Between The theoretic truth that most of us think we ‘ought’ to attain to is thus the possession of a set of predicates that do not contradict their subjects. Essays in Radical Empiricism Their conduct is perfectly in harmony with that of the theoretic friends of cold water, plain dress, and abstemiousness in general. Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery And Tommy, staring at the gigantic apparatus and summoning all his theoretic knowledge and all his brain to work, saw the connection between the two things. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 He had no vanity and looked upon his own resolution and dignity as the heritage of all men worth their salt; in consequence he was inclined to theoretic severity towards the worsted. Tante Having discussed in detail the various symptoms and theoretic aspects of the benign stupors, it may be well to have these observations and speculations summarized. Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type But when the theoretic class were subordinated to the practical class, they became the natural allies of the women, and, like them, had to substitute counsel for command. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 While Burke was belabouring Dr. Price, he whittled away the whole theoretic significance of the English Revolution of 1688, but he remained its partisan. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle Explanation of the term "theoretic."have called the Theoretic faculty, and to justify my substitution of the term "theoretic" for �sthetic, which is the one commonly employed with reference to it. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) And now he sees why the water cannot be raised beyond the theoretic limit of 32 feet: a limit made much lower in practice by imperfections in the apparatus. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I It was Hoch's ambition to prove that, although elation and depression were the commonest mood anomalies in this group, they had no more theoretic importance than anxiety, distressed perplexity or apathy. Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type Mitoses within the red blood discs have been described by different authors, but possess no theoretic or clinical importance. Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological It may be argued that the future college teacher will probably profit more by noting the methods employed by his instructors than he would by the theoretic discussions relating to methods. College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College The second perfection of the theoretic faculty as concerned with life is justice of moral judgment. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) Therefore, the effect in normal times of restriction in production in any one country does not affect price so much as theoretic argument would believe. Herbert Hoover The Man and His Work There may be a practical and most mischievous heterodoxy embodied in the preacher’s idea of sermons, as certainly as he may embody a heterodoxy theoretic and doctrinal in the sermons themselves. Leading Articles on Various Subjects When this happens a really serious practical problem—that of interaction—is transformed into an unreal, and hence insoluble, theoretic problem. The Child and the Curriculum Of what possible use is it to him to learn the various theoretic explanations of Boehm-Bawerk's cost and value? College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College Relation of the imaginative faculty to the theoretic. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) Admitting the death of Jesus as a fact, it denies his resurrection as a fact, and that on doctrinal and theoretic grounds. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors From the foregoing review of the provisions of the Covenant and of the Protocol it is evident that such action against the United States is possible from a theoretic point of view. The Geneva Protocol Consequently denotes a direct result, but more frequently of a practical than a theoretic kind; as, "Important matters demand my attention; consequently I shall not sail to-day." English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions The great difficulty which has been found in attempts to instruct children in science, has, we apprehend, arisen from the theoretic manner in which preceptors have proceeded. Practical Education, Volume II It would appear, therefore, that those pursuits which are altogether theoretic, whose results are desirable or admirable in themselves and for their own sake, and in which no farther end � 9. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) They may teach or preach in a very different manner; they probably do: but the theoretic contents of their opinion cannot be distinguished. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors Continuing the theoretic view of the matter, it would be idle to discuss any difference between one kind of sanction and another in such a case. The Geneva Protocol If this experiment be accurate, what becomes of the theoretic visions of those who have written about nourishing broths, &c.? The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual It is more surprising to find that she also called in question the rights which the nobility claimed as against the royal government, assigning a sort of theoretic ground for her view. A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) The first of these, or the theoretic faculty, is concerned with the moral perception and appreciation of ideas of beauty. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) On its theoretic and perceptive side, morality touches science; on its emotional side, Art. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete If there are theoretic economists who still hold that "a demand for commodities is not a demand for labour," they may be reminded that a paradox is not necessarily true. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production The tactics of the air had hardly reached the point at which a theoretic trial of this kind might have been of value. The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force In that treatise I entered into no general or theoretic exposition of policy, the idea of which I expressly repudiated. Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 And that this joyfulness and reverence are a necessary part of theoretic pleasure is very evident when we consider that, by the presence of these feelings, even the lower and more sensual � 7. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) Certain epochs in theoretic conception, certain considerations, which should be fundamental to his survey, are introduced quite incidentally in a sentence or two, or in a note which seems to be an afterthought. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete It was found that in practice the copper-sulphate method worked better than in theoretic experimentation; results in large reservoirs were more pronounced than in the laboratory. The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) The thousand and one reflections of a sleepless night—the thousand and one alternations of hope, and doubt, and fear—the theoretic tentation of a hundred projects—all passed before my waking spirit. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West It is of course very likely that the comparative slighting which the author has received from M. Brunetière and other French critics of the more theoretic kind is due to this. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Here, as throughout the operation of the theoretic faculty, the perception is altogether moral, an instinctive love and clinging to the lines of light. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) He was simply a man whose desires had been stronger than his theoretic beliefs, and who had gradually explained the gratification of his desires into satisfactory agreement with those beliefs.” The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete But in general, no other rule is observed for the thickness of the heads, than to make them extravagantly heavy, without much regard to theoretic calculation. Scientific American magazine, Vol. 2 Issue 1 The advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements It shows that Occultism, theoretic and practical, is a matter of intellectual ambition—ambition to understand the mysteries of nature, and to wield the power which such understanding gives. Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12 He then says that the early Greek philosophers, though apparently original in their theoretic speculations, followed the Jewish laws with regard to practical and moral precepts. Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. Miscellaneous Later Essays How the lower pleasures may be elevated in rank.pleasures may be rendered theoretic. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) He would even base the so-called theoretic Political Economy, on the study of self-interest, its practice in that of the common good. Principles Of Political Economy These theoretic subtleties were unintelligible to the people of France. Lectures on the French Revolution But this fluency may be obtained in various ways; and first I will take up the theoretic way. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy There is an enormous difference between what can have been, nay, according to certain abstract theoretic views must have been, and what has been. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities And now we find what noble sympathy and unity there is between the imaginative and theoretic faculties. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) To my surprise, he was at breakfast when I arrived at the hotel; and so one great link in my theoretic chain snapped at the first test. The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea We have, seemingly, considered images as isolated facts, as psychic atoms; but that is a purely theoretic position. Essay on the Creative Imagination Enough simplicity remains, however, and enough urgency in our craving to reach it, to make the theoretic function one of the most invincible of human impulses. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy As for the artificial imitation of the outward appearance of protoplasm, should a real theoretic importance be attached to this when the question of the physical framework of protoplasm is not yet settled? Creative Evolution Finally, it is evident, that like the theoretic faculty, the imagination must be fed constantly by external nature—after the illustrations we � 33. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) With all thy theoretic platitudes, what a depth of practical sense in thee, great England! Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. His curiosity is not at all theoretic; he does not aim to know for the sake of knowing, but in order to act upon the outside world and to draw profit therefrom. Essay on the Creative Imagination At such moments of energetic living we feel as if there were something diseased and contemptible, yea vile, in theoretic grubbing and brooding. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy They vary with their authors, with the theoretic views inspiring them, and raise discussions to which the present state of science does not admit of a final settlement. Creative Evolution One task, however, remains to us, namely, to observe the operation of the theoretic and imaginative faculties together, in the attempt at realization to the bodily sense of beauty supernatural and divine. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) And yet, with all thy theoretic platitudes, what a depth of practical sense in thee, great England! Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Mystic imagination deserves a place of honor, as it is the most complete and most daring of purely theoretic invention. Essay on the Creative Imagination With this we seem to have considered the possibilities of purely theoretic rationality. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy Its theoretic prerogatives are tolerated only on the understanding that they shall never be exerted. The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 The subject incompletely treated, yet admitting of general conclusions.to the theoretic faculty, under whatever form, dead, organized, or animated, it may present itself. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) The only effectual remedy, however, was the abandonment of the practice altogether, whether or not the theoretic ground for such abandonment was that advanced by the United States. Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 It is time that this age of ours, so rich in theoretic if impracticable humanitarianisms, forebore to flatter the spirits which work against it in its efforts toward higher and wiser achievement. The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 The question is, then, Can departments One and Two, can the facts of nature and the theoretic elaboration of them, always lead to theistic conclusions? The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy We shall indeed find much worse sins against his own principles of to-day if we turn to Virchow's own special department of science, namely, pathological anatomy and physiology, the most important division of theoretic medicine. Freedom in Science and Teaching. from the German of Ernst Haeckel The second perfection of the theoretic faculty as concerned with life is justice of moral judgment.only. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) The application of this method to nut trees is still in the embryonic stage, with theoretic factors favoring it. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. September 8 and 9, 1916. Such theoretic importance as it may possess is only in relation to human nature, not in relation to the world at large. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays And from this romantic state of mind there is absolutely no possible theoretic escape. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy The case stands thus: there are two principles concerned in the tenure of the magistrate's office—theoretic amenability to the letter of the law, and practical serviceableness for his duties. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 How it is connected with impressions of beauty.conclusions on subjects of theoretic preference. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) And thus was subverted the thorough doubt as to whatever theoretic reason claims to perceive, as well as the claim of Hume that the concept of causality involved something absolutely unthinkable. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics To a man of Pouchet's temperament the subject was full of danger — danger not lessened by the theoretic bias with which he approached it. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 As a purely theoretic problem, namely, the casuistic question would hardly ever come up at all. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy It is a most interesting thing, we may notice in passing, to consider what was the effect upon the Revolution of this artfulness or prudence with which its theoretic precursors sowed the seed. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 3: Condorcet The perfection of the theoretic faculty as concerned with vital beauty, is charity. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) Idolatry in Israel was never due to theoretic changes of opinion; it was only the way in which an outbreak of laxity and luxury manifested itself. The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 This is a question of extreme theoretic significance. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The thought of mutual implication of the parts in the bare form of a judgment of opposition, as 'nothing—but,' 'no more—than,' 'only—if,' etc., produced a perfect delirium of theoretic rapture. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy They are akin to those who seek the theoretic poles of the earth, undaunted by endless defeats. The Tyranny of the Dark In the first or sympathetic operation of the theoretic faculty, it will be remembered, we receive pleasure from the signs of mere happiness in living things. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) That fact must be emphasized, because without a recognition of it the flaming response which met the first proclamation of theoretic democracy would be unintelligible. A History of the United States But it may be urged, in reply to this, that the theoretic conjecture often legitimately comes first. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The interest of theoretic rationality, the relief of identification, is but one of a thousand human purposes. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy Since each theoretic fight had taken place in private, nobody was obliged to admit a compromise with etiquette. The Pirates of Ersatz The perfection of the theoretic faculty as concerned with vital beauty, is charity.amount of pleasure from the happiness of all things. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) It seems not unlikely that the war would have ended as the South African War ended, in large surrenders of the substance of Imperial power in return for a theoretic acknowledgment of its authority. A History of the United States If, instead of being a spur, the theoretic guess rendered men content with imperfect knowledge, it would be a thing to be deprecated. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Impediments that arise in the theoretic sphere might perhaps be avoided if the stream of mental action should leave that sphere betimes and pass into the practical. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy It was inevitable that she should judge the Frate unfairly on a question of individual suffering, at which she looked with the eyes of personal tenderness, and he with the eyes of theoretic conviction. Romola Hitherto we have observed the conclusions of the theoretic faculty with respect to the relations of happiness, and of more or less exalted � 1. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) Whatever his theoretic preferences, he was intensely alive to the logic of facts, and must have known that a brand-new American monarchy would have been as impossible as it would have been ludicrous. A History of the United States The theoretic principle flashes or slowly dawns upon the mind; and then the deductive faculty interposes to carry out the principle to its logical consequences. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The daily contemplation of phenomena juxtaposed in a certain order begets an acceptance of their connection, as absolute as the repose engendered by theoretic insight into their coherence. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy There had been a terrific lift in spirits when dummy-warheaded missiles made theoretic hits, though fifteen interceptors tried to stop them. Talents, Incorporated Thus far then, the theoretic faculty is concerned with the happiness of animals, and its exercise depends on the cultivation of the affections � 8. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) For no passion stands in the way in the theoretic and scientific part of the soul, and the unreasoning element is quiet and gives no trouble therein. Plutarch's Morals This theoretic inference is completely verified by experiment. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Take idealism and materialism as examples of what I mean, and suppose for a moment that both give a conception of equal theoretic clearness and consistency, and that both determine our expectations equally well. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy It is easy to see the numerous objections—theoretic on the one hand, practical on the other—with which we are sure to be met. The Conquest of Bread Scarcely does he keep even a theoretic notion of it. The Simple Life So, by thinking, she reasoned herself into such a theoretic reprobation of this attempt upon her, that his offer became a heinous crime. The Nebuly Coat Far be it from me, however, to wish to fix you immovably in this or in any other theoretic conception. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 As the last theoretic pulse dies away, it does not leave the mental process complete: it is but the forerunner of the practical moment, in which alone the cycle of mentality finds its rhythmic pause. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy A theoretic arch is thrown across the chasm, because men are unwilling to wait till a solid bridge be constructed.... The Superstitions of Witchcraft The only theoretic reason he gives for Secession is the desire to escape from the tyranny of a "numerical majority." The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays That is the best God that theoretic philosophy can give us. The Chief End of Man The problem which had been previously approached from above, was now attacked from below; theoretic effort passed from the super- to the sub-sensible. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Each comes out of the second or theoretic stage of mental functioning, with its definition of the essential nature of things, its formula of formulas prepared. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy Thus Carlyle tries to write of the Middle Ages with a bias against humility and mercy; that is, with a bias against the whole theoretic morality of the Middle Ages. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens He had every theoretic qualification, but no ardor, no leap, no inspiration. The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays The most regrettable latitude of all, judging by theoretic standards of translation, was the careless freedom which writers of this group were inclined to appropriate. Early Theories of Translation Even in this first paper he is able to direct attention to the enormous discrepancy between the theoretic power of the fuel consumed in steam-engines, and their useful effect. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 This only is certain, that the theoretic faculty lives between two fires which never give her rest, and make her incessantly revise her formulations. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy Aristotle called them the "practical" and the "theoretic." Personality in Literature It is not to be judged by its intention, but by its results, and those will be proportioned to its practical, and not its theoretic, excellence. The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays There is a practical side of doctrine and there is a theoretic side of morals. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics But he was not content with mere reflection, nor with the theoretic guesswork which his predecessors had founded upon their imperfect observations. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The problem for them has simply vanished,—vanished from the sight of an attitude which refuses to notice such futile theoretic difficulties. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy His knowledge of sport, moreover, was entirely theoretic. The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables This period of Tartini's labour is, above all, remarkable for his theoretic researches. Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians Even the most theoretic of sciences, Metaphysics, though, as Novalis said, it bakes no bread, is not without its direct bearing upon life. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics A statesman of the greatest talent stated some time ago that in our day the reign of theoretic science had rightly yielded place to that of applied science. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 In such co-operation with his purposes, not in any chimerical speculative conquest of him, not in any theoretic drinking of him up, must lie the real meaning of our destiny. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy We shall put aside all this rubbish and for the present decline to go into theoretic questions. The New Society Instead of delicately nursing the theoretic life in the luxury of the academic cloister, he was forced to work like a slave upon the most uncongenial tasks for a very modest share of daily bread. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 5: On Pattison's Memoirs The Roman Stoics, notwithstanding their theoretic interest in moral questions, lived in an ideal world, and hardly attempted to bring their views into connection with the facts of life. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics No theoretic scepticism can successfully stand in the way of this fact, established as it has been by hundreds, if not thousands, of rigidly conducted experiments. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 When murders and treacheries cease to be sins, regrets are theoretic absurdities and errors. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy I heard him once say to a student who propounded to him some glittering theoretic generality. Memories and Studies Sermons always exaggerate the theoretic side of things; and the most austere preacher, when he is out of the pulpit, and you meet him at the dinner-table, becomes singularly like other people. Short Studies on Great Subjects Primary facts must not be surrendered nor ultimate experiences sacrificed in the interests of theoretic simplicity. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics The antiseptic system, at which I have already glanced, illustrates the manner in which beneficent results of the gravest moment follow in the wake of clear theoretic insight. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The world is philosophy's own,—a single block, of which, if she once get her teeth on any part, the whole shall inevitably become her prey and feed her all-devouring theoretic maw. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy But apart from theoretic defenders, and apart from every soldierly individual straining at the leash and clamoring for opportunity, war has an omnipotent support in the form of our imagination. Memories and Studies When she is coaxing her child to walk, she is not making a theoretic exposition of the science of equilibration. Fantasia of the Unconscious With the theoretic man understands the universe; with the practical he changes it. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics But without verification a theoretic conception is a mere figment of the intellect, and I am sorry to find us parting company at this point. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 But the place where we go to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the Books themselves! Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Controlled and carefully calculated by what intricate theoretic principles and practical mechanisms no scientist of our world can yet say. The White Invaders He knew how by the theoretic reason to destroy all proofs of the existence of God, and then, by introducing the practical reason, to set the existence of God beyond a doubt. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Up to the present the knowledge that she possessed it had been theoretic only. The Letter of the Contract The practical astronomer turned his telescope towards the region which the intellect of the theoretic astronomer had already explored, and the Planet now named Neptune was found in its predicted Place. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 It contains ten theoretic and ten practical books, and gives an excellent idea of the medical knowledge and medical practice of the time. Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages All theoretic changes have ended in blood and ennui. The Napoleon of Notting Hill And it is instructive to compare the foundation of all his pleas for the colonists with that on which they erected their own theoretic declaration of independence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" The theoretic contradictions are explained by the different interests which here cross each other in Marcion. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) In the same way I have to appeal to my theoretic preface at this third point of the drama of Shaw's career. George Bernard Shaw Gurlt says that the foundation of the theoretic medicine of Rhazes is the system of Galen, while in practice he seems to cling more to the aphorisms of Hippocrates. Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages Even in the handling of the electrical equipment, practice in quickly locating trouble is as essential as theoretic knowledge. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery The whole thing seemed unreal, had a purely theoretic or literary quality about it that made him question even their premises. The Man Who Rocked the Earth I. It is one of his theoretic contradictions that the good God who is exalted above righteousness should yet purchase men. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Now the main purpose of Shaw's theoretic teaching is to declare that we ought to fulfil these great functions of life, that we ought to eat and drink and love. George Bernard Shaw The theoretic falsities of such a scheme are as numerous and evident as its practical abuses have been enormous and notorious. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life It is none, of course, if the author has the power to make us admire and welcome the apparition, or if his picture is so dazzling that a theoretic defect in it is forgotten. The Craft of Fiction The actual aggregate result of such unions, repeatedly performed, compared with the theoretic expectation, is shown in the foregoing table. Biology A lecture delivered at Columbia University in the series on Science, Philosophy and Art November 20, 1907 This is the conception of the world obtained by antiquity after almost a thousand years' labour, and it is the same connection of theoretic perceptions and practical ideals which it accomplished. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) For my own part, I will not lose myself at present, when so much darkness prevails on many leading questions, in any views too large and theoretic for our present condition of light. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Outside of Christendom we discern, received and operative in various forms, all the theoretic modes of salvation acknowledged within it, and some others in addition. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life But whatever was known, whether about ancient Assyria or modern Tahiti, found its theoretic place. Alec Forbes of Howglen This theory has not, however, been formed on theoretic views, but by looking nature in the face for years, and following her indications. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence Belief in God, the creator, and eschatological hopes, preserved the communities from the theoretic dualism that so readily suggested itself, which they slightly touched in many particular opinions, and which threatened to dominate their feelings. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) The theoretic moralist's reminder that monuments of human greatness sooner or later come to dust is a doctrine too discouraging of all human effort to exert much practical effect. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays However closely related they are in actual schoolroom work, however greatly they influence each other in practice, they require a theoretic separation. The Recitation The belief is theoretic,—or not even quite that. Phineas Redux Gentlemen, when such authorities disagree, I would not presume to attempt a theoretic decision. Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence But here, at the same time, is the point at which Philo decidedly goes beyond Platonism, and introduces a new thought into Greek Ethics, and also in correspondence therewith into theoretic philosophy. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) However the human mind may resist the clearest theoretic reasoning, it is scarcely possible not to discern obvious and radical errors, while smarting under their destructive consequences. The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States What pity, in rearing so beauteous a system, One trifling particular, truth, should have miss’d him; For spite of his fine theoretic positions, Mankind is a science defies definitions. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Thus, in addition to the lack of any proper co-ordinating of different types of knowledge in suitable forms of activity, the knowledge itself became theoretic and abstract. Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education Of what worth is the theoretic share in political sovereignty, the right to vote, if the people remain enslaved by misery, lack of employment, and acute or chronic hunger? Socialism and Modern Science (Darwin, Spencer, Marx) The first and theoretic part shews the high origin of the soul, and how it has departed from this its origin. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) You disclaim the crass and vulgar mechanical details and emphasize that you are like Einstein, dealing in theoretic physics only. Operation: Outer Space The necessity of detecting and punishing such crimes superseded, in the soundest authors, this theoretic aim at perfection, and obliged technical science to submit to practical expedience. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) In the two latter capacities, he would give whatever theoretic or practical instruction was received by the child. Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education As against these, spiritual love was not merely an artistic and theoretic concept, but the profound emotion of the cultured minds, and remained a powerful and creative force even in later centuries. The Evolution of Love I had conceived violence under a theoretic formula; I had divined its part in the worlds. Letters of a Soldier 1914-1915 But Cochrane was much too tired to work out a theoretic objection to something he knew did work. Operation: Outer Space But this reception of Christ is not a matter of mere theoretic belief. Companion to the Bible As civilization gradually advanced, a mass of valuable practical knowledge relative to man's environment was secured and added to the more theoretic forms. Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age Edgeworth now enjoyed the pleasure of having an intelligent companion, and says: 'My wife had an eager desire for knowledge of all sorts, and, perhaps to please me, became an excellent theoretic mechanic. Richard Lovell Edgeworth A Selection From His Memoir The clergy are the theoretic or philosophical class, and are supported by an endowment from the State, voted periodically, but administered by themselves. Auguste Comte and Positivism They are theoretic rather than demonstrative, and the weight of evidence is against them. Companion to the Bible Under pain of postponing by some centuries the verification of this or that theoretic point, we must watch the least clearing off, and avail ourselves of it without delay. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men This generally admitted principle appears to rest rather on theoretic considerations than on the results of actual experience. Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 And, as we know, theoretic anarchy, though it may not always lead to actual violence, is a doctrine of destruction. Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects The same person cannot be both a good theorist and a good practitioner or ruler, though practitioners and rulers ought to have a solid theoretic education. Auguste Comte and Positivism The theoretic law of the velocity of sound enunciated by Newton on purely mechanical considerations, was found wrong by one-sixth. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library His son Sylvain studied those principles deeply, and to some purpose; he became a theoretic artist of the first class, but he never could either draw or paint even moderately well. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men It is rare with him to venture on theoretic conjectures; but his truly excellent remarks, so indicative of candid and unbiassed enquiry, may justly serve as the basis of very extensive reasoning. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 We have seen that even those who have theoretic objections against it, do not hesitate to draw it, as a matter of fact. An Introduction to Philosophy To the clergy is entrusted the theoretic or scientific instruction of youth. Auguste Comte and Positivism The very best student elocutionist has, on leaving college, but a theoretic knowledge of the art of preaching. The Young Priest's Keepsake Divination and perception, not psychological pedagogics or theoretic strategy, are the only helpers here. Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals Knowledge must come before action, and first-hand knowledge, acquired by observation, is worth more than theoretic acquirements; the first may supply for the second, but not the second for the first. The Education of Catholic Girls The so-called school of Nature-Mythology, which flourishes mainly in Germany, maintains that primitive man is highly interested in natural phenomena, and that this interest is essentially of a theoretic, contemplative and poetical character. The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi The position thus assigned to inquiry is very significant of the theoretic precipitancy which is one of Dr. Draper's prominent characteristics. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 In 1840 the Council of State was again busy discussing the Jewish question, this time from a theoretic point of view. History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) We cannot escape our destiny, which is practical; and even our most theoretic faculties contribute to its working out. Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals Neither are questions of theoretic truth and falsehood governed by circumstances any more than by places. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) The papal party, composed of theoretic theologians, like Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, and represented on the council by Sir Thomas More. The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) We ask of nobody any waste of moral or of theoretic energy, nor any conviction of any sort, but that the job is inspiring and the honest, educated man a match for it. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 April-September, 1915 The latter task, being of a theoretic nature, was entrusted, in 1855, to a special commission under the auspices of the Ministry of the Interior. History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) But, when the theoretic instinct is once alive in the pupil, an entirely new order of pedagogic relations begins for him. Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals It is a Revolution of doctrine and theoretic dogma. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) To them the questions at issue were unincumbered with theoretic difficulties. The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) Mill absolutely repudiated this inference, and, while accepting the theoretic conclusion, held himself perfectly free to adopt in practice whatever course he preferred. John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works Twelve Sketches by Herbert Spencer, Henry Fawcett, Frederic Harrison, and Other Distinguished Authors It is not for mere theoretic upholders of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity to meddle with such things. The Tragedy of St. Helena You might call it a purely theoretic process, with no practical result. Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals Such has been their theoretic destiny and if perchance they have been ugly, hurt, and barren, that has been forgotten with studied silence. Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil The modern shipowner and his theoretic friends prefer to waste their energy in concocting theories to solve an imaginary problem—the only problem being that which exists in their own minds. Windjammers and Sea Tramps I will amuse myself with a carnival freak, a mere theoretic and philosophic piece of nonsense. The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal There was something intimately suggestive of the man in the motion of that hand, in its tentative outstretching, its gentle, half-persuasive—almost theoretic—grasp of the handle. The Inheritors There is no more unsafe politician than a conscientiously rigid doctrinaire, nothing more sure to end in disaster than a theoretic volume of policy that admits of no pliability for contingencies.—J.R. Rebuilding Britain A Survey of Problems of Reconstruction After the World War Our proofs of this are not theoretic but historic. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 I think this might be trying to their faith in theoretic and sentimental government. Windjammers and Sea Tramps It never sufficiently realizes that in the transition from theoretic purpose to practical realization a significant transformation may occur. Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham The gods of Rome, he says, are practical gods, not theoretic; prosaic, not poetic. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology Philosophers seek a theoretic or ideal starting-point for their human work, the work of philosophizing; but they are not usually concerned to seek the practical and real starting-point, the purpose. Tragic Sense Of Life And they are not the mere projects of enthusiasts and theoretic dreamers. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 421 Volume 17, New Series, January 24, 1852 After disposing of Socialism, Fascism opens a breach on the whole complex of the democratic ideologies, and repudiates them in their theoretic premises as well as in their practical application or instrumentation. Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado The baroness, who had her own views on the matter, was quite as ready to take the field, with as many theoretic and empiric data and recognized authorities as had been her opponent. The Nameless Castle He thus found in his previous knowledge the material for theoretic images. Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 His son Michael had no thoroughness, no practical ability, and no grasp whatever of theoretic detail. The Tree of Heaven Descriptions of Nature occur here and there in his epics and dramas; but his feeling for her was chiefly theoretic. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times And you do not know what I mean by calling you "unpractical," "theoretic." The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. Very few men go to the theatre unattached; and these few are not important enough, from the theoretic standpoint, to alter the psychologic aspect of the audience. The Theory of the Theatre Laying the theoretic conception at the root of matters, we determine by deduction what are the phenomena which must of necessity grow out of this root. Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 And yet—you know me—for me it is too ethereal, speculative, theoretic: all theory becomes more and more confessedly inadequate, untrue, unsatisfactory, almost a kind of mockery to me! The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I In their hands scientific geography combined theoretic precision, which had been introduced by their predecessors, with the extended observation incident to the victories and enlarged dominion of the Khalifs. Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 V. The English With all thy theoretic platitudes, what a depth of practical sense in thee, great England! Past and Present In the twentieth volume of the American Journal of Science, at page 225, I gave a preliminary account of my search, theoretic and practical, for the trans-Neptunian planet. Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 He declares his conviction that, had you been alone in the universe, you would soon have discovered that you cannot long make progress in practical science without cultivating theoretic science at the same time. Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 A determination to free artists from utilitarian vision and the disastrous science of representation was the theoretic basis of that movement which is associated with the name of C�zanne. Since Cézanne But what is really curious is that most people have assumed that a dislike of Home's investigations implies a theoretic disbelief in spiritualism. Robert Browning The English And yet, with all thy theoretic platitudes, what a depth of practical sense in thee, great England! Past and Present How shall we more fully correlate our theoretic civics, i.e., our observations of cities interpreted as above, with our moral ideas and our practical policy—i.e., our Applied Civics. Civics: as Applied Sociology He asked Dr. Lloyd to test experimentally the truth of his theoretic conclusion. Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 It is sometimes necessary to kill men as it is always necessary to kill tigers; but the old theoretic distinction between the two acts has been obliterated by Evolution. Back to Methuselah Browning's theoretic attitude in the matter was, therefore, in all probability quite open and unbiassed. Robert Browning It is a revolution, he said, of doctrine and theoretic dogma. Burke AQUINAS:—Aristotelian mode of enquiry as to the end; God the highest good; true happiness lies in the self-sufficing theoretic intelligence; virtue; division of the virtues. Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics But this deep-set theoretic notion had to give way, and the helio-centric theory may, in its turn, have to give way also. Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 Here he was opposed by F�tis, Fux and other theoretic authority; judgment was definitively rendered against him by contemporary opinion and prevailing tradition. Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies The staff of the Observatory of Cambridge puts itself entirely at their disposition for questions of theoretic astronomy, and begs to join its congratulations to those of the whole of America. The Moon-Voyage These wants, however, must not be theoretic and vague, but verified and defined; for he is a calculator as close as he is profound, and deals only with positive facts. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History Footnote 197: The question of the transferability of art productions seems to me to be of genuine theoretic interest. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech By such efforts the human mind is gradually prepared for the final theoretic illumination. Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 But the case before us is not a case of merely theoretic infringement; nor is it one of trifling importance. The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style The theoretic possibility of the experiment is, therefore, quite demonstrated; as to its success, that depends solely in the power of the engine employed. The Moon-Voyage This should serve to put us on our guard against some of his other generalizations, which may be based on premises as purely theoretic. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 But he inclined now to the more merciful view that, veritably, she didn't know; that her practical, even her theoretic, knowledge was insufficient for her to have had any clear design. Deadham Hard If, as new classes of phenomena arise, they also are found to harmonise with theoretic deduction, the presumption becomes still stronger. Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 Where Fletcher substituted for a theoretic classicism an academic romanticism, Randolph insisted on treating the venerable proprieties of the pastoral according to the traditions of English melodrama. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England A theoretic error as to the fate of the said projectile, for making it a satellite of the moon was an absolute contradiction of the laws of rational mechanics. The Moon-Voyage And what has Christianity added to our theoretic knowledge of morality? English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice The theoretic basis of popular government Is to be found in more or less definite shape in various authors from Thomas Aquinas downwards. Studies in Literature It is not, however, the magnetic curves, as such, but their relationship to theoretic conceptions, that we have now to consider. Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 So much for the formal and theoretic side of the question. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England If I have not convinced you all it is because I have been timid in my demonstrations, feeble in my arguments, and you must set it down to my theoretic ignorance. The Moon-Voyage Like the word 'cause,' the word 'soul' is but a theoretic stop-gap—it marks a place and claims it for a future explanation to occupy. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy No one can pretend, for instance, that there is any body of theoretic opinion so compact and so well thought out as Benthamism was in its own day and generation. Studies in Literature All these effects, which, without a theoretic clue, would leave the human mind in a jungle of phenomena without harmony or relation, were organically connected by the theory of undulation. Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 That which Acts of Parliament do not say, which is negatived in actual practice by contradictory and irreconcilable facts, is yet wanted by lawyers for the theoretic completeness of their idea and system of law. Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 On its theoretic and perceptive side, morality touches science; on its emotional side, art. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy The theoretic gain fails so far, therefore, to touch even the outer hem of the real world, the world of causal and dynamic relations, of activity and history. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy Most of Mr. White's arguments in support of his opinion are theoretic; the examples by which he endeavors to sustain it tell, with one exception, against him. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Your eyes could not tell you with greater certainty of the existence of these bands than the theoretic calculation. Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 They would suddenly spring into the stature of archangels if they lived up to the theoretic ethics of poor Tom Jones. All Things Considered His was not the mere theoretic heroism which contents itself with celebrating the deeds of others. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 274, September 22, 1827 To know this distribution is of course a theoretic achievement, but the achievement is extremely limited, it cannot be effected without percepts, and even then what it yields is only static relations. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy And the result of the woman movement seems more or less in a line thus far with this theoretic aim. Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States, 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887 But all the compliments I have received from Arago, De la Place, and Biot never gave me so much pleasure as the discovery of a theoretic truth or the confirmation of a calculation by experiment.' Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 The grounds of Burke's imagination were not theoretic. Essays in Rebellion These, however, are merely the theoretic results, and are subject to some slight variation, according to locality, &c. Wonderful Balloon Ascents Is, now, such bringing into existence of a new value to be regarded as a theoretic achievement? A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy It was during this period that in France, the grand centre of the crusading madness, the communes began to acquire strength, and the monarch to possess a tangible and not a merely theoretic authority. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 The statesman endeavoured to show that we ought not to be surprised at this result, because in our day the reign of theoretic science yielded place to that of applied science. Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 In answering this question I must open again the general relations of the theoretic to the active life. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature The fact remains, however, that he shouldered his knapsack without any theoretic distaste for the soldier's calling. Poems So far as their value-creating function goes, it would thus appear that concepts connect themselves more with our active than with our theoretic life, so here again Bergson's formulation seems unobjectionable. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy But when they exist, as they exist in England to-day, in hundreds of thousands, in town and country, think what a complication they introduce into your theoretic free system of government. Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes; a satire He develops this as the third part of his system of transcendental idealism following theoretic and practical philosophy. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 In spite of their repudiation of articulate self-description, mystical states in general assert a pretty distinct theoretic drift. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature He had found the couple hobnobbing together in all amity; the old gentleman's rigor was purely theoretic. The American It is life exceeding logic, it is the practical reason for which the theoretic reason finds arguments after the conclusion is once there. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy But I was a coward—as so many women are—and my theoretic unconventionality broke down. Jude the Obscure A word or two must suffice to indicate the more important directions of the theoretic interpretation. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 It is in answering these questions that the various theologies perform their theoretic work, and that their divergencies most come to light. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature He was simply a man whose desires had been stronger than his theoretic beliefs, and who had gradually explained the gratification of his desires into satisfactory agreement with those beliefs. Middlemarch Each party uses it or drops it to suit the vision it has faith in, but neither impugns in principle its general theoretic authority. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy Mr. Gladstone contended that the Irish Episcopal Church had fallen out of harmony with the spirit and use of the time, and must be judged by a practical rather than a theoretic test. The Grand Old Man In this preponderance of the draughtsman qualities he resembles many artists of the Florentine school, as also in his theoretic pre-occupation with perspective, proportion, architecture, and technical methods. Albert Durer Do not be an opportunist; try to be theoretic at all the opportunities; fate can be trusted to do all the opportunist part of it. Alarms and Discursions And since natural objects are allied to each other by many affinities, every kind of theoretic distribution of them adds to our knowledge by developing some of their analogies. The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Bergson alone challenges its theoretic authority in principle. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy But whether the prophets have through the ages had any theoretic understanding of human intelligence as an organism or not, they have acted upon the assumption that they were dealing with such organisms. Understanding the Scriptures His argument is that the practical reason demands freedom, just as the 'pure' or theoretic reason demands rationality. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller He failed also to recognize the identity of the aesthetic activity, with language as the base of all other theoretic activity. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Thanks to some out-of-the-way knowledge Davenport had picked up in the theoretic study of music and elocution, he felt confident to deal with the voice difficulty. The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day With low or moderate speeds there is a perceptible equality between the theoretic curve and the curve of the fast boat; but, starting from 16 kilometers, the stress diminishes. Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 The French Revolution is prefigured in the well-meaning but too theoretic giant, and Rousseau's fallacies exposed two centuries in advance. Among My Books Second Series There was mixed with it the natural dread in the political diviner of the political logician,—in the empirical, of the theoretic statesman. Among My Books First Series Artistic activity is more than theoretical: it is practical, realized and perfect, and therefore belongs to practical, not to theoretic philosophy, as Kant wrongly believed. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Though the civilization continued to decline, its forms should, one would think, have remained unchanged and the theoretic attachment of each of these subordinates to the Roman Emperor at Constantinople should have endured indefinitely. Europe and the Faith "Sine auctoritate nulla vita" The discovery was purely theoretic and brought no particular fame or money to Eldridge. The Sign at Six If they are to reconvert the masses, it must be by noble deeds, as Carlyle says; "not by noisy theoretic laudation of a Church, but by silent practical demonstration of the Church." Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography She ceased—tears fell from every Miss— She now had touched the true pathetic:— One such authentic fact as this, Is worth whole volumes theoretic. The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes He saw that art, or mimetic, was a theoretic fact, or a mode of contemplation. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Although he was more of a thinker than any of them, his boldness was not of the merely theoretic kind. Recollections of My Childhood and Youth He could not sketch in outline his theoretic attitude towards window-blinds, even in the form of a summary. Tremendous Trifles The schools and the academies worked out a system of laws at once religious and practical in character, which constituted, in turn, the object of further theoretic study in the same schools and academies. Jewish History : an essay in the philosophy of history The hard conditions of existence there were not propitious to the rise of a purely scholarly school or to theoretic discussion. The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) But the system would not be complete, unless we could show the identity of the two worlds, theoretic and practical, in the subject itself. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic The hope that England would join the Italian-German understanding, concluded in principle in 1882, had remained in these early days merely theoretic. The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 The greatness of the mass, and the height so long attributed to points whence several considerable branches issue, was founded either on theoretic ideas or on false measures. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Moreover it was at first expressed only fragmentarily, and so obscurely that though people admitted its theoretic truth they could not entirely accept it as guidance for their conduct. A Letter to a Hindu Social equality there could hardly be; but political and theoretic equality could be acknowledged. The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 Teleology is the union of theoretic with practical philosophy. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Both these Italians were warm exponents of the doctrine of free-love, and, unlike their more theoretic Northern confréres, they carried their theories into practice with considerable gusto. A Girl Among the Anarchists The pragmatic notion that Truth is practical closes the artificial gulf between the theoretic and the practical side of life, and assigns to truth a biological function and vital value. Pragmatism Not content with any theoretic antagonism to the Forbes explanation of the phenomena, Mr. Tyndall devoted all the leisure of several years to an examination of them on the spot. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 36, October, 1860 Ten to one these theoretic people pronounced oddly, had some reason or other for saying that the most agreeable things were wrong, wore objectionable clothes, and wanted you to subscribe to something. Impressions of Theophrastus Such The belief that only the intellective is knowledge, or at the most also the perception of the real, also arises from the failure to grasp the theoretic character of the simple intuition. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic General considerations of the theoretic "freedom of contract," and the supposed "self-regarding" quality of the actions, are thus liable to be set aside by this socialistic legislation. Problems of Poverty He advocated conciliation, the withdrawal of theoretic rights, the repeal of obnoxious taxes, the removal of restrictions on American industry, the withdrawal of monopolies and of ungenerous distinctions. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 09 European Statesmen The theoretic reasons for certain limits to the rule of veracity appear to me unanswerable; nor can I condemn any one who acts in accordance with them. A Lie Never Justifiable For less theoretic men, ambitious, to be regarded as practical politicians, the value of the Hebrew race has been measured by their unfavourable opinion of a prime minister who is a Jew by lineage. Impressions of Theophrastus Such But in violently rejecting science and frantically embracing art, that very form of the theoretic spirit is forgotten, by means of which we can criticize science and recognize the nature of art. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic The claim of the theoretic socialist is that society by taxing or placing other conditions upon the individual as capitalist or workman is only interfering to secure her own. Problems of Poverty The cathartic, however, must necessarily precede the theoretic virtues; since it is impossible to survey truth while subject to the perturbation and tumult of the passions. Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato It commands, therefore, a most perfect view of the horizon all around, even below the technical or theoretic horizon of its latitude. Across the Zodiac The words by which it is commonly expressed—democracy, parliamentarism, individual liberty, diversity, free development—are puzzling theoretic words, which make no instinctive appeal to the heart. England and the War In the fourth place, we find also the proposition; that aesthetic facts are neither practical, nor of that theoretic form which is called logical and intellective. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic The claims of many theoretic socialists transcend this statement, and claim for society a full control of all the instruments of production. Problems of Poverty Hence, he asserts of theoretic arithmetic that it imparts no small aid to our ascent to real being, and that it liberates us from the wandering and ignorance about a sensible nature. Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato They need have no more wonder if they will but consider the classification which is a theoretic speciality of Parisian life, and adopt all round the fact from which the chiffonier has his genesis. Dracula's Guest Here the contrast between his theoretic worship of his idol and his own practice reaches a climax. Byron Mystical Aesthetic, which makes of art the supreme function of the theoretic spirit, or, at least, a function superior to that of philosophy, becomes involved in inextricable difficulties. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic The whole army of theoretic and practical reformers might indeed be divided into two classes, according as they seek to impose responsibility on employers, or to establish a larger independence in the employed. Problems of Poverty A curious theoretic question was raised by Halleck's incidental statement that an armistice by Sherman could only bind his own army. Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 In discussing military questions he made free use of his theoretic knowledge, often quoted authorities and cited maxims of war, and compared the problem before him to analogous cases in military history. Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1 April 1861-November 1863 There is no longer any reason to treat the deadly commonplaces, amid which we toil through so many pages of the Excursion, as having any true theoretic affinity with its but too occasional majestic interludes. English Men of Letters: Coleridge But if mere imagination as such has been excluded from art, it has not therefore been excluded from the theoretic spirit. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic He initiated us first into the mysteries of theoretic Thugism, and then extended his hospitality by a ready offer to show us the practical side of it, if we agreed to pay for a sheep. From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan "Love thy neighbor!" and "Light, Love, Life" in deeds were characteristic of Björnson, rather than the utterance of passive meditations of a theoretic nature on God and man's relation to Him. Poems and Songs In the first year of the war, I expressed to General Gordon Granger my surprise at finding how little most line officers had added to the theoretic reading they got at the academy. Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1 April 1861-November 1863 You are not content with attacking the whole pantomimic art, practical and theoretic; we too, the pleased spectators thereof, come in for our share: we have been lavishing our admiration, it seems, on effeminate triflers. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 Now this theoretic spirit, since it criticizes science, is not science, and, as reflective consciousness of art, is not art. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic At least, the theoretic discussions which developed around the democratic formulae, owing largely to the initiative of Kuehlmann himself, were not without their danger. From October to Brest-Litovsk The admiration for the English constitution, which was commonly expressed, was as yet rather theoretic than practical, and was not of a nature to detract from the loyalty undoubtedly felt for the French crown. The Eve of the French Revolution Although, as I have said, my military commission had been a nominal thing, and in fact I had never worn a uniform, I had not wholly neglected theoretic preparation for such work. Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1 April 1861-November 1863 These are our theoretic conclusions, but the experience of daily life does not bear them out. The Nature of Goodness Philosophy, the supreme fact of the theoretic world, is forgotten. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic We have discriminated between the two aspects of morality for theoretic reasons which will later become apparent; but no discrimination is possible or needful for the savage. Problems of Conduct When the system is changed, theoretic difficulties may be overcome, but drawbacks remain which only use can show. The Eve of the French Revolution The day closed with the inspection of the regiments in turn at dress parade, and the evening was allotted to schools of theoretic tactics, outpost duty, and the like. Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1 April 1861-November 1863 Now for criticism! and first of all for the theoretic attempts. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life Moral intention operates on given theoretic bases, which cannot be dispensed with, save by that absurd practice, the jesuitical direction of intention. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Our hearts respond to such preaching, but our intellects remain perplexed, if the practical apotheosis of goodness is not supplemented by an adequate theoretic justification thereof. Problems of Conduct The theoretic admiration for this sort of equality was shared by a large and enlightened part of the French nobility. The Eve of the French Revolution With the same exceptions, the opportunities for enlarging their theoretic knowledge had been small. Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1 April 1861-November 1863 Therefore, in the theoretic use of reason, it is experience alone that can justify us in assuming them. The Critique of Practical Reason Thus the relativists deny the peculiarity of the aesthetic fact, again confounding expression with impression, the theoretic with the practical. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic But while admitting its theoretic value as a bulwark of liberty, the modern assailant of the jury brushes the consideration aside by asserting that the system has "broken down" and "degenerated into a farce." Courts and Criminals And it was the force of Cyril's will, Cyril the theoretic cypher, that took them. The Old Wives' Tale This theoretic curiosity seems to be the characteristically human differentia, and humanism recognizes its enormous scope. Meaning of Truth It will appear, then, that it is not a theoretic but a practical purpose that makes this a necessity. The Critique of Practical Reason They are disposed to allow a little space in their souls for a religion which is in contradiction with their whole theoretic world. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Yet who shall say that, in spite of the fact that it is a theoretic outrage upon liberty, this cleaning out of the city is not highly desirable? Courts and Criminals Yet sometimes alternative theoretic formulas are equally compatible with all the truths we know, and then we choose between them for subjective reasons. Pragmatism Accordingly they gratify our theoretic need in a supremely beautiful way. Meaning of Truth By convictions he was an anarchist—theoretic, but by avocation a passionate gambler at billiards, races and cards—a gambler with a very broad, fatalistic sweep. Yama: the pit The intuitive and intellective forms exhaust, as we have said, all the theoretic form of the spirit. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic It is equally hard to police a city of a million or so polyglot inhabitants with a due regard to their theoretic constitutional rights. Courts and Criminals Thomas started from that point, already far from theoretic freedom. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres And if you allow theoretic satisfactions to exist at all, do they not crowd the collateral satisfactions out of house and home, and must not pragmatism go into bankruptcy, if she admits them at all?' Meaning of Truth In virtue of his principles he always progressed, but without being led into exaggeration or lured by compromise; he willingly relinquished theoretic formulas to pursue their results. Life of Chopin The only difference lies in that civilized man penetrates and dominates a larger portion of the universe with his theoretic and practical activity. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic But suppose in addition that these theoretic rights are entirely theoretic and fly in the face of the laws of nature, experience, and common sense? Courts and Criminals But at that time she had not dreamt of such a sudden downfall of her theoretic edifice; she believed in its strength, and did not doubt of her supreme influence with Cecily. The Emancipated If this were so, what would have come first would have been the collateral profits of habit as such, and the theoretic life would have grown up in aid of these. Meaning of Truth I ask myself, in my foolish theoretic way, what earthly right we have to lay claim to civilisation. Our Friend the Charlatan Ugliness, then, is the arbitrary, the charlatanesque; and, in reality, if the practical will do not intervene in the theoretic function, there may be absence of beauty, but never effective presence of the ugly. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Disinterested, ardent, with thoughts for but one subject in the scope of human inquiry, he lived contentedly on his two pounds a week, and was for ever engaged in the theoretic manipulation of millions. The Nether World |
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