Captain Beatty, Montag's fire chief, personally visits him and tells him the story of how books lost their value and where the firemen fit in: Over the course of several decades ( with the starting point being after the American Civil War ), populations grew and people embraced new media, sports, and a quickening pace of life.

The term stems from the Greek ψύχωσις ( psychosis ), " a giving soul or life to, animating, quickening " and that from ψυχή ( psyche ), " soul " and the suffix-ωσις (- osis ), in this case " abnormal condition ".

English folk practice before and after that time held that fetal life was not present until quickening.

Martha said to me, very quietly: " There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique.

The end of the Cold War and the quickening pace of globalization turned the future of area studies into the number one issue for Council management in the concluding years of the 20th century.

The speech of the Sussex characters is a parody of rural dialects ( in particular Sussex and West Country accents — another parody of novelists who use phonics to portray various accents and dialects ) and is sprinkled with fake but authentic-sounding local vocabulary such as mollocking ( Seth's favourite activity, undefined but invariably resulting in the pregnancy of a local maid ), sukebind ( a weed whose flowering in the Spring symbolises the quickening of sexual urges in man and beast ; the word is presumably formed by analogy to ' woodbine ' ( honeysuckle ) and bindweed ) and clettering ( an impractical method used by Adam for washing dishes, which involves scraping them with a dry twig or clettering stick ).

In the other hemisphere it is growing colder and nymphs, those who stayed alive through the summer, are being brought into nests for quickening and more growing ''.

Thus, from the human body, the usual form assigned to the Deity, forasmuch as it is written that God created man in his own image, issue the two supporters, Nous and Logos, symbols of the inner sense and the quickening understanding, as typified by the serpents, for the same reason that had induced the old Greeks to assign this reptile for an attribute to Pallas.

Christians who agree with these views may refer to this idea as abortion before the quickening of the fetus.

His quickening spirit animated the educational movement centered on Seville.

Finally, the complexification of human cultures, particularly language, facilitated a quickening of evolution in which cultural evolution occurs more rapidly than biological evolution.

Some theologians argued that only after proof of the " quickening " ( when the mother can feel the fetus's movement in her womb, usually about 20 weeks into gestation ) that there was incontrovertible evidence that ensoulment had already occurred.

Until Sixtus V, Canon Lawyers had applied the code from Gratian whereby excommunications were only given to abortions after the quickening.

An abortive anti-Republic coup in Bandung and Jakarta by Westerling's Legion of Ratu Adil ( APRA ) on 23 January 1950 resulted in the dissolution of the populous Pasundan state in West Java, thus quickening the dissolution of the federal structure.

In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville argues that the abolition of the laws of primogeniture and entail in the law of inheritance of private property ( as opposed to inheritance of a monarchy ) result in the more rapid division of land and thus force landed people to seek wealth outside the family estate in order to maintain their previous standard of living, accelerating the death of the landed aristocracy and also quickening the shift to democracy.

He hailed the new movement as an important augury of the quickening influences of modern views.

The privatization agency earned praise abroad in 1999 for quickening the pace of sell-offs in a country where 80 % of the economy was still in state hands.

* quickening the Blood and dispelling stasis or blood-quickening or Blood-moving.

The entire sequence has nine steps: ( 1 ) progressively quickening hooting, ( 2 ) symbolic feeding, ( 3 ) rising bipedally, ( 4 ) throwing vegetation, ( 5 ) chest-beating with cupped hands, ( 6 ) one leg kick, ( 7 ) sideways running, two-legged to four-legged, ( 8 ) slapping and tearing vegetation, and ( 9 ) thumping the ground with palms to end display.

As a matter of common law in England and the United States, abortion was illegal anytime after quickening – when the movements of the fetus could first be felt by the woman.

Assuming that the natural median prey would be a small rodent such as a mouse, the bite would elicit a fear response quickening heart rate and increasing blood pressure.

( In Catholic tradition, which is very significant to this issue in the West, the belief that pregnancy actually begins at the quickening, around the fourth month, was adhered to up to the time of Pius IX.

The decline continued, quickening after the Second World War ; in 1960 the War Office stopped offering premiums on stallions, and many breeders discontinued breeding.

When three generations of a ship's owners die on board, a liveship " quickens ", meaning that the ship awakens and becomes a sentient being with all the memories of the ancestors who have contributed to the ship's quickening.

In Methodism, the means of grace are ways in which God works invisibly in disciples, quickening, strengthening and confirming faith.

Built during the Great Depression, they were the first railroad equipment ever designed in a wind tunnel in order to lessen power consumption while quickening schedule timings.

The letters which came to me at Andover until his death bore the marks of the same rare and quickening friendship.

They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Thus the transformation of Adam Smith's ideal entrepreneur into a mythological detective coincides closely with the decline of the real entrepreneur in economic life.

The accomplishment of the many tasks I have alluded to requires the continuous strengthening of the spiritual, intellectual, and economic sinews of American life.

Pope Pius 12, declared in 1951 that it is possible to be exempt from the normal obligation of parenthood for a long time and even for the whole duration of married life, if there are serious reasons, such as those often mentioned in the so-called medical, eugenic, economic and social `` indications ''.

It is not making them sensitive to the sub-Christian level of much of our economic and industrial life.

The vulnerability of Protestantism to social differences stems from the peculiar role of the new religious style in middle-class life, where the congregation is a vehicle of social and economic group identity and must conform, therefore, to the principle of economic integration.

The rule of economic integration in congregational life can be seen in the missionary outreach of the major denominations.

If economic integration really shapes congregational life, then evangelism should be a process of extending economic integration.

The inner life of congregations will prosper so long as like-minded people of similar social and economic level can fraternize together ; ;

the outer life of congregations -- the suitability of the environment to their survival -- will be propitious so long as the people in the area are of the same social and economic level as the membership.

Since American life is committed above all to productivity and a higher standard of economic life, the countervailing forces of residential and religious exclusiveness have fought a desperate, rearguard action against the expanding interdependence of the metropolis.

To what extent did it mould the morals and the social, economic, and political life and institutions of the country??

Today a cosmopolitan metropolis, modern Athens is central to economic, financial, industrial, political and cultural life in Greece.

They made a virtue of qualities that made for economic success: self-reliance, frugality, industry, and energy, and through them influenced modern social and economic life.

According to the Center for Economic and Policy Research ( CEPR ), the period from 1980 – 2005 has seen diminished progress in terms of economic growth, life expectancy, infant and child mortality, and to a lesser extent education.

This parallels the ways in which capitalism led to the commodification of many aspects of social life that hitherto had no monetary or economic value per se.

These anthropologists continue to concern themselves with the distinct ways people in different locales experience and understand their lives, but they often argue that one cannot understand these particular ways of life solely from a local perspective ; they instead combine a focus on the local with an effort to grasp larger political, economic, and cultural frameworks that impact local lived realities.

At its peak, roughly corresponding to the Middle Ages, it was the richest and largest European city, exerting a powerful cultural pull and dominating economic life in the Mediterranean.

But, as America grew, industry became a larger and larger part of American life ; and, during the term of America's first populist president, Andrew Jackson, economic questions came to the forefront.

" Active citizenship " is the philosophy that citizens should work towards the betterment of their community through economic participation, public, volunteer work, and other such efforts to improve life for all citizens.

From the beginning of Communist rule in 1949, until the 1980s, when China was in the early years of economic reform, the focus was largely on peasant life, as interpreted via the officially sanctioned Marxist theory of class struggle.