| 单词 | potentiality |
| 例句 | His military aide, Navy Captain John H. Morse Jr., seconded his opinion: “You may detect some feeling that clean weapon potentialities have been over-stated and over-simplified recently,” he wrote Lawrence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “He told me that he had originally contemplated suicide when he realized the terrible potentialities of his discovery and he felt that now these had been realized and he was to blame.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z We are cultural animals and it is the richness of our culture which allows us to accept our undoubted potentiality for violence but to believe nevertheless that its expression is a cultural aberration. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z And only Willie-Jay had ever recognized his worth, his potentialities, had acknowledged that he was not just an undersized, overmuscled half-breed, had seen him, for all the moralizing, as he saw himself—“exceptional,” “rare,” “artistic.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z It is possible that the experimenters wished to see whether human beings lacking continuous sexual potentiality would remain intelligent and capable of culture. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z From these items I drew my first political conclusions about Bigger: I felt that Bigger, an American product, a native son of this land, carried within him the potentialities of either Communism or Fascism. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z A tadpole is potentially a frog, and as it grows it develops from potentiality to actuality. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Perhaps we would find that if we twelve men took the same tests, one or two of us might be discovered to have unconscious desires to kill, and the potentiality of carrying them out. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Since one cannot bespeak until one has been bespoken, until the telepathic potentiality has been sensitized by one clear reception, I had to get through to him first. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Furthermore, initiation into the magnificent world of science brings great esthetic satisfaction, inspiration to youth, fulfillment of the desire to know, and a deeper appreciation of the wonderful potentialities and achievements of the human mind. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z A large, middle-aged man, he long ago won my admiration by offering equal job opportunities to members of any race, choosing according to their qualifications and future potentialities. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But then, it's almost impossible, to flick through the pages of the Catalog and recapture its newness and radicalism and potentialities. Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth Catalog, the book that changed the world 2013-05-04T23:00:04Z They are important because they reaffirm the place of form and imagination in times that would deny their potentialities. The Role of Art in a Time of War 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z “Maybe we all need to think about the long-lasting potentiality of flying to 10 art fairs and 10 biennials every year, and whether this is relevant and urgent.” At the Manifesta Biennial, a French City’s Tough Realities Go on Show 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z The year 1947 did mark a tipping point between the savagery of the immediate past and the tentative stirrings of postwar potentialities. Surviving Europe’s Horrendous 20th Century 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Lila is the unwritten, unexpressed female potentiality, a more obstinate version of Virginia Woolf’s concept of Shakespeare’s sister. ‘The Story of the Lost Child,’ by Elena Ferrante 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Indeed, Heisenberg said that quantum particles “are not as real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.” What Does Quantum Physics Actually Tell Us About the World? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Expanding my consciousness brought compassionate closure to my past, opening a future of stupendous potentiality, a world of radical joy. Acid redux: My long, strange, cancer-fighting trip back to tripping 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z I would argue that Dylan writes his poetry in a way that takes full advantage of the potentialities of performance. Bob Dylan’s prophecy: The kryptonite we need against Trumpism 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z There's a metaphysical touch of paradox in the notion of becoming "whole as a half" but, although wholeness is obviously desirable, the poem doesn't quite celebrate the potentiality. Poem of the week: Fruition by Rhian Edwards 2012-06-18T11:24:52Z Exhaustion is the "necessary corollary" of potentiality, they continue. Oulipo: freeing literature by tightening its rules 2013-07-12T09:34:37Z How even email “is fuelling the addiction of being distracted from the moment you’re in by another potentiality”. ‘People just want a bully’ - director Mike Mills on how the US picks its president 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z For Mr. Curtis, the revisions represent “an ongoing process of completing the work, in a way, of continuing to work out the potentialities that are latent in the piece.” La Monte Young Is Still Patiently Working on a Glacial Scale 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z In the theater season just concluding, just about all of those potentialities were explored in a virtual mini-festival of two-person plays. Two-Character Plays Are Highlights of Theater Season 2010-05-08T02:40:00Z That’s because sympathy that fails to recognize culpability also fails to recognize potentiality. The Lives of Poor White People 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z He must constantly see to it that all his potentialities, all his consumer capacities are mobilized. What does OKCupid want? 2013-02-16T17:00:00Z Like uranium, Elizabeth Taylor was an unstable element that could be variously refined unto many enormous potentialities. Elizabeth Taylor: Weapon of mass obsession 2011-03-23T22:16:00Z It is the most shameless tear-jerker in a couple of years … the emotional potentialities are strong, and no reluctance, restraint or artful prudence has been exercised in banging them across. So You Want to Watch a Weepie 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z “What was the lost potentiality? What symphonies weren’t written? What cures weren’t found? What children weren’t raised with love?” Documentary examines how what the U.S. did -- and did not do -- helped shape the Holocaust 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z But, he added, “we know that the potentiality is there.” A big question remains amid LAPD photo scandal: Just who is an undercover officer? 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z Sexual frigidity is “the inability to enjoy physical love to the limits of its potentiality.” From Orgasms to Overdoses: How Marie Nyswander Went from Treating ‘Sexual Frigidity’ to Heroin Addiction 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z “I’m not crying, ‘Oh, poor me, I’ve been flooded,’ because I knew of the potentiality of it and I prepared for it.” Mississippi residents prepare for possible river flooding 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Using Aristotelian terms, we could say that God as Being lacked potentiality and was best thought of as that being that attained complete actuality or perfection—in other words, necessary being. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z From here, we move to the third card, which is our potentiality card: What is emerging? L.A. is due for a transformation. This three-card tarot reading will reveal what kind 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z So there was something wanton, even brazenly wasteful in sacrificing an ox to the gods — a loss of not only the animal’s life but the potentiality it represented for human success and survival. On Strawberry Fanta and Other Treats Imbued With Divine Status 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z Abolitionism challenges the constant potentiality of state violence and repression and suggests a different logic of community empowerment, harm reduction and social justice. More guns and prisons are not a solution to racial disparity. Could defunding the police be the answer? | Chris Cunneen 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z Wiley has set out “to expose the beautiful and terrible potentiality of art to sculpt the language of domination”. Urban warrior in Nikes and a hoodie leads charge against white orthodoxy 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z Aristotle describes the becoming as movement from a state of potentiality to actuality. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Each figure played a key role in shaping an evocative notion of the region’s sense of potentiality. These stories explain L.A.'s dazzling rise 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z The question, of course, is whether the manifestly exciting potentialities of space will include a practical and affordable role for humans. The moon was once a frontier. But new worlds now beckon | Martin Rees 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z State prosecutors are bringing the case in an apparent effort to guard against the potentiality that Trump would pardon Manafort. Paul Manafort was scheduled to be moved to Rikers Island — until a new Trump appointee stepped in 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z This potentiality would discourage him from pardoning Stone in the first place. How Roger Stone’s trial could expose Donald Trump 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z The movement from potentiality toward actuality is one method to make sense of change while maintaining a constant or underlying sense of true being. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Either potentiality is, terrifyingly and suddenly, well within the realm of possibility. Alabama's abortion ban shows the chilling effect of Brett Kavanaugh's appointment | Jill Filipovic 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z “Negroes have demonstrated throughout recorded time that they are a stationary species and that they do not possess the potentiality of progress or initiative from within,” Grant wrote. A brief history of the enduring phony science that perpetuates white supremacy 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Democrats should start laying the groundwork for that potentiality by demanding he step down now. Democrats have an impeachment dilemma 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z A final reason for doubting progress is the future, in all its terrifying potentiality. Are Things Getting Better or Worse? 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z In Aquinas’ arguments offered in this section, motion was not movement from one place to another but rather movement from potentiality to actuality, i.e, becoming. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z The downside to smart cities, Couto said, is that they open up many more avenues for potentiality breaking into the back end of a transit system. Metro cybersecurity audit highlights growing concerns at agencies across the country 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z To be truly useful, an analogy must be precise not only in its actualities but in its potentialities. Perspective | Seeing so much of the present through Watergate makes it harder to see the future 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Let it float among its rich potentialities, forever young, forever letting process transcend resolution, and, like the poet’s own talent, at home in numerous places and seasons. Poem of the week: Life is a Dream by John Ashbery 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Of the 3.5 million potentiality unauthorized accounts the bank has now identified, about 190,000 incurred fees and other charges, Wells Fargo said, up from its initial estimate of 130,000. Wells Fargo finds an additional 1.4 million potentially fake accounts 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z “Maximum potentiality motivates me even as I wake up every day and see the limits of my own power.” At Sundance, an anarchist creates waves 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z For all of us, whether Americans by birth or naturalization, America is not just an actuality but a potentiality, too. American Voters Are Responsible for Protecting Democracy 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z The second thing is that this is about potentiality. Ken Burns: Individuals Can Change History 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z For cells in the body, stem-ness is a fleeting state—a potentiality that fades as cells begin to specialize. The Stem-Cell Scandal 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z To this day, empty notebooks beckon to him with their potentiality. A Collector Sees the Potential in a Humble Paper Clip 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z “The problem is that the genome only encodes some upstream potentiality, and doesn’t read out what the organism is actually doing,” Stamatoyannopoulos said. GlaxoSmithKline, Searching for Hit Drugs, Pours $95M into 'Dark Matter' of the Genome 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z If free speech allows us to define and affirm our potentiality, it does so with consequences because we exercise that right within a community. Choosing to forgive but not erase But then when you see what individuals who were saved became, then you realize that that 6 million people represent a huge loss of human potentiality, and that’s what drew me. Ken Burns: Individuals Can Change History 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z That is, free speech is essential and guaranteed in a democracy because it empowers every person to define and affirm the self, a necessary step in realizing one’s “potentiality as a human being.” The ‘right to be forgotten’ online is really a right to be forgiven Now, in a potentiality stunning development in the case — centered in a municipally owned cemetery in the northeastern corner of Alabama — remains that were exhumed Thursday may tell a different story. Exhumed body in Alabama could be notorious Bethesda fugitive Brad Bishop For them, foreclosing the potentialities of all future generations would be so catastrophic that we should strive to reduce even the tiniest probability that this could happen. Forecasts: Hopes and Fears About Climate Change 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z These potentialities still exist at Glastonbury and other festivals, even if only as an echo. Republicans at Burning Man, Tories at Glastonbury – what does it mean? 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z “The potentiality of a spider’s movement is it can be here and it can be over there in a split second,” Garfield says. How The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Turned Up the Spectacle 2014-05-02T15:14:38Z As was anticipated by the Olympic organizers who designed the tournament format just for this potentiality, the U.S. will meet its neighbors to the north for the gold medal Thursday . U.S., Canada rematch set in women's hockey final 2014-02-17T21:02:00Z As the whole world anticipated, including Olympic organizers who designed the tournament format just for this potentiality, the U.S. will meet its neighbors to the North for the gold medal Thursday. U.S. and Canada ready to battle for gold in women’s hockey 2014-02-18T04:29:11Z Belcher said there are instances in which bandwidth is shared, but none where the frequencies shared involve potentiality life-threatening circumstances, as they would with vehicle-to-vehicle technology. ‘Connected-vehicle technology’ could cut crashes while paving way for driverless cars 2014-02-03T23:13:00Z What’s the value of a child’s lost future, which lies like some subatomic phenomenon in a field of potentiality? Our sick gun fetish is destroying us: Tea Party fantasies kill kids 2013-12-14T13:15:00Z This world of potentialities is not contained within space and time; it is a higher-dimensional world whose structure is described by the mathematics of quantum theory. Can We Resolve Quantum Paradoxes by Stepping Out of Space and Time? [Guest Post] 2013-06-21T14:45:00.353Z Depending on the strain, some plants are high in CBD but also contain a lesser amount of THC which is said to enhance the healing potentiality. Could pot stop breast cancer? 2012-11-26T21:57:00Z For it must be remembered that the organs of the adult do not exist as such in the germ but are present there only as potentialities. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z The potentialities of language, as the vocal symbol of thought, lay in the faculty of modulating and articulating the voice. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z It is impossible, beginning with the natural world, to explain the mind by any process of distillation or development, unless consciousness or its potentiality has been there from the first. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z My development of the Transactional Interpretation makes use of an important idea of Werner Heisenberg: “Atoms and the elementary particles themselves … form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than things of the facts.” Can We Resolve Quantum Paradoxes by Stepping Out of Space and Time? [Guest Post] 2013-06-21T14:45:00.353Z As railways pushed out, the attention of Victorian capitalists was attracted by the potentialities of Western Queensland. Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information 2012-04-22T02:00:09.320Z It has been proved beyond question that the ordinary child contains at birth potentialities of development far greater in amount and variety than any amount of schooling can ever bring into full realization. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z For a general view of the economic situation and potentialities of China, see George B. Cressey, China's Geographic Foundations, New York, 1934. The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I 2012-04-04T02:00:55.303Z You may call it “protoplasm,” “molecular force,” the “potentiality of matter,” or even matter itself; and when you tell us what these words mean we will tell you what we mean by “God.” The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z In England, however, people cared for none of these things, and were blind to the commercial potentialities of scientific research. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Copper and tin are responsible for more than half the amount named, but the potentialities of the district as far as other minerals are concerned are almost unlimited. Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information 2012-04-22T02:00:09.320Z In respect to a vast majority of the things to be learned, the child is a mere bundle of potentialities, all of which must bide their time for an awakening. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z Now, in allowing the principle of nationalism to do the work of the principle of democracy, Sun Yat-sen was using the anti-dynastic revolutionary potentialities of the situation to push along an anti-monarchical movement. The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I 2012-04-04T02:00:55.303Z Districts rich in the potentialities of industry and prosperity were in the grip of famine. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z The two girls, and the freckled girl in particular, tried to "stir him up" to some effort to do his imputed potentialities justice. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z This potentiality of the better literature to produce such noble results in the higher range of culture is dependent upon conditions. Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School 2012-03-17T02:01:04.053Z Force is sometimes called the determining factor, but an abstract Force we do not know; we know force only as motion or the equivalent of motion in resistance, or as the conceived potentiality of motion. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z But intelligence is not only consciousness and actual existence, but quâ intelligence is the subject and the potentiality of its own specialisations. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z No one can doubt that development is progressive differentiation, but it is rather a realisation of a complex inheritance of materialised potentialities than a change from an incoherent, indefinite homogeneity to a coherent, definite heterogeneity. Herbert Spencer 2012-02-29T03:00:20.773Z But, since he firmly declined to admit his secretary's potentiality for anything except efficient clerical work, he was only irritated by it. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z One wonders that they did not claim a share in a process which involved such boundless potentialities of wealth! Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z Force is the abstract term by which we include motion, resistance, and the conceived potentiality of motion, under one head. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z This is so because he expresses potentialities of human nature which also exist in them, only not unfolded to the same degree as in him. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z In general terms, a process of Becoming everywhere leads, through the interaction of inherent potentialities and environmental conditions, to a new phase of Being. Herbert Spencer 2012-02-29T03:00:20.773Z Impossible, diabolical, inhuman as Barabas or Richard III, he is never for a moment unplausible, because he ever unearths a corresponding potentiality in us. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z Thus it is that he describes his hero’s capacity and potentiality. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z We may, therefore, regard it as in this sense embracing the potentialities of evolution. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z The more abstract the potentialities with which these systems begin, the later we may assume their origin to be. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z "Each nature is a bundle of potentialities of which only some are allowed by the conditions to become actualities." Herbert Spencer 2012-02-29T03:00:20.773Z “The Great Barrier Reef of Australia; its products and potentialities,” by W. Saville Kent, F.L.S., is a splendid work, and beautifully illustrated. Early Days in North Queensland 2012-01-24T03:00:29.987Z He has in him, this is to say, the potentiality of divinity realisable at will. The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation 2012-01-18T03:00:12.427Z Are we to look upon the conditions involved in the environment as mere negatives and simply developing the positive potentialities of the germ-plasm? A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z In our absolute ignorance of the source from whence life came, we have no ground for assuming that it was a purely planetary product, or that its unknown potentialities are concerned with purely planetary ends. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z Is it not evident that it is the economic potentialities of the Japanese race that we must meet? Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace 2011-12-14T03:00:16.577Z Continuity in time becomes mere succession without the notion of potentiality, and this in turn is empty. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z And Christendom, yielding to sacerdotal dictation, has to this day accepted a doctrine which at once dishonours God and robs men of their equal divine potentialities with Jesus, thus preferring Barabbas. The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation 2012-01-18T03:00:12.427Z The positivity of these elements takes from the primal germ-plasm any superiority of potentiality; the potentiality lies also in the environment. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z In seeing this I saw too how far short they fall of the potentialities of an immortal soul. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z It brings out into clear consciousness certain potentialities in the realization of which man’s true good must consist. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z And this is the way a large number of world-shaking passions begin, since at first we seldom apprehend our potentiality. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z It has thus been of infinitely more advantage, by the potentiality of an example, than any number of victories at New London. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z The concept of potentiality of motion is, however, again only a device of reason for bringing unity into our conception of things by accounting for the appearance of motion where before it was not. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z To two of them at least it might be that it would come back with all the more marked contrast—perchance of deadly peril and fear—but that was within the potentialities of the Future. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z Particularly one, that which would be capped next in the orbit of the lever, held him fascinated; the winking potentiality of it thralled him, as the troubled crystal devours the gaze of the Hindu magi. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z Consequently the island was developed in accordance with the wishes, needs, and potentialities of Spain and with one other point of view. The History of Cuba, vol. 3 2011-11-28T03:00:26.510Z In the choking breath of the simoom he feels the potentialities of God, and his own helpless impotence. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z Potentiality is no existence, no reality; actual potentiality is a contradiction in terms. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z In what the Stanfords have already done, there is an assured potentiality of great things of some sort for all future time. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z It is only when he meets Molly Betterton and sees himself as analyzed by her candid native acumen, that he learns his own weakness and the true potentialities of his wealth. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z The world knew almost nothing of its natural wealth and its inestimable resources, its potentialities of greatness. The History of Cuba, vol. 3 2011-11-28T03:00:26.510Z Religion as a natural product was beyond his comprehension and potentialities. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z As a matter of fact, it is not proven that the linguistic potentialities of all men are the same. Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley 2011-11-24T03:00:46.350Z Should the passion of wayward girls defy the wisdom and wishes of parents and guardians, who have learned in long years of costly experience something of the potentialities of this many-sided life? A Mere Chance, Vol. 3 of 3 A Novel 2011-11-24T03:00:45.990Z The ambition of Claire saddened him to contemplate; it had so rich a potentiality for its background. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z But either, alone, would have been but an incomplete and valueless thing, had it not become united with the complementary half-cell required to complete it structurally, and to engender and energise its potentialities. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z He also saw that in a country like Arabia, split up into clans and communities, it was only possible to effect this through the spiritual potentialities of the one and only true God. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z It is further conceivable that a particular linguistic potentiality should be inherited and become as good a race mark as any other. Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley 2011-11-24T03:00:46.350Z It was but a weak little spike as yet, but undeniably there was the potentiality of growth in it. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z They are still with me, in all their innocence, potentiality and resolve. Children of a Lesser God 2011-10-29T14:40:00Z But again, it must also be conceived as actually everything, and potentially nothing; for an unrealized potentiality is likewise a limitation. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z Individually, it has a mind; collectively, it has not; at all times it is a thing of great potentialities overworked, and of great needs habitually ignored. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z But there are other men who attain greatness because they embody the potentiality of their own day and magically reflect the future. Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley 2011-11-24T03:00:46.350Z Why are we so privately minded as to enthuse over Mrs. so-and-so's out-of-the-city movement for children, never thinking of the potentialities of establishments like Girard College? Bill's School and Mine A Collection of Essays on Education 2011-10-05T02:00:19.377Z Continuance of relief upon a temporary basis until all claimants are registered and the aggregate of available aid ascertained, and the needs, resources and potentialities of self-help studied. Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster 2011-10-02T02:00:12.020Z All ideal objects are "unrealized potentialities"; and yet they are the opposite of limitations proper. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z They already possessed the potentiality of so doing. Spencer's Philosophy of Science The Herbert Spencer Lecture Delivered at the Museum 7 November, 1913 2011-09-25T02:00:15.883Z In the new-born infant the character of the stock lies latent, and the Ego is little more than a bundle of potentialities. Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley 2011-11-24T03:00:46.350Z He knew what was about to happen, his experience told him much more as to the awful potentialities of the tempest than she could possibly imagine. The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado 2011-09-22T02:00:25.630Z There is generated a state of potentiality for reverse directions. Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster 2011-10-02T02:00:12.020Z If any change took place in his creative potentialities, it was because he deliberately allowed it. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z As a matter of fact, M. Bergson seems to put into Life, as Spencer put into the Unknowable, the potentiality of producing all that actually exists. Spencer's Philosophy of Science The Herbert Spencer Lecture Delivered at the Museum 7 November, 1913 2011-09-25T02:00:15.883Z For unnumbered millenniums man has toiled upward from the dank jungles of savagery toward glorious heights which his mental and spiritual potentialities give promise that he shall attain. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z It is the contradiction, or the antithesis, which brings into being the whole kingdom of the potentialities and gifts of nature and of humanity. The life and teaching of Karl Marx 2011-09-03T02:00:19.203Z It requires the eye of an adept to recognize any potentiality of sparkle in so dull a lump. Stories about Famous Precious Stones 2011-08-31T02:01:42.217Z These potentialities were developed after Miss S—— went to New York, and soon placed her in a position of importance and responsibility. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z "I certainly can," he admitted, answering the eager question and emphasizing the potentiality. The City of Numbered Days 2011-08-31T02:01:25.807Z The potentialities of the Chinese soldier would acquire vastly greater significance if China should be thoroughly subjugated by, or solidly leagued to, ambitious and militaristic Japan. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z It is not so used in the Septuagint, and it is quite evident that the Apostle does not employ it to express external effects or works, but spiritual phenomena or potentiality. Supernatural Religion, Vol. III. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:34.690Z This being the case, it is important to discover how miracles perform their function as the indispensable evidence for a Divine Revelation, for with this disability they do not seem to possess much potentiality. Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:33.183Z But again, it must also be conceived as actually everything and potentially nothing; for an unrealised potentiality is likewise a limitation. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z It was like dynamite in its potentialities for mischief. The Sea Bride 2011-07-30T02:00:14.537Z The Pacific States comprise an empire of vast potentialities and capable of supporting a population of many millions. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z Even then certain races may have had intellectual powers and potentialities beyond those of other races. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Individual tendencies to cold or to fatigue, to nerve storms or to indolence; individual capacities in diet, occupation or exercise, must be intelligently respected if potentialities are to become actualities. Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women 2011-07-20T02:00:13.547Z He never lives to his full potentiality either in achievement or in passion. Knut Hamsun 2011-07-18T02:00:21.927Z The possibilities were infinite; the potentialities for trouble were enormous. The Sea Bride 2011-07-30T02:00:14.537Z The prospects were magnificent, the potentialities of progress apparently unlimited. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z It is nebulous, but it is a nebula which has within itself the potentiality of worlds of thought. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z They must, therefore, assume an increasing rather than a diminishing importance, if the full development of potentialities is to be insured in the rising generation, and racial progress promoted. Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women 2011-07-20T02:00:13.547Z The eye also is attuned to that which limits and surrounds its potentialities. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z Michael knew her mother had wanted Sophie to grow up on the Ridge and to realise that all the potentialities of real and deep happiness were there. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z The colored peril of arms may thus be summarized: The brown and yellow races possess great military potentialities. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z Between our would-be misogynist and the proposed mental transformation stood that bright and wholly alluring potentiality whose name was Alma Wyatt. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z If he is to realise his full potentialities, he must have protection for years after birth and an extended time for development. Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women 2011-07-20T02:00:13.547Z There has been much emphasis laid on the potentialities for harm of the microbes, and very little on the important part which they play in the production of many forms of food materials. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z And yet—You see I recognized potentialities for loving in you. The Story of an Untold Love 2011-06-17T02:00:17.643Z All three contain ominous potentialities, both singly and in combination. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z All his convictions concerning the potentialities of the soul became fortified. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z Once the jarring discords of debility, disease, and deterioration have been modulated into the major chords of health—moral and physical—the latent potentialities of his higher life will be quickened into productive activity. Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women 2011-07-20T02:00:13.547Z They are both tremendously impressed by what I may term 'the potentialities of the tailing heap.' The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z The potentiality of all physical life was there in those electric currents, but not the spirit or soul-life of man. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z The Asiatic, conscious of his past and his potentialities, is chary of foreign innovations and refuses to recognize alien superiority. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z He had recognised, even at college, their immeasurable potentialities—a favourite word of his. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z Thomas Poole, his friend and benefactor, was a well-to-do tanner, well-educated and a devout student of literature: he discerned the potentialities of great things in Coleridge, and felt honoured by his acquaintanceship. A Day with Samuel Taylor Coleridge 2011-06-08T02:00:18.910Z Improper lighting does produce apparent incongruous effects but adequately controlled it is a powerful medium whose potentiality has not been fully realized. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z I should be remiss, however, in my chronicle did I not note that among these partial and ephemeral landladies occasionally are to be found pronounced landlady potentialities. Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z That is what will probably come anyway as soon as Japan and China, impelled by overcrowding and conscious of their united potentialities, shall have arrived at a genuine understanding. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z He believed absolutely in the equality of souls before God, and he recognised with ever-increasing satisfaction the potentialities of bodies and minds, if taken in hand early in life. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z His voyage in its potentiality was second only to that of Columbus, as the outcome of the succeeding five years plainly indicates. Explorers and Travellers 2011-05-11T02:00:17.627Z It is the life of color and it must be fully appreciated if the potentiality of lighting is to be drawn upon as it should be. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z And he then proceeded to write a poem whose potentiality was not won at the expense of directness. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z Matter and its potentialities granted, all else flows in assured course. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z Creative power or activity does not need any pre-existing subject on which to exercise its influence, any subject in whose passive potentiality the thing to be created is antecedently implicit. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z They are bad a great deal of the time, but before it has been knocked out of them they see no limit to the potentialities of the human will. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z The decorator should begin to realize more fully the great potentiality of lighting in creating moods or in giving expression to an interior. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z He recognized suggestion or, as I prefer to say, potentiality, in pictures that were decorations rather than anecdotes, and, in his preference of potential over kinetic speech, made his own work decorative rather than realistic. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z He would be at liberty to summon from the limbo of potentiality any form that interested him; poetry and art would recover their early freedom; there would be no beauties forbidden and none prescribed. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z The natural passive potentiality of things is, moreover, limited in reference to the active powers of the created universe. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z Now was a good time to gauge its potentialities and discover for himself what manner of creature it might be. Swamp Cat 2011-03-06T03:00:20.453Z He hated innovation, but he was aware that the Great Serpent held potentialities which he must not antagonize. Mr. Claghorn's Daughter 2011-03-03T03:00:53.083Z Decoration was for him a mode of potentiality. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z In the second place, the effectiveness and potentiality of the Negro vote in the North and West depends upon an absolute and courageous disregard of traditions. 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 Moreover, they are themselves passive as well as active; interaction is universal among the finite causes which constitute the universe of our direct experience: they all alike have passive potentiality and undergo change. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z One might not say what a moment so charged with angry potentialities might bring forth. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z It unites in itself all the potentiality of gout and all the ubiquity of rheumatism. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z The difference between them in the mere matter of potentialities is the difference between a corner grocery and a department store, or a kite with a tail and one without. The Genial Idiot His Views and Reviews 2011-02-18T03:00:20.773Z Until it has this, its potentiality will be nil. 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 The existence of a contingent being we conceive as the actuality of its essence; and its essence as a definite potentiality of existence. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z The ecstatic potentiality in reflection is seen in Job, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The fact is, nanotubes do all kinds of unique things and they won’t prevail until those unique potentialities are explored. Steve Forbes Interview: Gilder On Tech Innovation 2011-02-14T05:42:03Z Never since history first began to be recorded was there such a supreme example of the potentialities of sea-power. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z She unhooked her dress, gazing at her reflection with solemn eyes, which foresaw the potentialities of a remarkable situation. What Not A Prophetic Comedy 2011-02-09T03:00:50.423Z No doubt when any individual nature is acted upon by other agencies, when it undergoes real change under the influence of its environment, its passive potentiality is being so far forth actualized. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z His manner and bearing, some inner potentiality, were producing an agitation upon her that would have been impossible from the words only. In the Van; or, The Builders 2011-02-09T03:00:42.387Z I like potentiality in others, for there is none in myself. Here and Hereafter 2011-02-07T03:00:23.580Z Rain means everything—peace, plenty, prosperity, the potentiality of boundless wealth; the want of it losses and crosses, sin, suffering, and starvation. The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation 2011-02-06T03:01:00.547Z Our next question concerns the distribution of potentiality, when the embryo is developed further than the blastula stage. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z Moreover when the nature itself acts immanently, the term of such action remaining within the agent itself to actualize or perfect it, some passive potentiality of the agent is being actualized. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z Now I think that every man or almost every man is born with the potentiality at all events of this function of genius. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z You are very good, and you have a potentiality of being very bad. Here and Hereafter 2011-02-07T03:00:23.580Z These latter do undoubtedly possess undeveloped potentialities; they are capable of better things. The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn 2011-01-30T03:00:15.907Z Bound by his promise to Helen Denby, he could not tell the facts; and silenced by his host's words and manner, he could not discuss potentialities. The Road to Understanding 2011-01-29T03:00:20.840Z This passive potentiality, however, is itself nothing actual, it implies no actual perfection in the nature. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z He was full of new ideas, too, on politics and the social system and other unpractical topics, picturing endless potentialities of wealth and happiness for the labourer. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z If you had been very bad, with a potentiality of being very good, you would also have fascinated me. Here and Hereafter 2011-02-07T03:00:23.580Z We grant the abstract possibility that the bee or the ant may harbour in itself higher potentialities for development than even man himself. The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn 2011-01-30T03:00:15.907Z These people, educated, cultured, and intellectual, are not accidental and sporadic offshoots of the Haitian people; they are the Haitian people and they are a demonstration of its inherent potentialities. Self-Determining Haiti Four articles reprinted from The Nation embodying a report of an investigation made for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. 2011-01-22T03:00:17.567Z But we must distinguish carefully from this passive or receptive potentiality of a nature its active or operative powers—potentiae operativae. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z The sum fascinated Salvina, and for an instant her imagination played with its marvellous potentialities. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z They reveal hidden potentialities as well as express actual achievements. The Abiding Presence of the Holy Ghost in the Soul 2011-01-06T03:00:50.440Z Briefly the present situation may be summed up as follows: the dirigible has enormous potentialities for attack on fortified bases and the like, but its powers of defence, guns or no guns, are very slight. Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1913 2011-01-04T03:01:14.690Z Inasmuch that his power did not harmlessly glance from her, she felt that there must be great potentialities of evil within herself. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z The nature which is the potential subject, perfected by the operative power, is a substance, while the operative power which perfects the substance by actualizing this potentiality is an accident. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z Now you will ask what I mean by 'you,' because you yourself cannot possibly be aware of your good points, or, rather, your potentialities—everything in you is still in process of becoming. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z In that primitive social unit lie all the potentiality and promise of Human Society through untold future ages. Through Nature to God 2010-12-24T03:00:36.410Z The people who held it were aristocrats and landowners, and they converted the potentiality of Liberalism into the fact of Whiggery. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z He watched the movement of events as if they were mysterious music, and instead of their causes and potentialities he tried to divine their motif. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z This active power of an efficient cause or agent is to be carefully distinguished from the passive potentiality acted upon and undergoing change. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z You may charge me if you will with laying claim to knowledge after the event, but there radiated from every particle of him his own yet-folded potentialities. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z "We see a lot of synergy, we see a lot of potentiality with these assets." UPDATE 3-ENRC buys majority of Kolwezi, Congo assets 2010-08-20T18:44:00Z Moral courage can't just be a potentiality, it must be an actuality in all it's complexity for it to mean anything. 2010-01-19T13:11:00Z Understanding as he does the material potentialities of things, he is successful in invention, conservative in reform, and quick in emergencies. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z Habit is thus at once an actuality or actualization of the operative power and a potentiality of further and more perfect acts. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z India, with all its potentialities, was within her grasp. The Great Mogul The atmosphere was such that prominent scientists everywhere were ready to pounce immediately on any reported discovery of a new electrical “effect,” to explore its potentialities for instrumental purposes. The Earliest Electromagnetic Instruments The first stage is that of the hylic or material intellect, a state of mere potentiality, like that of a child for writing, before he has ever put pen to paper. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" "I never saw a type of mind like hers before—such a potentiality for doing things coupled with such dwarfed results." The Reclaimers Thus if we conceive existence as a perfection it is restricted by the finite nature of the potentiality which it actualizes. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z It would likewise have to be supposed that there were infinite other potentialities latent in the original plants, as of evolving thistles, shamrocks, or leeks—all equally awaiting their opportunity. The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer His chief concern in Cuba, as we have seen, was to promote her military defences; but he left La Fuerza incomplete, while the inestimable economic potentialities of the island were altogether neglected. The History of Cuba, vol. 1 Michael gave some of his theories of decoration, while Mrs. Cleghorne waited in critical audience; as it were, feeling the pulse of the apartments under the stimulus of Michael's sketch of their potentiality. Sinister Street, vol. 2 What is done with, what is just "there," is of concern only in the potentialities which it may indicate. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude But without this concursus not only can it not create; it cannot even, as an efficient cause, actuate a real pre-existing potentiality. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z The Women’s Christian Temperance Union, although hardly more than a juvenile among other great organizations, is second to few of them in its potentiality for good. The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 It was her heart, still loyal to the friendship which remained, struggling to find the right word which should start in motion the machinery to bring the latent potentiality into action. The Bachelors A Novel However that may be, it is clear that the last of us to survive will represent the highest possible development of human potentiality. The New Gulliver and Other Stories For the time being her life is liberated, new avenues of experience are actually opened to her, all sorts of unsatisfied desires are satisfied, all sorts of potentialities realized. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude Now if the real essence is really distinct from its existence it must be conceived as a real, subjective potentiality of existence. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z They were analysing her, speculating as to the potentialities of a new rival, stripping off her clothes too and her jewels. A Bed of Roses But however divergent might be opinions regarding this impossible alternative, there is no doubt that the public library, with enlarged functions and activities, has at least equal potentialities with the school. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses For these absolute terms he substitutes the relative terms potentiality and actuality, which shade off into each other. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy For he believed and gloried in the separate personalities of man and woman, claiming manhood and womanhood as the poet’s province, exulting in the potentialities of a healthy sexual life. The Vagabond in Literature Yet it cannot be conceived as a potentiality in anything actual: except indeed in the actually existing essence which is the composite result of its union with the existential act. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z We in this country are not as alive to the magnificent opportunity which is now afforded us as are our countrymen in Russia who know its people and its potentialities. Russian Life To-day The definite thing, that which comes forward in the process from potentiality to full actuality, can only appear and be spoken of under forms of individuality, quality, quantity and so on. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" For when we say that matter is the potentiality of what it is to become, this implies that what it is to become is already present in it ideally and potentially, though not actually. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy The potentialities, so to speak, of the printed poem, must be vocally realized. The Voice and Spiritual Education But they can actually exist as essential principles of other actual individuals: they are real potentialities, which become actual in other individuals. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z More and more the West-European nations, as also the United States and Japan, are realising these immense potentialities. American World Policies It is marked by the wholesomeness of Canadian life and Canadian ideals, and the optimism of a land of limitless potentialities. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" And this leads directly to a most important Aristotelian antithesis, that between potentiality and actuality. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy There was something delightfully exciting in the potentialities here opening out. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt Meanwhile, there was nothing to be gained by discounting potentialities, wherefore he laid himself out to make the most of the present time, and succeeded admirably well. The White Hand and the Black A Story of the Natal Rising And there was an inherent probability about the potentiality hinted at. 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War The prevailing view of the schools is that God implants the soul in the embryo while in the mother's womb, together with all the spiritual potentialities which make it human. Jewish Theology It is a mere potentiality, or capacity of becoming something. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy In other words, he implies that such a perception is possible, and confuses it with a potentiality, i. e. the power of perceiving that which is spatial. Kant's Theory of Knowledge Looking at him, or trying to look at him, seated in a chair, convinced me of his enormous potentialities. The Chameleon Man “I think I can get at that,” I said, having taken in the potentialities of hand and foothold. A Frontier Mystery The essence of the human soul is, for him, that force or potentiality which qualifies it for the highest development of the intellect, and is alone capable of grasping the divine. Jewish Theology Aristotle claims, by means of the antithesis of potentiality and actuality, to have solved the ancient problem of becoming, a riddle, propounded by the Eleatics, which had never ceased to trouble Greek thinkers. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy As for the potentiality of danger attaching to the situation Verna would have broken into one of her frank, winning laughs if anybody had suggested such a thing. Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion Now I say: ‘It is all within the potentialities of politics, and the potentialities of politics spell Uncertainty.’ Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion I had thought, I had hoped, that our metaphysics, that is, our religion, would act as a restraining force, as a counterweight so to speak to this potentiality.... The Brain Yet it can acquire a part in the creative World-spirit only in the same degree as it unfolds this potentiality to share the divine intellect, whose seat is the highest sphere of the universe. Jewish Theology All change, all motion, is thus the passage of potentiality into actuality, of matter into form. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Whereby it will be seen that the atmosphere around Ben Halse’s remote and primitive dwelling was, even at this early stage, charged with abundant potentialities. Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion Their weapon is knowledge, but the potentialities of that knowledge must be understood by a people before it can be effectively used to destroy them. A Gift For Terra Not until he had studied the problem and given Neil the answer did Mel realize the full financial potentiality of his powers. All In The Mind The whole man, both body and soul, has thus the potentiality of a higher and nobler life. Jewish Theology And this is utterly inconsistent with Aristotle's assertion that it is in itself nothing but a mere potentiality. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Assuredly the situation was charged with potentialities, but from such Alaric Denham, recognising, did not shrink. Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion To his reaching vision there were, perhaps, more potentialities than he could compass in words. Brood of the Dark Moon Once determined on the line of his endeavors, he briefly marvelled again on the still unexplored potentialities of his brain. All In The Mind Man and humanity are thus given the potentiality of infinite progress in every direction. Jewish Theology And the point is that the job is educating the people and freeing them to the point where they can develop their potentialities. Black Man's Burden The potentialities of the region are thus enormous. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" It should be possible to design a perfect robot, one that would realize all the potentialities of a mechanical personality. Tangle Hold He was always deferential to officers, never forgetting their potentialities as to future command. Command The best of his doings falls short of what he ought to do; in his highest efforts he realizes the potentiality of better things. Jewish Theology It is a curious fact, which many readers could verify, that frequently one lives one’s life under certain conditions, and in reality remains absolutely blind to their presence and potentialities. Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay a Renaissance (2nd edition) Any other defense would involve recognition of the weapon first, then an appraisal, then a countermove predicated on the potentialities of the weapon. Diplomatic Immunity Maybe, when there aren’t any humans to destroy, their real potentialities will begin to show.” Second Variety Prose has much more potentiality and is more acceptable to the masses. The Song of the Wolf Beneath the framework of feudalism and the Medi�val Church, a new society had been forming, far more complex than the old and full of potentialities which we are only now beginning to measure. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance He marveled at the suggestion of the breasts and the abdomen, that potentiality of motherhood that is so firing to the male. The "Genius" What had kept nature from exploiting its evolutionary potentialities? Student Body It gives a single man command over something complete; in its potentialities from softest to loudest in one and the same register it excels all other instruments. Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music Thus: "Grubs are things that have the potentiality of becoming butterflies"; "Z has the faculty of painting"; "Y has not the faculty of flying". Logic, Inductive and Deductive And purposefulness as a potentiality is thus carried back to the very foundation and “beginning,” to the fundamental conditions and primary factors of the cosmos itself. Naturalism And Religion Everybody else is a certain definite quantity, his horoscope is on file and every man on Mert has access to all his potentialities, be they good, bad or indifferent. Conquest Over Time The difficulty was to find the man with the money, and Mackenzie had given much thought during the Sabbath to the potentialities that lay behind Spencer’s whim. The Silent Barrier When it comes, that which was living assumes a state that has in it the potentiality of another form. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal The air-pump was invented shortly before the foundation of the Royal Society, and its members made many experiments with this new means of isolating an agent and thus discovering its potentialities. Logic, Inductive and Deductive They should be thought of as primitive forms having within themselves the potentialities of the most diverse and widely separate evolution-series to which they gave rise, as it were, along diverging fan-like rays. Naturalism And Religion New Yorkers never looked at each other, but they felt each other; the atoms of the great mass, though separated by never-closing spaces, were held together by an eternal potentiality. A Canadian Bankclerk A single organism realised all potentialities, fulfilled all functions. The Kempton-Wace Letters It was a sufficiently absurd situation, but it had all the potentialities of a violent one. The Deaves Affair The potentialities of the business game were amazing past anything Pop Yak had ever hinted, but the funny thing was he had to find it out step by step for himself. The Man Who Staked the Stars The biological is to him in “potentiality” what sensation, impulse, imagination are in “realisation.” Naturalism And Religion Without taking into account the limitless reserve of American aerial potentiality, it is clear that within a year the Allies will have at their disposal many thousands of war aeroplanes. Cavalry of the Clouds The British people now regarded Canada with lively interest, and for the first time the people of the Continent began to realize the potentialities of this new northern land. The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier A Chronicle of Our Own Time They do not love paint and caress it with a sensuous instinct for its exquisite potentialities. Ivory Apes and Peacocks You've beaten your head against the situation that confronted you, against a society you felt didn't allow you to develop your potentialities. Frigid Fracas Let us learn what are the true potentialities of life before we undertake to declare whether it is worth living or not. God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' A feeling of potentiality seemed to swell and throb within her veins. Mrs. Cliff's Yacht The other, which is the greater because it includes its companion, is this: Man has within himself all the potentialities of his own life. Communism and Christianism Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View Gradually, I was overcome by that sense of the infinitely romantic potentialities of life which I suppose overpowers all young people at times; and, more especially, rather lonely young people. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography I don't know," Mr. Dolph mildly defended his hobby; "there is a great potentiality of growth in this city. The Story of a New York House Not “the heir of all the ages,” I fear, though the potentiality in her must be infinite and beyond my ken. An Ocean Tramp The United, then, stands for education in the eternal truths of literary art, and for personal aid in the realisation of its members' literary potentialities. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Of course no phenomenon, such as Jesus hanging on the cross, if He lived and was crucified, was in the sun as an actuality, but only as a potentiality. Communism and Christianism Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View Australia, like Canada, has its call of the west and the north, with their appealing tale of untried potentialities. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography And, indeed, the comparison with water is more than superficial, for in a cup of water also there are wonderful potentialities, as every steam-engine attests. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science The merest suspicion that there had 221 been a man in the world who could have frustrated this beautiful potentiality in her had moved him profoundly. Outside Inn He may thus discover that which best fits his mind, and develop hitherto unsuspected potentialities. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The other form of the same truth as taught by Darwin and Marx is: man has all the potentialities of his own life within himself. Communism and Christianism Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View Not merely so, but the girl felt in herself potentialities not yet drawn upon, unlimited capabilities leading towards the accomplishment of good. Money Magic A Novel Considering its potentialities, the egg-cell, seemingly, is as much entitled to be considered an individual as is the developed organism. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science And, as has before happened when that irresistible potentiality, the people, has been stirred into action, the Church was disestablished, its property confiscated, and its meddling, parasitical clergy disenfranchised. Carmen Ariza How was it that women of small endowments could captivate men at sight, and that others of inexhaustible potentialities—she was not afraid to rank herself among them—went unrecognized and undesired? The Side Of The Angels A Novel Recent discoveries have only increased the wonder and potentiality of the cortex. Communism and Christianism Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View Every day added to the potentiality of this gray-eyed girl who stood so trustfully, so like a pupil, before him. Money Magic A Novel The fact that it does contain such potentialities is the most familiar of every-day biological observations, but not even a proximal explanation of the fact is as yet attainable. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science Jesus insisted that the kingdom of heaven 264 was within men, a tremendous potentiality within each one of us. Carmen Ariza But before everything else he was a hero and a savior, a being in whose vast potentialities, both social and financial, she could find refuge and lie down at last. The Side Of The Angels A Novel Laplace took the second step by showing that the cosmic nebulae contain within themselves all the potentialities necessary to the formation of solar systems. Communism and Christianism Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View The germ and potentiality of all that he has become or can become was sleeping there in his humble origins. Ways of Nature Their expectations are based upon the enormous potentialities that are demonstrably stored in even a tiny portion of, say, liquefied air. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science Yet it was a cloud of tremendous potentiality, enwrapping a spirit of energy incarnate. Carmen Ariza Potentially it contains all the categories, but the potentiality must be actualised. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology As to the Jewish faith he said, in effect, of himself what I say of myself: I have all of the potentialities of my own life within myself. Communism and Christianism Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View Blinky never knew what he had—never dreamed of the tremendous potentialities in his oscillating ethereal ray that had a range and penetration beyond anything known. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 But an enormous difference, not in principle but in practical applications, exists in the fact that the potentialities of the water cannot be utilized until relatively high temperatures are reached. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science The territory of a nation maintains its military potentiality towards territorial defense and an offensive potentiality, according to its geographical position, in the corresponding social cycle and in the social phase of the cycle.� The Mathematical-Historical Principles and the Evolution of Liberty At the same time it draws out the potentialities of the soul and fixes its development. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology The consistent socialist says: I have all the potentialities of my own life within myself. Communism and Christianism Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View Strange, sleeping potentialities lurked in the face; as at the turn of a kaleidoscope, Gregory could fancy it suddenly transformed, by some hostile touch, some menace, to a savage violence and rapacity. Tante But modern warfare is of so complex a nature that direct comparisons fail, and only a careful analysis of military experience determines the potentiality of a weapon and its influence on warfare. The Journal of Submarine Commander von Forstner The telephone had not rung for fifteen minutes but both men knew its potentialities and wanted to make the most of the silence. At the Crossroads That fact helps the mind to realize the potentialities of Canada. Westward with the Prince of Wales This differentiation is our potentiality for motherhood, and is the endowment of every woman, whether realised or not. The Truth About Woman The chambermaid, moreover, may have in her a potentiality of love and happiness which are worth many a masterpiece of French prose. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle Because of the potentiality of these hidden warships, thousands of vessels have traversed the ocean, freighted with countless tons of cargoes and millions of men for the Allies. The Journal of Submarine Commander von Forstner Such acknowledgments of the dramatic potentialities in prose fiction were, however, unusual. Clarissa: Preface, Hints of Prefaces, and Postscript That huge marshalling of the citizens of tomorrow gives one not merely a sense of Canada's potentiality, but of the potentiality of Quebec in the future of Canada. Westward with the Prince of Wales Any stigma attached to women is really a stigma attached to their potentiality as mothers, and we can only remove it by beginning with the emancipation of the actual mother. The Truth About Woman Oh God, the malevolence, the hate—the potentiality of awful, fearsome destructiveness that is its very essence! There is a Reaper ... That which is divisible in fact is divisible in potentiality also; but not all quantities which are divisible in potentiality are divisible in fact. Thoughts on Art and Life My idea is that we waste potentialities at present, not by squandering them, but by never using them. Changing Winds A Novel We were able to get from them a juster estimate of Canada, her prospects and her potentialities, than we could have obtained by our unaided observation. Westward with the Prince of Wales Would Friends in positions of leadership be willing to demonstrate their support for this project by participating in retreats at which they can examine with others the potentialities for growth of their own marriages? Marriage Enrichment Retreats Story of a Quaker Project Perhaps if they had known how he had tippled away his savings after his wife's death, they might have thought less well of humanity and its potentialities of perfection. Dreamers of the Ghetto Further, it had enormously quickened in him the sense of his mission in the world, of his duty to his colossal public, and his potentiality for good. A Great Man A Frolic What he wished to know was whether or not he had the potentialities of a great author in him. Changing Winds A Novel Its potentialities she had considered before she accepted it, but only because of her father. The Paliser case Vision of the land at large, of its potentialities, and its needs is almost of necessity excluded. Another Sheaf The better this work is done, the greater the potentialities of the vineyard. Manual of American Grape-Growing The history of the earth should therefore be taught in college courses as a succession of complex dynamic events, great in the past and great in future potentialities. College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College Barksted follows Painter's story quite closely, but he cuts, amplifies and invents in order to develop its minor epic potentialities. Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624) Look at those potentialities as so many cards in the same pack. They Twinkled Like Jewels He insists, equally strongly, that this process is such that no father can hand to his child any qualities which he himself did not have at least in potentiality at his birth. The Meaning of Evolution The vineyard, then, to fulfill commercial potentialities, should supply grapes throughout the whole season, and of the several colors and flavors and for all uses. Manual of American Grape-Growing He may not realize that the student before him, apparently indifferent to the most vital aspects of his subject, has potentialities for development in it. College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College Shall we rise to its full potentiality, both in a material and in a moral sense? The New York Stock Exchange and Public Opinion Remarks at Annual Dinner, Association of Stock Exchange Brokers, Held at the Astor Hotel, New York, January 24, 1917 For Russia, like France and Britain, still contemplated the situation and its potentialities through the distorting medium of the old order of things. England and Germany There are as many possibilities now as there were in either parent, but not all the potentialities of both parents. The Meaning of Evolution Answers to these questions furnish clews to the culture of this fruit and help in estimating the potentialities of a new region or of a location for grape-growing. Manual of American Grape-Growing And what is more, a man's speech, a man's writing, when properly interpreted, may sometimes measure the potentialities of the mind more thoroughly, more accurately, than the deeds which environment, opportunity, or luck permit. College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College The military and naval potentialities of the Island Kingdom when the war started were greater than ever before. The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 8) History of the European War from Official Sources It is still just so much geography and arithmetic and grammar study; not so much potentiality of child-experience with regard to language, earth, and numbered and measured reality. The Child and the Curriculum In any one of these Registers is a potentiality which can always worst the quibbles and quiddities of lawyers and ward off the miserable technicalities of the law. The Book of Khalid A few of the swarming incomers were skeptical of the find, but the larger number were hilariously boastful of their locations, and around their evening camp-fires groups gathered to exult over their potentialities. They of the High Trails In the glow of the shaded lamp she seemed a figure of marvelous potentiality. Jennie Gerhardt A Novel Thus the chief potentiality of sound, and the most common, lies in charming the ear. An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams If such an upheaval is possible for one nation, who shall put any bounds to the potentialities of the world? The Empire of the East Things had gone beyond the domain of law, and had fallen altogether into that of potentialities. The Life of Cicero Volume II. "He was a madman and a devil, but he had the potentialities of a god, Tommy," he said. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 It was the first time she had ever seen her personal potentialities. The Dust Flower Their minds were big with plans, nebulous and indefinite but charged with potentiality, which they should put into effect when they had selected their prairie home. The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West The Japanese financiers have, moreover, the advantage of an intimate knowledge of their own country and its potentialities. The Empire of the East Bristol "awakening" followed, and it is now realised that Bristol has fully awakened to her vast potentialities. The King's Post Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the ancient city of Bristol from 1580 to the present time It exists only in the psychic vacuum of antenatal life, or perhaps only in the potentiality of the germ plasm. Introduction to the Science of Sociology It is the potentiality that is the comfort. The Belovéd Vagabond But, again, it must also be conceived as actually everything and potentially nothing; for an unrealised potentiality is likewise a limitation. The Philosophy of the Conditioned My soul is cramped with big potentialities this afternoon. Turn About Eleanor "Do," urged Billy Louise, perfectly unconscious of the potentialities of the future. The Ranch at the Wolverine The queen-mother of the ant colony displays the generalized potentialities of all the individuals, just as the Metazoan egg contains in potentia all the other cells of the body. Introduction to the Science of Sociology A knowledge of maximum speed potentialities, one's own and those of the enemy, is required if changes in position are intelligently to be made. Sound Military Decision It is in the independence and originality of such striving that the soul discovers and frees its innate potentialities. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning The expression is a mere artifice of language, convenient for describing the phenomena: it is unnecessary to suppose that any thing has been in continuous existence except an abstract potentiality. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive A day is twenty-four hours if you take it by the card, but the spirit of joy or the spirit of sorrow has the power to multiply its potentialities amazingly. The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel Whenever the transition from potentiality to actuality occurs, there must be a cause. Jewish Literature and Other Essays While analogy looks backward to find applicable lessons, the search for novelty seeks suggestions from potentialities not heretofore utilized. Sound Military Decision Yet it can hardly be said that he violates poetic realism in the deeper sense, for he never puts a halo around a situation, never goes counter to its potentialities. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning Because of the nature of the deposits no large amount of ore is developed in advance of actual mining; but estimates based on past experience indicate great potentialities of this region for future production. The Economic Aspect of Geology It was a pleasant moment, fraught with potentialities. Juggernaut Now our intellect cannot make itself pass from potentiality to actuality. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy It also includes chemical agents and other instrumentalities, together with the types, potentialities as to range, and the number or amount of each available, both for immediate use and as replacements. Sound Military Decision He sums up in the speeches all the potentialities of the situation. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning And if it had the antecedent potency, its potentiality cannot cease when it becomes consequent—or when the machinery which is propelled by this motor force is worn out, or broken, and its use destroyed. Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 Volume 1, Number 11 I looked at some of his work, and I found in it potentialities of illimitable promise. Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation The Reason as the second hypostasis, being an activity, passes from potentiality to actuality, its indeterminateness being made determinate by the One or the Good. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy This procedure may also have a certain psychological advantage, in that the commander may thereby avoid becoming unduly impressed by the potentialities of enemy action. Sound Military Decision Clearly, the very fact that she loved the prodigal would give her a potentiality that way which she would have with no other prodigal. Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite Another factor tending to invest the converts with political potentialities was the writing of pamphlets by apostates, attributing the zeal of foreign propagandists solely to traitorous motives. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Women are in this sense immediately responsible for the war, because they have not been true to the limitless potentialities of their being. Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation This potentiality and indeterminateness is matter, but it is not to be confused with the other matter of the phenomenal world. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Sometimes the prior consideration of enemy potentialities has the advantage of making the commander's estimate more complete with respect to the obstacles which he is to overcome. Sound Military Decision The final cause of all potentiality is energy or actuality. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles It was now the time when Kamakura's mischievous potentialities had been finally destroyed, and to commemorate the event, entertainments in the shogun's honour were organized by the heads of the great military families. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era He discovered in her quite a new sort of beauty, in fact, which was perhaps only the reflection of surrounding things, unless it happened to bud forth from their hidden potentialities. Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man Hence the farther a thing is removed from potentiality the more perfect it is and the freer it is from defect. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Such potentialities of the enemy are of course among the vital factors to be considered in estimating the situation. Sound Military Decision Furthermore, matter and potentiality are convertible terms, therefore the primal Energy or Actuality must be immaterial. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles To be secure against such vicissitudes a throne must be based upon something superior to man's potentialities. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era "I was thinking what potentialities would lie between my first impressions of it and my last." The Sign of the Spider But the separate in which there is no kind of potentiality and which exists per se, is God. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy He had never realized its potentiality; lately he had ignored it with the contempt of supreme indifference. Mountain Blood A Novel The relation of actuality to potentiality is the subject of an extended and elaborate discussion in book viii., the general results of which may be summed up in the following propositions: 1. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles Yet this same Hideyoshi evidently recognized that the Buddhist faith had great potentialities in Japan, and that its encouragement made for the peace and progress of the country. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era It was clear that Judah both deserved and needed punishment and equally clear that the boiling North held the potentialities of this, which were gradually shaping and irresistibly approaching. Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 There is then potentiality in the creator, and there must be a cause which changed him from a potential to an actual creator. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Whence sprang, following the line of the trunk, the egg of the universe, pregnant with all potentialities. Appearances Being Notes of Travel This transition from potentiality to actuality must be through the medium of such principles as propension or free will, because propension or free will possess in themselves the power of originating motion in other things. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles The mysterious potentiality of the gold was known to the Rhine-god; three of his daughters had been instructed by him, and detailed to guard the treasure. The Wagnerian Romances I have a steady faith in our enormous potentialities for real progress. The Wonder The Active Intellect is thus pure form and actuality, and enables the material or possible intellect in man, originally a mere potentiality, to acquire general ideas, and thus to become an intellect with a content. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy It seems to contain in it the potentiality of all thoughts, and to stream in upon us from some Platonic "beyond-world" where the high secret archetypes of all created forms sleep in their primordial simplicity. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations All objects of thought exist, either purely in potentiality, or purely in actuality, or both in potentiality and in actuality. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles Her high spirituality has intuition no doubt of the vast potentialities of good in that superabundant life, which of itself seems a virtue as well as a charm. The Wagnerian Romances It was a revelation to me of the latent potentialities of the man, the remarkable depth and quality of his ambitions.... The Wonder God, who is actual, leads man from his potentiality to actuality. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy No doubt there was mixed with her spiritualism, or perhaps underlying it, a rich sensuousness that under other circumstances p. 189of life would have made itself manifest, and also a rare potentiality of deep passion. Old Familiar Faces Between these two extremes is the whole row of creatures, which out of potentiality evermore spring into actual being. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles Quite suddenly one day he had conceived the answer to the puzzling problem which obsessed his mind, leaving him awed with its wild, uncanny potentialities. The Jameson Satellite The supreme ambition of all great women—and have not all women the potentialities of greatness?—is to give birth to a god. The Wonder When a man's potentialities are thus realized, he becomes similar to God, because when ideas are actualized the agent and the thing acted upon are one. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy But everything which has a varied content has a potentiality of form and also of meaning. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory Societies of men are just like individuals, in that both at any given moment offer ambiguous potentialities of development. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy Of itself it has no active properties, but in its still, well-like depths, it holds the potentiality of all magnetic forces. Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance But of itself it has no activity, although in its still, well-like, and calm depths it holds the potentiality of all magnetic forces. How to Read the Crystal or, Crystal and Seer The form appears upon the common matter and "specifies" it, and makes it what it is, bringing it from potentiality to actuality. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy The highest aesthetic good is not that vague potentiality, nor that contradictory, infinite perfection so strongly desired; it is the greatest number and variety of finite perfections. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory Thus, a scene hung precariously; but its potentialities became as nothing on the appearance of another woman. The Place of Honeymoons It had never dawned on her that she possessed rare potentialities of beauty, that there was coming a time when she would bloom gloriously as a cactus in a sand waste. The Fighting Edge Weismann's theory is clear, simple and convenient, but incomplete; for, unlike Darwin's theory of pangenesis, it scarcely attempts any real explanation of the extremely complex potentialities possessed by the reproductive elements. Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin We have now concluded our theory of God and his attributes; and in doing so we made use of principles of physics, such as matter and form, potentiality and actuality, motion and infinity. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy His speculation is that all these properties are nascent and latent in the material atoms themselves, that these have the potentiality of life and choice and consciousness, which we perceive in their developed combinations. Life and Matter A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's 'Riddle of the Universe' The potentialities for trouble were not, however, lessened. The Huntress It never had existed, as far as he could see, except on paper, and there it remained, a mere potentiality. The Loyalist A Story of the American Revolution We should have to do so, indeed, if life had employed all the psychical potentialities it possesses in producing pure understandings—that is to say, in making geometricians. Creative Evolution The same thing applies to the ideas of potentiality and actuality. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Even the dormant potentialities may be wakened, and the plant makes a wide departure from its native state. The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 It is more stable, and more likely to realise its potentialities. A Poor Man's House Keen eyes accustomed to study potentialities of nations discerned in the gathering a new portentous fact. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914 It is as if a broad current of consciousness had penetrated matter, loaded, as all consciousness is, with an enormous multiplicity of interwoven potentialities. Creative Evolution We should not know what they signify without a study of physics, nor should we understand that potentiality is a defect and hence not to be found in God. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy There is only one face of the Denali group that is completely satisfying, that is adequate to the full picturesque potentiality of a twenty-thousand-foot elevation. The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America In this age and country there are great potentialities to every young lady of a good mind and a pure heart. Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel and Selections from his Writings Otherwise, he took no notice of the potentialities created by his return. All the Brothers Were Valiant Once freed, moreover, it can turn inwards on itself, and awaken the potentialities of intuition which still slumber within it. Creative Evolution The fourth proof is very much like the first, but is based upon the ideas of potentiality and actuality instead of motion. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy The coming of the steamboat always held the potentialities of a dramatic surprise, for they had no telegraph to warn them of whom or what she was bringing. The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] In my opinion, these have potentialities of commercial value in the north. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946 Good women held all the cards, but there was no reason why they shouldn't be attractive; it was their failure to grasp this potentiality, which gave bad women their temporary sway. The Dark Tower It lights up the zone of potentialities that surrounds the act. Creative Evolution But when we consider that Aristotle defines motion in terms of potentiality and actuality, the fourth proof is identical with the first. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Such a thing as Galileo made may now be bought at a toy-shop for I suppose half a crown, and yet what a potentiality lay in that "glazed optic tube," as Milton called it. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 In view of the vast potentialities for their use, investigational programs may soon be under way and much more definite information be made available to the farmer and landowner. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946 He began to perceive clearly for the first time the prodigious potentiality of this man who was equally masterful in Philadelphia and the back woods. The Rapids As indicated in the following pages, we are not neglecting the nut-bearing potentialities of the chestnut tree. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953 This potentiality was due either to an obstacle in the agent himself or to the absence of a certain relation between the agent and its effect. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy It is the conception of Life as the sum-total of all its undistributed powers, being as yet none of these in particular, but all of them in potentiality. The Hidden Power And Other Papers upon Mental Science It is this element of the unknown that gives the Congo field one of its principal potentialities. An African Adventure Neglect of this fact may lead us to limit unduly the potentialities contained in the rite of sacrifice, from the beginning. The Idea of God in Early Religions We must know what history, geography, and mathematics mean in psychological terms, that is, as modes of personal experiencing, before we can get out of them their moral potentialities. Moral Principles in Education The last separate Intelligence is the Active Intellect, which is the cause of our mind's passing from potentiality to actuality, and of the various processes of sublunar life generally. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy This word of God is the breath of God filling the world with living potentiality. The Pursuit of God It is not generally realized that Africa today produces the three most valuable of all known minerals in the largest quantities, or has the biggest potentialities. An African Adventure And instead of seeking to deny either, in the interests of a pre-conceived theory, we must recognise both potentialities, in the interest of truth. The Idea of God in Early Religions The thought that the United States, with its almost illimitable resources of men, of money, and of potentialities, was joining hands with us, made everything possible. "The Pomp of Yesterday" Infinity is possible only as a potentiality, for example, we may speak of a given length as infinitely divisible. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Matter or material is indispensable to being as its potentiality or that out of which it is constituted. The Approach to Philosophy He impersonated potentiality to do as well as undo. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography Now I realize how I underestimated the potentialities of my nursing effect, of the difference I made, and could make. Humanistic Nursing Has not the imagination the potentiality at least of performing any miracle, however marvelous, however incredible, according to our ordinary standards? The House of Souls If anything passes from potentiality to actuality, the agent that caused this must be outside the thing. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Reality is the development with all of its ascending stages from the maximum of potentiality, or matter, to the maximum of actuality, or God the pure form. The Approach to Philosophy But with an instinct that pointed right, they took Adam as a type of the unspoiled man, and they saw writ large in him the possibilities and potentialities of man. Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries In our own time the German submarine came within an ace of winning the war despite all the Allied dreadnoughts, because its potentialities had not been realized and no counter measures devised. A History of Sea Power When they are born they possess nothing but potentialities; they have to do everything in a world which, as even adults admit, is full of difficulties. Spontaneous Activity in Education For the material intellect as it really is in itself when not in combination with the human body is not a mere receptacle or empty potentiality. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy |
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