Because his vision of personal and social perfections was framed as a revival of the ordered society of earlier times, Confucius is often considered a great proponent of conservatism, but a closer look at what he proposes often shows that he used ( and perhaps twisted ) past institutions and rites to push a new political agenda of his own: a revival of a unified royal state, whose rulers would succeed to power on the basis of their moral merits instead of lineage. These would be rulers devoted to their people, striving for personal and social perfection, and such a ruler would spread his own virtues to the people instead of imposing proper behavior with laws and rules.

Glock was well known as a proponent of avant garde music ; earlier in his career he had been dismissed as music critic of The Observer for such views as " no great composer has ever cared how ' pleasant ' his music sounds ".

David MacRitchie was a prominent proponent of the euhemeristic origin of fairies, a theory tracable to the early 19th century that considers fairies in British folklore to have been rooted in a historical pygmy, dwarf or short sized aboriginal race, that lived during Neolithic Britain or even earlier.

A notable proponent of the theory who had read MacRitchie's earlier works published in the Celtic Review was Grant Allen, who became convinced that fairies were modeled on an indigenous population of Britain, specifically the Neolithic long barrow makers.

" A few months earlier, Jesuit Father Rutilio Grande, a proponent of liberation theology, had been assassinated in El Salvador.

One of the earlier uses of the concept of “ black ” as a metaphor for race was first used at the end of the 17th century when a French doctor named François Bernier ( 1625 – 1688 ), an early proponent of scientific racism, divided up humanity based on facial appearance and body type.

It is a matter of trying to sort out an earlier fourth-century Saxon element from the later, fifth-century mainstream of Anglo-Saxon invasions.

As was noted earlier, it is important that in valid, objective study of this sort of communication, the interested sitter should be separated from the sensitive.

However, this sort of attack, in milder form, had presumably occurred many years earlier.

Theodorus, the old geometer, tells Socrates that he finds this sort of thing easier to follow than his earlier arguments.

One feature of Self is that it is based on the same sort of virtual machine system that earlier Smalltalk systems used.

Pekah must have seen the handwriting on the wall in 733 or earlier, and any feeling for Realpolitik would dictate that it was time for the two rivals to put aside their differences under some sort of accommodation.

Manipulated by Lindsey McDonald into " helping the helpless ", Spike becomes a sort of rival to Angel ; resembling the heroic Champion Angel was in earlier seasons before becoming disillusioned and corrupted by the bureaucracy of Wolfram & Hart.

A decision was made that all of the shadowy layer of animal glue and " lamp black ", all of the wax, and all of the overpainted areas were contamination of one sort or another: smoke deposits, earlier restoration attempts, and painted definition by later restorers in an attempt to enliven the appearance of the work.

For dates / times ascending means that earlier values precede later ones e. g. 1 / 1 / 2000 will sort ahead of 1 / 1 / 2001.

Like many other sort efficient algorithms ( like quick sort or merge sort ), combsort is more effective in its earlier passes than it is during the final passes, when it resembles a bubble sort.

Effects supervisor William George wanted to make it distinct from the earlier ships, since it was one of the few models that could be altered: " We did some research into military costuming, and came up with the concept that when these ships return victorious from battle, the Klingons build some sort of epaulet onto their wings or paint a new stripe on.

An earlier amendment to the act, the D ’ Amato Amendment, prohibited the US from selling arms or extending any sort of financial assistance to Iraq unless the President could prove Iraq was in “ substantial compliance ” with the provisions of a number of human rights conventions, including the Genocide Convention.

* The Anchorages and Chasms, noble families from Waugh's earlier novel Vile Bodies, are mentioned as the sort of people Rex would have liked at his wedding to Julia.

Near the end of each episode, there was usually a sketch of some sort, followed by each of the guests doing a brief monologue on a particular topic that was discussed earlier in the episode.

During a serious illness in 1871, the Queen dictated her journal entries to Beatrice, and in 1876 she allowed Beatrice to sort the music that she and the Prince Consort had played, unused since his death fifteen years earlier.

Investors blasted the CBOI in October 2011 after losing tens of million of Euro in what a High Court Judge described as " a sort of an Irish ponzi scheme " saying regulators should have spotted the problems earlier.

Sansone has elaborated on the many parallels between the Mendès, Ferrier, and Pessard versions of the Tabarin story with Pagliacci, noting that Leoncavallo deliberately minimised any sort of connection between his opera and those earlier French works.

In 1983, Dante publicly distanced his work from earlier films, explaining, " Our gremlins are somewhat different — they're sort of green and they have big mouths and they smile a lot and they do incredibly, really nasty things to people and enjoy it all the while ".

The writing was apparently Panizzardi's, and in order to compare it Henry produced an earlier letter, supposed to have been taken from the waste of the secret dossier, written with the same pencil, on the same sort of paper ruled in squares, and containing the same signature.

Mrs. Wade ends up in a sort of trance and attempts to seduce Marlowe, thinking he's a former lover of hers who died ten years earlier in World War II.

The existing Japanese language has its origins at approximately this point in time, if not earlier ( to the extent that Japanese derives primarily from either the language of the Bronze Age Yayoi people, as it existed prior to their arrival in Japan, or derives primarily from a language of the Jōmon at that point of time, rather than being a creole of some sort ).

Heidenstam wrote four other works of fiction about earlier figures revered in Swedish memory.

The term " cyberspace " was first used by the cyberpunk science fiction author William Gibson, though the concept was described somewhat earlier, for example in the Vernor Vinge short story " True Names ," and even earlier in John M. Ford's novel, Web of Angels.

In 1981 ELO's sound changed again with the science fiction concept album Time, a throwback to earlier, more progressive rock albums like Eldorado.

Some of these blended science fiction films with Gothic horror, such as The Invisible Man ( 1933 ) and, mirroring the earlier German films, featured a mad scientist.

Alien ( 1979 ) combined the naturalistic acting and graphic violence of the 1970s with the monster movie plots of earlier decades, and used science fiction.

Lovecraft's later correspondence is primarily to fellow weird fiction writers, rather than to the amateur journalist friends of his earlier years.

Unlike earlier works of interactive fiction which only understood commands of the form ' verb noun ', Infocom's parser could understand a wider variety of sentences.

Crawford Gribben has shown that there were successful rapture fiction novels as early as 1913, with some earlier works identified as dating from 1905.

The later biographies and the biographies of subordinate emperors and usurpers are a tissue of lies and fiction, but the earlier biographies, derived primarily from now-lost earlier sources ( Marius Maximus or Ignotus ), are much better.

The story is deliberately written as an elegiac farewell to the old conception of Mars, complete with canals and an ancient, dying Martian race, as " The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth " ( 1965 ) was his farewell to the Venus of earlier science fiction.

* Ghosts of Mars ( 2001 ) – Director John Carpenter uses the planet as a science fiction setting for a remake of his earlier Assault on Precinct 13.

Most earlier works with styles similar to Tolkien's, such as the science fiction of H. G.

Equally influential, if not more so, however, have been earlier pieces of political fiction such as Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ), Candide ( 1759 ) and Uncle Tom's Cabin ( 1852 ).

* Steampunk is based on the idea of futuristic technology existing in the past, usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England — but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date.

Merril later popularized this fiction in the United States through her edited anthology England Swings SF: Stories of Speculative Fiction ( Doubleday 1968 ), although an earlier anthology ( Harlan Ellison's Dangerous Visions 1967 ) has also come to be referred to as a key work of New Wave science fiction.

In his The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, Keene claims Murasaki wrote the " supreme work of Japanese fiction " by drawing on traditions of court diaries, and earlier monogatari — written in a mixture of Chinese script and Japanese script — such as The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter or The Tales of Ise.

This book is notable among the Heinlein juveniles in being the first to be set outside the solar system, but more significantly for its attempt to fold in, in a subtle way, the political commentary and social speculation that had suffused his earlier pulp fiction.

Requiem is a short story by Robert A. Heinlein, serving as a sequel to his short science fiction novel, The Man Who Sold the Moon, although it was in fact published several years earlier than that story, in Astounding, January 1940.

Because most of his fiction concerning Middle-earth deals with earlier ages, there is relatively little material on the ages that followed the Third Age.

According to Shammai Feldman, Zelophehad and his daughters are a fiction created simply to illustrate some of the legal rules of inheritance ; Jewish textual scholars regard the accounts concerning Zelophehad's daughters as accretions added to the earlier priestly source narrative by writers from the same pro-Aaronid religio-political group.

Flash Gordon was the first outright science fiction serial, although earlier serials had contained science fiction elements such as gadgets.