| 单词 | vital principle |
| 例句 | It may achieve its specific ends, but in taking down its enemy, it will leave a vital principle floundering in its wake. The Leveson debate is now about politics, not the press 2013-03-18T07:00:23Z To give an inch more would be a betrayal of the vital principle that fascist kleptocrats are not allowed to steal land with tanks and blockade food shipments with warships in the 21st century. Opinion | Think the West can coax an end to the war in Ukraine? You’re wrong. 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z I know that you will feel angry and let down by the lack of consultation and by the way the proposal failed to recognise the vital principle of open competition. Manchester United fans’ ‘disgust’ at ESL, title in City’s sights – live! 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z Garland now has a chance to uphold that vital principle to not only restore department morale, but the confidence of the American people in the integrity of the system. Editorial Roundup: US 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z All Americans, and certainly all nine justices, should favor a ruling consistent with precedent — and the vital principle that constitutional rights do not vary according to which party gets to nominate members of the court. Opinion | The Supreme Court faces a critical abortion case — and a test of its integrity 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z THE RULEBOOK: CHA-CHING “Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions.” But why, Bernie? 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Being generous, there may be a mere handful, if that many, of congressional Republicans who are standing up for the vital principles that undergird our republic. Opinion | Republicans are adhering to power over principles 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z By leaving dormant the powers inherent in their institution, they vitiate the Constitution’s vital principle: the separation of powers. Opinion | Vote against the GOP this November 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z The federal civil rights remedy was never a complete solution, but it stood for a vital principle about women’s equal rights. Opinion | Joe Biden: Time to take sexual assault to federal court 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z Courts have removed wide areas of jurisdiction from the public’s authority, corroding the ethic of measured majority rule that James Madison described as “the vital principle of our free Constitution.” Opinion | The Power of the Courts Is Messing Up Politics 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z “It threatens to undermine vital principles governing arbitration of collective bargaining agreements throughout the national economy.” Wednesday’s Sports in Brief 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Constitutional duties, including respect for the vital principle of separation of powers, are fundamental to the rule of law. Mormon leader: Kentucky clerk taking wrong approach on gays 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z The document will be lauded for establishing one vital principle. Just how important was Magna Carta? 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z For Moscow, a vital principle is at stake: to oppose the doctrine of international intervention in internal conflicts--whether in the Middle East or in Russia’s own backyard. Russia Still Backing Assad 2012-05-30T19:19:00Z In this work he attacked pagan philosophy for its lack of logic in dealing with the root problems of life, the soul, the cosmos and the first cause or vital principle. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z It implies that one touch of God’s hand, one breathing of His Spirit, can effect such a change that what was formerly ungenial becomes agreeable; a vital principle is imparted to the heart. The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z In them the vital principle of Catholicism was already at work. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z For Moscow, a vital principle is at stake: to oppose the doctrine of international intervention in internal conflicts--whether in the Middle East or in Russia’s own backyard. Russia Still Backing Assad 2012-05-30T19:19:00Z "Health is the vital principle of bliss, And exercise of health." Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity 2012-03-22T02:00:38.537Z The idea of some special vital principle doubtless has its origin in the mysterious tendency of every organic form to develop along certain lines. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z He who would possess the treasure, that is to say, the kingdom of heaven, or the vital principle of Catholicism, must buy the field in which the gem is concealed. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z This alone is the vital principle of your Beethoven. Life of Beethoven 2012-03-12T03:00:21.693Z I feel myself nearer and nearer the mark; I feel but cannot describe it; this alone is the vital principle of your Beethoven. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z The presence of a brain is not essential, because acephalous monsters develop without brain, and they are born alive; they have a vital principle which is identical with the soul. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z But the fountain-head of this necessary relationship is in the vital principle of the Church, in her supernatural principle. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The required principle of activity, which we found cannot be represented as an independent vital principle, we now find cannot be represented as a principle inherent in living matter. Herbert Spencer 2012-02-29T03:00:20.773Z These strange "manners" of the blossoms had then a deep vital principle at their base. Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things 2012-02-24T03:00:23.760Z In Aristotle ψυχή is untranslatable = anima and animus—soul and vital principle. Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 2012-02-22T03:00:23.620Z Then came Hippocrates, the eighteenth from Æsculapius, and of him we have manuscripts; to him we owe 'the vital principle.' The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z Not upon representing any real or vital principle in the national life. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z Ob′ject-less′on, a lesson in which the object to be described, or a representation of it, is shown; Ob′ject-soul, a vital principle attributed by the primitive mind to inanimate objects. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z Over and over again he would remind the men of the vital principle at stake, alike in war and in peace. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z The vital principle is diffused over the whole body, obedient to and in close sympathy with the mind. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z It is in the spirit which animated them rather than in the works themselves that we must look for the vital principle of Lincoln’s humorous sayings. Why Lincoln Laughed 2011-12-29T03:00:17.037Z Even were the facts otherwise, democracy is greater than any constitution; and its vital principles would remain valid. Exempting the Churches An Argument for the Abolition of This Unjust and Unconstitutional Practice 2011-12-24T03:08:02.973Z In him it was not simply an active and vital principle. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z As Monsieur Fargeau has said, we believe that the vital principle of this system belongs to him and to France. The World Masters 2011-11-18T03:00:31.543Z The earth is at rest in the centre of our system, supported by the air, as our body is by the vital principle. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The leading vital principle is oxygen, which constitutes at least one half of all known matter. Nature and Culture 2011-11-17T03:00:34.107Z Description and Definition.—Fever is a powerful effort of the vital principle to expel from the system morbific or irritating matter, or to bring about a healthy action. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z Our salvation, then, and the lifting up and saving of others is the exercise of that vital principle which has its incarnation in hope. Alter Ego A Tale 2011-10-13T02:00:41.707Z All forms are merely external appendages, unessential to the nature of religion, and as distinct from it as the casket is from the gem, or the body from the vital principle. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z The third book treats of the nature of the mind, and of the vital principle. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z We are where we are to-day primarily because we have neglected this vital principle; because we have concerned ourselves with dead things instead of with living beings. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z The author advises the farmer not to feel alarmed about the fever; for when that is present it shows that the vital principle is up and doing. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z In saving 'em from themselves while they're still worth saving; in that prevention which is not only better than cure, but the vital principle of modern therapeutics in every other direction. The Crime Doctor 2011-09-09T02:01:05.570Z It reveals a surprising mastery of the vital principles of “the new education.” Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z The mind and the vital principle are parts of the man as much as the hands, feet, or any other members. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z He must be true to the inherent and vital principles of our language, not yielding to temporary defections from the truth, whether these flourish in Great Britain or in the United States. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z While they arouse the energies of nature to resist the ravages of disease, they act harmoniously with the vital principle, in the restoration of the system from a pathological to the physiological state. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z A vital principle in feeding rose plants is one that seems to be overlooked instinctively by seven out of ten amateur gardeners. Making a Rose Garden 2011-07-29T02:00:21.533Z It is on that account that the women of Utah have made the sacrifice of the most vital principle of their souls. The Mormon Puzzle, and How to Solve It 2011-07-21T02:00:23.213Z Christianity had been pressing home upon the hearts of men those more vital principles until nine-tenths of all the earth was ashamed of the war. Religion and the War 2011-07-18T02:00:22.307Z All these processes are regarded as a series of manifestations of a vital principle in higher and higher forms. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z There is in the animal economy a power, called the vital principle, which always operates in favor of health. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z It undermines the very vital principle of our Union, and saps the very foundation of our social and civil obligations. Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity 2011-07-04T02:00:24.763Z Senator Bacon will now state the creed: The oft-repeated expression “our country, right or wrong” has a vital principle in it, and upon that principle I stand. The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 2011-06-29T02:00:28.167Z This privilege is a vital principle, underlying the whole administration of criminal justice; it is not held by sufferance, and cannot be frittered away on any plea of state or political necessity.” The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt 2011-05-24T02:00:12.183Z That Mr. Leighton understands, to its remotest substructure, the vital principle of the line of beauty, is pleasurably manifest. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z But these were the highest honors allowed Boerhaave; his particular system was soon subverted by Stahl, who proved the supreme superintendence of an immaterial, vital principle, corresponding to that pointed out by Hippocrates. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z What is it but treason against the vital principle of this American Government, viz.: religions toleration? Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity 2011-07-04T02:00:24.763Z Political questions were of slight interest to him, unless they touched upon his vital principles. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Every essential fact and every vital principle had been learned, and every one of the needed mechanical combinations had been successfully effected. A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine 2011-04-21T02:00:53.240Z With the same propriety do those Christians pray that war may come to a final end, while they are supporting its vital principles. War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ 2011-04-18T02:00:09.590Z The direct causes of death are chemical action, resulting from decomposition, which overcomes the vital principle. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z Our Government, of all others, ought especially to guard, by legislation, the vital principle on which it is based, namely: individuality, which guarantees an individual right of opinion to all persons. Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity 2011-07-04T02:00:24.763Z The Sumerians never advanced to the further stage of making the vital principle itself a separable quality; perhaps the original signification of the word which it never lost would have prevented this. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z And, finally, the subsistence of an individual man is changed, or interrupted, or ceases by death, which separates his soul, his vital principle, from his body. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z They know that the spirit is the great matter; and that an enterprise, as well as a human being, or a tree, must grow from the internal, vital principle, and not from external agglomerations. History of American Socialisms 2011-03-28T02:00:20.967Z These may be very complex; yet, if they are only held together by a weak chemical action, they readily yield to the vital principle, and are transformed. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z It is “the blood and the fuel, the vital principle” of the world. James Gleick?s History of Information 2011-03-18T22:10:16Z At the outset, doubtless, the Ka was practically identical with the vital principle. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z But on what ground is the distinction between the material principle and the vital principle of a plant or an animal, for example, regarded as real? Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z This, indeed, is the vital principle of the Great Plan—that all may work together to the ultimate good of each. A Rational Theology As Taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 2011-03-14T03:01:04.693Z There is to be sure a great deal of hypocrisy and humbuggery in our political parties, yet back of these they do stand for certain great and vital principles. The Negro and the elective franchise. A Series Of Papers And A Sermon (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 11.) 2011-03-03T03:00:50.323Z Examples, otherwise trifling, acquire deep interest when set to illustrate some vital principle. The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn 2011-01-30T03:00:15.907Z But as soon as the heart is inwardly renewed, the outward life proceeding from it is but a constant expression of that vital principle which prevails within the mind. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z We have proved that so often—we are all so entirely agreed upon this vital principle, that we seldom, and only on rare occasions, find it necessary to do more than assume its truth. The Ivory Gate, a new edition 2010-12-25T03:00:10.617Z Representation—'the happiest discovery of human wisdom'—is the vital principle of the English Constitution, inasmuch as it is that alone which, in a State too extensive for personal legislation, constitutes Political Liberty. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z That virtue is the specific vital principle of republics is a delusion. The Negro and the elective franchise. A Series Of Papers And A Sermon (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 11.) 2011-03-03T03:00:50.323Z With the Babylonians the case was different, although their science lacked the vital principle of growth imparted to it by their successors. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" They are made perfect in Christ, who is now become a vital principle in them, and they have in him the accomplishment of the law through faith. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z Character, the vital principle of the individual, is the ignis fatuus of the mechanical biographer. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" Like other Polynesians, the Hervey Islanders believed that human beings are animated by a vital principle or soul, which survives the death of the body for a longer or shorter time. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II The vital principle which bound the frame together has been dissolved; what of the Man, the being of high aspirations, “looking before and after,” and whose “thoughts wandered through eternity?” Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. Mr. Wallingford laid emphatic stress upon this vital principle and fixed Mr. Wright’s mild blue eyes with his own glittering ones. Young Wallingford Christian love is that new vital principle by which a man is actuated to do good. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z Now if we call Italian the daughter of Latin, we do not mean to ascribe to Italian a new vital principle. Lectures on The Science of Language Once again, St. Paul is prepared to let everything turn on even a small and unessential point, if that point has become the symbol of a vital principle for good or evil. St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. II A Practical Exposition No vital principle of the Federal system, State interposition excepted, was destroyed. The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. He leaped through the mouth of the enchanted one and entered her stomach, weapon in hand, to take out her heart, the vital principle which he knew had its home somewhere within her being. Legends of Ma-ui—a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina Because he has not yet received that vital principle which is to be derived from Christ. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z Moisture is the vital principle of the strawberry. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 There in his loneliness he had taken continual counsel of that great vital principle which he chose to associate with the Prince of Evil, but to which the learned give the name of "Gæa"—Earth. The Tower of Dago This asserted and exercised right is the vital principle and substance of the institution. Three Prize Essays on American Slavery He made use of the words “vital force” or “vital principle,” not as an occasional, but as a common, explanation of the phenomena of the living body. The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse It is not a “mystical,” vital principle, that sets up, controls, and regulates the physical and chemical processes within the developed or developing organism. Naturalism And Religion They went straight to the vital principles on which the question turned, stated these in the most luminous way, and applied them with unerring exactitude to the particular facts. Studies in Contemporary Biography In other words the male as is very evident on mature reflection gives the soul or the inmost vital principle, and the female clothes that soul, or gives it a body in which to operate. Plain Talks on Avoided Subjects The chief drawback to the full success of the act within its intended scope of operation has been the withholding of certain positions in the service from the application of the vital principle of competition. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" As respects the constitution of man, they make a distinction between the soul and the vital principle, asserting that it is the latter only which expiates sin by transmigration. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition Again, physiology and anatomy had taught me the fallacy of the medical superstition which holds the gray matter of the brain and the vital principle to be inseparable. Stories by American Authors, Volume 10 Many things which were held to be vital principles when we began our talks with kindergarten students, we now find were but lifeless methods after all. Froebel's Gifts Yet the vital principle must be true that the handwriting bears an analogy to the character of the writer, as all voluntary actions are characteristic of the individual. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 But to some it will or may always seem that the vital principle of his correspondence is to that of the real "Best" as stage life to life off the stage. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing These men had to embody some vital principles from the economic conditions of their time and represent some class interest. Communism and Christianism Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View This, then, is the first characteristic of the war, a conflict between the two principles, the moribund principle of Nationality—in the Transvaal an oppressive, an artificial nationality—and the vital principle of the future. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe Dissonances, both acoustically and psychologically, are a vital principle in music. Music: An Art and a Language The strength of the Conservative party from 1878 to 1891 was largely due to its adoption of the vital principle and spirit of Canada First. George Brown Thus, while the vital principle of love for humanity was working its way into individual lives and attracting them to the ranks of the organization, the world at large openly showed its antagonism. The Social Work of the Salvation Army Neither of them is a strictly vital process, since both are found in the inorganic world; but they are in the service of what we call a vital principle. Under the Maples He was not a teacher of spiritual pride, conceit and self-worship, but of those vital principles of love and reverence which elevate man only by directing his aspirations to God. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 You might have said, "It does not pretend to be Christian; but that is nothing against it, for the vital principle of Christianity is sentimental and impracticable: and what won't work can't be right." Is civilization a disease? It is, in fact, the vital principle of modern education. The Curse of Education First, it reaffirms the primacy of local efforts--the vital principle that each nation bears primary responsibility for fighting terrorism within its territory. National Strategy for Combating Terrorism February 2003 Some physicists and biochemists laugh at the idea of a vital principle. Under the Maples It has been said, that "health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise of health." How Girls Can Help Their Country The party that ceases to represent the vital principles of truth and justice dies. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III The rental was $3,500 a month Yuban advertisements have utilized two vital principles in influencing the minds of consumers. All About Coffee The lower we descend in the scale of being, the more striking the instances which we receive of this divisibility of the vital principle. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland It is evident that on Quaker Hill life is closely organized, and that for eighteen decades a continuous vital principle has given character to the population. Quaker Hill A Sociological Study It sat a price on the heads of peaceful citizens; robbed the mails, and denounced the vital principles of the declaration of independence as treason. Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century Wind, air in motion, breathing, breath, expiration, respiration, spirit, i. e. the human soul, that is, the vital principle in man, life. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, April, 1880 For a perfect result it but demands an accurate adherence to simple but vital principles. All About Coffee To use the language of Mr. Madison, such a course "violates the vital principle of free government, that those who are to be bound by laws, ought to have a voice in making them." History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Probably the soul was conceived of at first as simply the vital principle, and the power of the plant was thought of as similar 114to the power of an animal or any other living thing. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Many circumstances would tend to show, that a strict connexion exists between the reception of oxygen into the body, and the vital principle. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease General Smuts: I had thought that the vital principle for your Government was to get the independence out of the way. The peace negotiations between the governments of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, and the representatives of the British government, which terminated in the peace concluded at Vereeniging on the 31st May, 1902 Lettice was more ancient than men walking cunning and erect, than the lithe life of sun-heated tangles, than the vital principle of flowering plants fertilized by the unerring chance of vagrant insects and airs. Mountain Blood A Novel Miss Anthony: Yes, your honor, I have many things to say; for in your ordered verdict of guilty, you have trampled underfoot every vital principle of our government. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II In the course of time this soul, the active principle, was distinguished from the vital principle, was isolated and regarded as an independent being dwelling in the plant. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV In the last lecture I began to investigate the laws by which living bodies are governed, and the effects produced by the different exciting powers, which support life, upon the excitability, or vital principle. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease The idea, the vital principle, has spent itself. The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life Even a little excess of exertion, an exposure to heat or cold, a hearty repast, or a glass of cold water, not unfrequently extinguishes the small remains of the vital principle. Select Temperance Tracts But they timidly clung to their old moorings, nominated a man who had an unpopular war record, and submitted a platform without one vital principle with which to rouse the enthusiasm of the people. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II They determined, like them, to lay aside all concealment of their religious profession, and openly to proclaim their heart-deep convictions as to the vital principles of the gospel of Christ. The Vaudois of Piedmont A Visit to their Valleys To see this, we must examine the chemical nature of the substances which produce the greatest action, and the greatest exhaustion of the vital principle: namely, those which produce intoxication. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease No one even knows or attempts to state what is meant by "a vital principle." More Science From an Easy Chair If backward to come up to the vital principle of this work, they will prevent its accomplishment. Select Temperance Tracts The political significance of the war, and the prolonged discussions on the vital principles of government involved in the reconstruction, threw new light on the status of woman in a republic. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Next comes the vital principle, which, departing from the body, dissipates itself like an odor, and is lost. Humorous Ghost Stories We may call this property, with Haller, irritability, or, with Brown, excitability; or we may use vital principle, or any other term, could we find one more appropriate. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Thirty-five years ago the word "vitality" was used as some few philosophising writers are now using the term "vital principle." More Science From an Easy Chair Patriotism is a vital principle in every Boy Scout organization, but few there are who have such an opportunity for its practical expression as comes to the members of the Eagle Patrol. The Ocean Wireless Boys And The Naval Code So in all men and in all women, the want of liberty, as the want of bread, is a vital principle in the blood. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Beer, wine and spirits furnish no element capable of entering into the composition of blood, muscular fibre, or anything which is the seat of vital principle. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say It is by no means surprising, that the constant application of highly seasoned foods, with fermented and spirituous liquors, should at last wear out the vital principle of this organ. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Yet those who invoke "a vital principle" or "vitality" in connection with protoplasm should, if they were consistent, apply their method to the mystery of water. More Science From an Easy Chair There are two vital principles that should be observed in the design of any fireplace. Making a Fireplace The atmosphere which some breathe is contaminated and adulterated, and with its vital principles so diminished, that it cannot fully decarbonize the blood, nor fully excite the nervous system.—Thackeray. Pearls of Thought Beyond this vital principle, which he held to all his life in never volunteering, he was far too eager to go himself to require any real stirring-up or compulsion. The Life of Gordon, Volume II I have before me the printed letter of a medical man—to whose professional ability I have good testimony—who finds the vital principle in highly rarefied oxygen. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II You will be in position to manifest to the world some vital principle. Cupology How to Be Entertaining The only way in which this affects the two vital principles mentioned above is that the cross-section area of the flue should be one-tenth of the combined areas of the openings. Making a Fireplace Ask the unbeliever, the materialist, what this vital principle is, and he answers: "It is the all-pervading force that is modified by the organic structure." The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880 The organized elements composing the individual have themselves a certain individuality, and each will claim its vital principle if the individual pretends to have its own. Creative Evolution By one's answer we know just where to place him in regard to the vital principles of Christianity. Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel and Selections from his Writings Why is it deposited in the center of the brain if not to impart its vital principle to all nerves interested in life and nutrition—both physical and spiritual. Philosophy of Osteopathy Here was the true spirit of reform, the vital principle of Protestantism. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan That is, in his philosophy, the "vital force is produced by the organism," and the "organism is produced by the vital principle?" The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880 Where, then, does the vital principle of the individual begin or end? Creative Evolution This was the vital principle, necessary to the existence of man as an animal being on this earth. Scarabs The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabæus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc. A truth is the complete work of nature, which can only be demonstrated by the vital principle belonging to that class of truths. Philosophy of Osteopathy The present impending conflict, with the vital principles involved, in which no one can be neutral, are simply, lucidly, strongly set forth. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan These effects are not merely negative: though it would be much, merely to check the farther progress of a gangrene, which is eating out the very vital principles of our social and political existence. A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. Cramps, convulsions, and even the vital principle itself, give way before the exhibition of this deadly narcotic. A Dissertation on the Medical Properties and Injurious Effects of the Habitual Use of Tobacco Thus in the beginning the self was doubtless indistinguishable from the vital principle. The Approach to Philosophy What twaddle are you talking with your vital principle? Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life They contained the vital principle of the Reformation. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan Humility is indeed the vital principle of Christianity; that principle by which from first to last she lives and thrives, and in proportion to the growth or decline of which she must decay or flourish. A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. This fluid is indeed the vital principle, upon which all life, animate and inanimate, depends. New and Original Theories of the Great Physical Forces Let us be flexible as to our methods, inflexible as to vital principles. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement Dr. Henry Sacheverell, an event which excited intense interest at the time, and, though insignificant in itself, touched some vital principles of the constitution. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges This is a vital principle of the school system, and pervades it throughout, and is a chief element of its success. The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada What were the institution, without the spirit of woman operating on its vital principles, toiling and praying, and sacrificing herself, to save those “little ones” whom Jesus loves? The Young Maiden The views therein offered, the vital principles discussed, the details given, the facts handled, have a wide bearing on the future policy and destiny of our country. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy When President Hayes withdrew the Federal troops from the South, it marked the formal restoration of that local self-government which is a vital principle of the American Union. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement To make the matter more intelligible, this vital principle is compared to magnetism, to electricity, and to galvanism; or it is roundly stated to be oxygen. Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. Yet the vital principle remains, life lives on, though the material clothing of it change. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance "Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise of health," said I, quoting Thomson. The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture What right had that Convention to assume the name of Democracy, while trampling upon the advice of the founder of the party, and all its great and vital principles? The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The plant, though grown in soil which had borne other crops, was wholly new in structure and vital principle. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus The vital principle of the body is a different thing from the vital principle of the spiritual life. Natural Law in the Spiritual World Joy, contentment, love and friendship without guile or affectation, seem inherent in them, or predominant in their vital principle, for it leaves them but with their breath. Diary in America, Series Two The word "Socialism" applied to schemes of paternalism, and to government ownership when the vital principle of democracy is lacking, is a misnomer. Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles The real principle of the party, its seminal and vital principle alike, is the power of the President, and its policy is every moment at the mercy of his discretion. The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays He needs the whole Church to manifest His whole character and accomplish His appointed ministry, and so the individual development must differ widely in everything but the common vital principle. Parables of the Christ-life The other is a crystal, very beautiful it may be; but only a crystal—it wants the vital principle of growth. Natural Law in the Spiritual World The Christ within the heart is the vital principle and dynamic energy by which the believer lives and triumphs over every obstacle—the world, sin, sorrow, and death itself. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics The vital principle could manifest itself in all the varied expressions of human personality, as well as in all the physiological indications of life. The Evolution of the Dragon But, above all, the vital principle of manhood suffrage, and the righteousness or unrighteousness of the war to preserve the Union, were issues to be decided. The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes Mr. Jefferson, especially, announced, as among the first and vital principles of his party, the protection of American industries, the diversity of employment and the building up of manufactures. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. Failing in the election, slavery then assailed the vital principle of the republic, the rule of the majority, and inaugurated the rebellion. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy There is in almost all the fine arts a something of soul and spirit, which, like the vital principle in man, defies the research of the most critical anatomist. The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators "In Babylonia, as in Egypt, there were differences of opinion regarding the origin of life and the particular natural element which represented the vital principle." The Evolution of the Dragon In the light of day, all the leaves of vegetables absorb carbon and expire oxygen, thus supplying the air with its vital principle, and withdrawing the more deleterious element. A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School Thus the vital principles of the act of July 14, 1890, remained in force, and the provisions for the purchase of silver bullion and for the issue of treasury notes were repealed. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. Thus gradually and unconsciously life declines into old age; nor is its thread suddenly broken, but the vital principle is consumed by length of time. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome When the vital principle leaves this body, then hands, eyes and the whole body is helpless. Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View All the pulsating motions of the body seem to have been regarded, like the act of respiration, as expressions of the vital principle or "life," which Dutch ethnological writers refer to as "soul substance". The Evolution of the Dragon No living person, however, would believe that defects in his existence are due to the vital principle of his life, but would rather attribute them to circumstances outside his life. Selected Essays In the present instance a vital principle of temperance reform was attacked and almost immediately the whole Dominion resounds with the protests of the temperance people, and forthwith the injustice is removed. The Story of a Dark Plot or Tyranny on the Frontier Haberlandt furthermore indicates especially that these organs when viewed in connection with the process of secretion give evidence of an active vital principle as well as of simple mechanical filtration. At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers Where organic growths are concerned, patience is the sovereign law; and where the organism is a society of men, the vital principle is a sense in one shape or another of the dignity of humanity. Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle During life on earth his vital principle dwelt in the former, except on those occasions when the man was asleep. The Evolution of the Dragon In these words Jefferson surrendered the vital principle of the Republican party. Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII But, it may be urged in opposition by the Pangenesists, your vital principle is an unknown and irresolute x. On the Genesis of Species Thus we have a choice of evils—between a world of ardent, quarrelsome, but efficient groups and a world in which the chief motive of progress, the vital principle of national growth, is left out. The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History Now, if there be no vital principle, all the metaphysical and moral theories which have been hypothecated on its existence, must be reconstructed. The Man With The Broken Ear His wild, ruffianly outrages are perhaps the last despairing effort that his vital principle makes to assert itself, before it finally gives up the struggle for active existence. What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular The sultry air of August, confined in the chapel walls, and deprived of its vital principle by so many heaving lungs, weighed oppressively on mine. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author Yes, your honor," Susan replied, "I have many things to say; for in your ordered verdict of guilty, you have trampled underfoot every vital principle of our government. Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian The equality of rights, which includes an equality of burdens, is a vital principle in our theory of government. Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. To the most touching endearments of her betrothed, the young fiancée responded with disquisitions on the vital principle. The Man With The Broken Ear Other Queensland aborigines associate the vital principle not with the heart but with the breath. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia I should think the vital principle in such a constitution would burn out sooner than in others, like a flame fed by alcohol. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author Equally correct is his remark, that "Hamilton must be classed among the men who have best known the vital principles and fundamental conditions of a government." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 The festal entertainments which had graced the marriages of princes had most of the machinery of opera, but they lacked the vital principle. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera Together we have defended the vital principles of free nations. Winning a Cause World War Stories Considered mineral medicines destructive to the vital principle. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 For in this centre resides the sun of suns, the unity of unities, the temple, the altar of the universe, the sacred fire of Vesta, the vital principle of the universe. The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the First An Ethical Poem How blind these Papists were, he thought! how prejudiced for the old trifling details of worship! how ignorant of the vital principles still retained! By What Authority? The vital principle, the essential element, the final good, these were fine phrases, though they had a pagan ring. The Long Night De Vallance now laboured to convince Jobson, that admitting the reality of spectral appearances in the human form, animals were not endowed with a vital principle, capable of existing distinct from their bodies. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel This people had no burial ceremonies, no notion of a life hereafter, no word for soul, spiritual existence, or vital principle. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America Bahá’í vote for an officer, no Bahá’í participation in the affairs of the Republic, shall involve acceptance of a program or policy that contravenes any vital principle, spiritual or social, of the Faith. Directives from the Guardian Nor is the theory of natural selection the vital principle of Mr. Darwin's theory, unless the word natural be taken in a sense antithetical to supernatural. What is Darwinism? Also the heart, is often used more frequently perhaps than any other term as meaning the vital principle, and the seat of consciousness, intellect, will, and affection. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life The inherent, vital principle of slavery is irresponsible, despotic rule. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy I thought that the vital principle your Government had in view was the destruction of our independence, and in our proposal the independence of the two Republics with regard to foreign relations is given up. Three Years' War Having attempted to unfold the progression of species by his law of development, the author next essays to explain the commencement of the vital principle itself. An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges You have taken a stand for a vital principle, and it must make us better. John Ward, Preacher If the vital principle, or vital force, is a fiction, invented to give the mind something to take hold of, we are in no worse case than we are in some other matters. The Breath of Life Miss Anthony—Yes, your honor, I have many things to say; for in your ordered verdict of guilty, you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting The first is, to take care of that vital principle of every state, its revenue. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) They may give us a little laboured masterpiece of art in which the vital principle is wanting. Scenes of Clerical Life And those impurities, like rank growths of vine, may be lopped away without injuring any vital principle. The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art The vital principle is a metaphysical concept; so is instinct; so is reason; so is the soul; so is God. The Breath of Life In natural bodies, however, there is no vital principle. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition In a certain trade dispute I compelled the employers, by Act of Parliament, to agree to a vital principle upon which the men insisted. A People's Man The vital principle of civilisation seems to have exhausted itself in those parts. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government For in accepting a position in this directorate he has, it seems to me, stamped with his approval this vital principle of coöperation in aiding the educational institutions of our country. Random Reminiscences of Men and Events Now notice that at the back of each set of motives is a vital principle. The Discipline of War Nine Addresses on the Lessons of the War in Connection with Lent Religion was no vital principle in her mind. May Brooke That unity of interest, which is the vital principle of the arts, as well as anything else, is necessarily divided and scattered. Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy What vital principle affecting our citizenship is championed by the National Republican party of to-day? Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South The vital principles of it were not sufficiently rooted in him. Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties The poet's instinct kept him in harmony with those essential and vital principles of language of which the formal rules are simply didactic statements. Books and Culture Here, besides the vital principle of concentration, we have a germ even of the idea of containing, and Rodney is equally emphatic. Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX. It is not surprising, therefore, to find that in Babylonia, as in Egypt, there were differences of opinion regarding the origin of life and the particular natural element which represented the vital principle. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Cui bono is the question repeatedly put to the proselytising Atheist by this modern antique class of persons, who cannot see the utility of destroying the vital principle of all religions. An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles "The vital principle in the pursuit is to enable the pupil rightly to instruct himself," writes Mr. Wyse. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library In comparing the Ambrosian chant with that of Gregory, it may be said that we have touched upon the vital principle of modern music. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Reference to Experience is one of the most vital principles in exposition—as in every other form of discourse. The Art of Public Speaking Palace of Nimroud: now in the British Museum It is possible, of course, that fire was regarded as the vital principle by some city cults, which were influenced by imported ideas. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Her lips were apart, but no breath seemed to issue from them; and, but for a slight—very slight palpitation of the bosom, the vital principle might be supposed to be extinct. Jack Sheppard A Romance We are tired of works on chemical physics which discourse of "calorie" and "the electric fluid,"—of works on organic chemistry which ascribe the phenomena of life to "a vital principle which overrides chemical laws." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 We must fall back upon, and confide in, these vital principles of holy conduct. The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character The contests between the tyrants is the only vital principle that can be discerned in France. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) The spoil of the Church was now become the only resource of all their operations in finance, the vital principle of all their politics, the sole security for the existence of their power. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) It needs cultivation and direction; but it's there—the vital principle, even if we don't recognize it when we see it. One Man in His Time They have no idea of his spirituality, or even of the spirituality of that principle, which constitutes their own vital principle. An Account of the Customs and Manners of the Micmakis and Maricheets Savage Nations, Now Dependent on the Government of Cape-Breton In these last suggestions, a vital principle in systematic beneficence is developed, which challenges our special attention. The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character It is only possible to reduce to a minimum the element of chance by scrupulously carrying out the dictates of the laws governing vital principles. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers "That sounds sensible," thought Hubert, who loved to hear vital principles discussed. The First Soprano Many singers do not understand these two vital principles. Vocal Mastery Talks with Master Singers and Teachers Why, because in such a person life is extinct—there is no vital principle—the heart is stopped—the blood has ceased to flow in its regular channels! Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life Miss Anthony.—Yes, your honor, I have many things to say; for in your ordered verdict of guilty you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years It would be repugnant to the vital principles of our government virtually to exclude from public trusts, talents and virtue, unless accompanied by wealth. Washington's Birthday On the contrary, both the Dominions and the Commonwealth were founded on that vital principle of a pre-existent State independence surrendered voluntarily for larger ends. The Framework of Home Rule It is the age which saw the crystallization of the party-system, and therein it may perhaps lay claim to have recognized what Bagehot called the vital principle of representative government. Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham Yet it should be, in conjunction with the imagination, the vital principle of control. Aspects of Literature It was on the part of the leader the assertion of a vital principle, and on this ground he was pledged against retreat. William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist The Irish Legislation was, moreover, compressed and thwarted by a foreign executive; but even to this tremendous agent the vital principle was too strong eventually to succumb. Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question Crass identifications of the vital principle with breath, as one with ether, which is twice emphasized as one of the two immortal things, were provisionally accepted. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Now it is evident, in summing up the salient features of this failure, that a vital principle was not germinating in the inchoate mass. Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 Religion, in the sense here indicated, is the mainspring and vital principle of Tragedy. The Seven Plays in English Verse Let us examine the vital principle of the theorem. The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines The seat of the vital principle, according to Professor Yaeger's theory, is not the protoplasm, but the odorant matter imbedded in it. Five Years of Theosophy But one must say something to show how in all good composition the mechanical principles at the basis of the matter are subordinate to a vital principle on which the life in the work depends. The Practice and Science of Drawing "You believe in the soul as an independent entity, then—-that it and the vital principle are not one and the same?" The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories Don't you trouble your head about people who raise an insurrection against the vital principles of all rightly constituted states! Mercadet A Comedy in Three Acts It is a compromise, but it has this one virtue which compromises rarely possess—that it will satisfy the great mass of the Irish people, and it concedes, as we hold, no vital principle. Ireland and the Home Rule Movement And such being the case, the vital principle, as far as it can be reached by the breaking up of its animated protoplasm, is really indestructible. Five Years of Theosophy So far I have troubled your Lordships with the system of confederacy and connivance, which, under his auspices, was the vital principle of almost the whole service. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12) "The Will" is Schopenhauer's "Will," the vital principle. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory Such are the various grades of hostility to the vital principles of the Gospel, from contemptuous indifference, to malignant and rancorous opposition. The National Preacher, Vol. 2 No. 7 Dec. 1827 Or Original Monthly Sermons from Living Ministers, Sermons XXVI. and XXVII. In order to answer this question, we need to consider certain fundamental and vital principles of Christianity. Secret Societies The Esoteric Doctrine tells us that the vital principle is indestructible, and, when disconnected with one set of atoms, becomes attracted by others. Five Years of Theosophy They will seek the vital principle in all sorts of objects and translate it into forms of every kind. Since Cézanne Bobby would read and absorb a dozen technical books in a week, reaching eagerly for the vital principles of his subject. The Rules of the Game The excellence of our universities is to be found in the fact that they are not mere institutions where instruction is given, but are workshops of science2—that their vital principle is unceasing scientific productivity. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 In consequence of the absence of this vital principle, the machinery of government became clogged, and political strife convulsed the country from one end to the other. Lord Elgin You are in the fortunate position that that which forms your own true personal interest coincides with the throbbing heart-beat of history—with the active, vital principle of moral development. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle We turned to bay only when driven back to the vital principle of our polity and the vital facts of our socialization. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 She alone realized, although but dimly, that the boy did not relinquish his subject until he had grasped those vital principles. The Rules of the Game Its vital principle exhausted and gone, its power of doing good terminated, the Union itself, become productive only of strife and contention, must ultimately fall, dishonored and unlamented. The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style The bill under consideration is designed only as a temporary measure; and thus a temporary measure, passed merely for the convenience of Congress, is made to affect the vital principle of an important act. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 4, part 2: John Tyler Several vegetables are so tenacious of their vital principle, that they will grow between papers; the consequence of which is, a destruction of their proper habit and colors. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden According to a Chinese philosopher, the reason for thus renewing fire periodically is that the vital principle grows weaker and weaker in old fire, whereas in new fire it is young and vigorous. Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul If anything preserves the statesmen of to-day, it will be only because we are coming to a contest of more vital principles, which may better embalm the men. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 He may indeed act upon the mind of a natural man, but He acts in the mind of a saint as an indwelling vital principle. The world's great sermons, Volume 03 Massillon to Mason It should stand rather for the vital principle in men and women, ever expanding, and rebuilding, and refreshing the human organism, partly a physical, but perhaps in a greater degree a spiritual energy. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays But the knowledge of grammar may retrograde; for whatever loses the vital principle of renovation and growth, tends to decay. The Grammar of English Grammars It stagnates the vital principle and leaves the limbs dull and heavy, with a lifeless feeling which can scarcely be overcome by vigorous action. Views a-foot In like manner, directly the vital principle becomes extinct in animals, decomposition ensues. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 342, November 22, 1828 The honest and independent exercise of the right of suffrage is a vital principle in the theory of representative government. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada It is felt that a great soul is in earnest about vital principles, and earnestness of itself is a giant as rare as forcible. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Besides that, it would be repugnant to the vital principles of our Government virtually to exclude from public trusts talents and virtue unless accompanied by wealth. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 1, part 1: George Washington For there is blood in the brain, James—even in the organ—the vital principle of all our "eagle-winged raptures"; and there was a taint of the black drop of melancholy in his. Famous Reviews No one conceives of the soul but as of a pure somewhat, which may be likened to ether, or air, or wind, containing a vital principle, from the rationality which man enjoys above the beasts. The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love "There is a vital principle at stake in the matter." The Marrow of Tradition To each individual being there is ascribed a vital principle, the Archeus, an individualization of the general force of nature, Vulcanus; so also to men. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time The principle of perfect equality is the vital principle of the system. The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War After this deed of sacrilege and cruelty, they continued to infest the confines of Irak, Syria, and Egypt: but the vital principle of enthusiasm had withered at the root. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Here is no snow or rain to mat down the grass, to suck out of it the vital principles. The Mountains The latter course involved merely a personal sacrifice—the former a vital principle. The Marrow of Tradition I undertake to discuss the vital principle of our government and our institutions, property: I am in my right. What is Property? In him some vital principle have in strange way found their utmost. Dracula Here first in modern times was recognized the vital principle of publicity in legislation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 Your whole life has been an over assertion of your personal independence and a denial of the greatest of all laws—the law of dependence, which is the vital principle of life itself. Helen of the Old House Sir, scoff as you may, love is the one vital principle in all romance. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 "Principles never die," and this is as true of the vital principles in nature, as those obtaining in ethics and morals. Life: Its True Genesis "Keeping in mind the distinguishing merits of the bogie, the other differences between English and American locomotives are differences more of costume and of toilet than of vital principles of construction." Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. This systematic transmission of official rank was, in fact, the vital principle of their government. The Iroquois Book of Rites He felt, no doubt, that the vital principle of The Union from the beginning had been compromise, mutual concession, and if it was to be severed, preferred that it should be peacefully. A Study of Hawthorne To summarize what has gone before: the Catholic Church becomes by the fifth century the soul, the vital principle, the continuity of Europe. Europe and the Faith "Sine auctoritate nulla vita" Their spawn and seeds are perishable by heat, but the vital principle that organizes them is as imperishable in one element as another. Life: Its True Genesis "Then why, my dear, resent, as you seem to do, the inevitable reassertion, in your own case, of the vital principle?" The Mountebank True, they were now in the spirit of her party, Mack Sennett himself couldn't have asked a better interpretation of his own vital principles. Ptomaine Street Greek letters, as we have seen, decayed with the Byzantine power, and the vital principle in both became extinct long before the sword of the Turkish conqueror inflicted the final blow. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities But could he have failed to defer to them on questions in which no vital principle was involved? Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him No seven-times heated furnace, much less the experimental flasks of the physicist, will affect a vital principle of nature any more than a May-morning puff of the east wind would shake Olympus. Life: Its True Genesis Moreover, in Cabet's first paragraph he shows contempt for one of the vital principles of a communistic society. The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation If the personality of Satan be not a vital principle of your religion, I do not know what is. Endymion That dignity, consisting in the quality of human nature, is essentially the same in all individuals, and therefore equality is the vital principle of democracy. Equality Is it fanaticism for her to believe with your Pinckney that "it will one day destroy the reverence for liberty, which is the vital principle of a Republic?" The American Union Speaker Simply because the vital principle that differentiates matter is gone--can no longer act. Life: Its True Genesis You have been letting slip the vital principle, if you are a fair specimen of the race. Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance Here the vital principle of his faithfulness was entrenched as in an impregnable fortress. The Romance of Zion Chapel [3d ed.] During this period the democratic idea remained a mere protest against a previous form of government, absolutely without any new positive or vital principle of its own. Equality It is, however, only an apparent paradox—beneath it lies a vital principle. Are You a Bromide? The Sulphitic Theory Expounded and Exemplified According to the Most Recent Researches into the Psychology of Boredom Including Many Well-Known Bromidioms Now in Use The cells are the result of the vital principle that lies behind them, and simply indicate where life exists, or has manifestly ceased to exist. Life: Its True Genesis But I trust the vital principle is only as under snow. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 An attempt is now making in this State to change the vital principles of our government, to remove from office all our present rulers, and to introduce a new order of things. Count the Cost An Address to the People of Connecticut, On Sundry Political Subjects, and Particularly on the Proposition for a New Constitution Thales looked around him upon Nature, upon the sea and earth and sky, and concluded that water or moisture was the vital principle. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations These four vital principles will be applied to practical work in the following chapters. The Child under Eight If the integrity of the bone depended on the action of the molecules, and not on the vital principle, there is no reason why this experiment should not be a success. Life: Its True Genesis It is not technical creeds for which the Church as a whole stands, but for certain vital principles which concern the life of the soul, and its relation to God and man. The Warriors It is to be recollected that the proposition is to change the vital principles of our government—to displace our present rulers and to fill their places with men who never enjoyed the public confidence. Count the Cost An Address to the People of Connecticut, On Sundry Political Subjects, and Particularly on the Proposition for a New Constitution With all this outward show of prosperity, her political institutions had gradually lost the vital principle, which could alone give them stability or real value. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3 The first vital principle then is that the teacher of young children must provide life in miniature; that is, she must provide abundant raw material and opportunities for experience. The Child under Eight Why they make their appearance is not a debatable question, except as we assume a preëxisting vital principle, and apply to its elucidation our subtlest dialectical methods. Life: Its True Genesis I merely wish to show what are considered to be the vital principles on which their systems were based, and the general spirit of their speculations. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. Thus the stars, having blazed until their vital principle is absorbed in space, sink into relative torpor, or, as the astronomers say, die. The Emancipation of Massachusetts The very first law, the very vital principle of true Charity, is righteousness. Godliness : being reports of a series of addresses delivered at James's Hall, London, W. during 1881 The following chapters seek to apply practically the four vital principles to these periods of a child's life, but in many cases the Transition Classes and the Junior School are considered together. The Child under Eight An organism cannot exist without life or an independent vital principle in nature, any more than celestial bodies can be held in their place independently of gravitation. Life: Its True Genesis He looked around him upon Nature, upon the sea and earth and sky, and concluded that water or moisture was the vital principle. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. Is it because the verb is the animating power, the vital principle of every sentence, and that without which understood or uttered, no sentence can exist? or can you offer any other reason? On the Study of Words I maintain that the vital principle survives within them. Bat Wing "The first vital principle is that the teacher of young children must provide for them life in miniature, i.e. she must provide abundant raw material and opportunities for acquiring experience." The Child under Eight It is not the material seed that germinates, but the vital principle it contains, bursting forth from its environment into newness of life. Life: Its True Genesis The development of resources was a vital principle of the Roman government. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. It must be founded on vital principles and have a living faith. Public Speaking Or are we bound to consider the further question: Is the original conception just, and capable of artistic treatment; and is the workmanship true to the vital principles of poetry? English literary criticism In Our Nervous Friends will be found portrayed, often with photographic clearness, a series of lives, with confidences protected, illustrating chapter for chapter the more vital principles of the author's The Mastery of Nervousness. Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness But the vital principle that produced them--that which becomes germinal under the proper conditional incidences--he can no more destroy by experimentation than he can create a new world or annihilate the old one. Life: Its True Genesis He, therefore, traced the interchange of light-values in colourless after-images to a 'silent resistance which every vital principle is forced to exhibit when some definite condition is presented to it. Man or Matter Yet at the same time there must be no surrender of vital principles. The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox Suppose, however, that the intellectual and vital principle differs in the most marked and essential manner from all other known substances; that they have all some resemblance between themselves which it in no degree participates. A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays You were right in what you said was the vital principle of Christianity--brotherly love, not alone of the rich for the rich, but of the poor and rich for each other. Caesar's Column It is by this sort of scientific verbiage that he gets rid of the pre-existing vital principle, or germinal principle of life, which the biblical genesis declares to be in the earth itself. Life: Its True Genesis Tell me," pursued Heliobas, "how do you define the vital principle? Ardath I am convinced that the San Francisco Convention will endorse in its vital principles the League adopted at Versailles. The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox Some one," he shot out, suddenly, looking up and facing us, "has, as I have intimated, been removing or destroying the vital principle in the food—these vitamines. The Treasure-Train In the discussion of the clean summer fallow as a vital principle of dry-farming a slight difference of opinion was discovered. Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall It is the vital principle that differentiates matter--the aggregate of molecules--not matter differentiating the vital principle. Life: Its True Genesis Thus starch, gum, sugar, beer, wine, spirits, &c., furnish no element capable of entering into the composition of blood, muscular fibre, or any part which is the seat of the vital principle. Familiar Letters on Chemistry Our platform clearly lays no bar against any additions that will be helpful, but it speaks in a firm resolution to stand against anything that disturbs the vital principle. The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox Small quantities of these vital principles are absolutely essential to normal growth and health and even to life itself. The Treasure-Train What is called by idealists the SOUL," argues another, "is simply the vital principle composed of heat and air, which escapes from the body at death, and mingles again with its native element. A Romance of Two Worlds The fact that nature still obeys this command is proof that she has the power to do so--that this indestructible vital principle still animates her breast. Life: Its True Genesis Thirdly, it may seem odd to say so, just after inculcating that party organisation is the vital principle of representative government, but that organisation is permanently efficient, because it is not composed of warm partisans. The English Constitution Yet their vital principle is not so much that of being self-evident as being, from the nature of the case, incapable of demonstration. Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science But the vital principle is an impulse from an immortal artist, and sometimes baffles, even in its tenderest phasis, the machinations of society for its extinction. Sybil, or the Two Nations Miss ANTHONY-Yes, your Honor, I have many things to say; for in your ordered verdict of guilty, you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. Jailed for Freedom The organism is the phenomenal manifestation, not the vital principle which organizes it. Life: Its True Genesis Power, in fact, is ever true to its vital principle, for in every shape it would reign without controul or inquiry. Vindication of the Rights of Woman This is one of several indications that the Kayans vaguely distinguish two souls — on the one hand the ghost-soul or shade, which in dreams wanders afar, on the other hand the vital principle. The Pagan Tribes of Borneo The attitude of the opposition was a radical and vicious blow at the vital principles of the sphere itself. The Enchanted Typewriter He comes of a great nation, wherein the principle of freedom is a vital principle that quickens all things. The Lady of the Shroud To say that there can be no manifestation of life without an organism is true; but to assume that the vital principle which organizes is dependent on its own organism for its manifestation is absurd. Life: Its True Genesis It was a strange opposition, of the like of which she had never dreamed—an opposition in which the vital principle of the one was a thing of contempt to the other. The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 I cannot please them without wantonly violating not only my oath, but the most vital principles upon which our government was founded. Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller And I do not recall that in any of the measures which Roosevelt supported these two vital principles were violated. Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography In the darkest period of the war, they showed no disposition to concede any vital principle. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 And yet there is no evidence that the vital principle perishes in the destruction of its temporary organism. Life: Its True Genesis In both cases the vital principle eludes the finest instruments, and vanishes in the very instant in which its seat is touched. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 Generation after generation, both in animal and vegetable life, passes away, but the vital principle is transmitted to posterity, and the species continue to flourish. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon This "vital principle" differed from the soul, and was not exhibited in human beings alone, but even in animals and plants. A History of Science — Volume 4 It is the vital principle of my authority to insist on that. The Egoist In all life-manifestations, this "force from without," must be a pre-existing vital principle operating to effect the otherwise impossible change in matter. Life: Its True Genesis The vital principle in that poodle, Mr. Kerby, must have been singularly intensified. After Dark I made all the necessary jokes about the strength of the vital principle in Lady Malkinshaw, and the broken condition of my own constitution; but he solemnly abstained from understanding one of them. A Rogue's Life During this promenade Etienne was conscious of that bodily buoyancy which all men have felt at the moment when a first love transports their vital principle into another being. The Hated Son Hence, also its transmigrations, known by the name of metempsychosis, that is, the passage of the vital principle from one body to another; an idea which arose from the real transmigration of the material elements. The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature But the thing that organizes must exist before the thing organized, whether it be a vital principle or an intelligent agency. Life: Its True Genesis Then came Hippocrates, the eighteenth from Aesculapius, and of him we have manuscripts; to him we owe 'the vital principle.' The Cloister and the Hearth But throughout creation Nature has confined the vital principle within a narrow space, in order to concentrate its power; and so it is with the body politic. The Country Doctor The vital principle, gentlemen," he continued, "the Archeus of Van Helmont, is affected in his case—the very essence and centre of life is attacked. The Magic Skin The soul is but the vital principle which results from the properties of matter, and from the action of the elements in those bodies where they create a spontaneous movement. The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature Without some vital principle, therefore, preëxisting as a cause, there can be no life-manifestation. Life: Its True Genesis Yet these persons themselves are by their very actions proving the efficiency of the vital principles which we have enunciated. Origin and Nature of Emotions The soul of man is a spark of the vital flame, the general vital principle. History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science |
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