Diametrically opposed to Mencius, in regards to human nature ( 性 ), was the interpretation of Xunzi ( c. 300 – 237 BC ), another Confucian follower.

Diametrically opposed to the aristocratic view would be the theory of culture industry developed by Frankfurt School critical theorists such as Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse.

To the inhabitants of Azuero, their region was symbolic of the power of the people, while Veraguas represented an old, oppressive order.

Veraguas has many groups of inhabitants, mainly of Spanish-Indian origin named campesinos.

Upon intelligence that the formidable agitator was to favor them with his presence, the benighted inhabitants of Pawtuxet, alas, gave their allegiance to Massachusetts and asked that colony to expel the newcomers.

These are the centuries in which the inhabitants of the Aegean world settled firmly into their minds and into their institutions the foundations of the Hellenic outlook, independent of outside forces.

The inhabitants passively endure their increasing feelings of exile and separation ; despondent, they waste away emotionally as well as physically.

Many scholars see the persistence of Germanic Arianism as a strategy that was followed in order to differentiate the Germanic elite from the local inhabitants and their culture and also to maintain the Germanic elite's separate group identity.

Pytheas says that the Gutones, a people of Germany, inhabit the shores of an estuary of the Ocean called Mentonomon, their territory extending a distance of six thousand stadia ; that, at one day's sail from this territory, is the Isle of Abalus, upon the shores of which, amber is thrown up by the waves in spring, it being an excretion of the sea in a concrete form ; as, also, that the inhabitants use this amber by way of fuel, and sell it to their neighbors, the Teutones.

Then he penetrated into the Peloponnesus and captured its most famous cities — Corinth, Argos, and Sparta — selling many of their inhabitants into slavery.

As the Eudoses are the Jutes, these names probably refer to localities in Jutland or on the Baltic coast, in which case their inhabitants would be Cimbri or Teutones for Pliny.

For according to them, there were seven islands in that sea in their time, sacred to Persephone, and also three others of enormous size, one of which was sacred to Hades, another to Ammon, and another one between them to Poseidon, the extent of which was a thousand stadia ; and the inhabitants of it — they add — preserved the remembrance from their ancestors of the immeasurably large island of Atlantis which had really existed there and which for many ages had reigned over all islands in the Atlantic sea and which itself had like-wise been sacred to Poseidon.

While the Ottomans held their own in the conflict they ultimately lost with Ochakov falling in 1788 to the Russians ( all of its inhabitants being massacred.

Stoutly Catholic, the inhabitants have retained some of their past as can be still seen in their own particular style of costume.

He assaulted Lahore and, after taking their holy city of Amritsar, massacred thousands of Sikh inhabitants, destroying their revered Golden Temple.

A sighted man finds himself in a country that has been isolated from the rest of the world for centuries, wherein all the inhabitants are blind even as their ancestors had been.

However, a vague undertaking was given to consult their inhabitants, and although successive South African governments sought to have the territories transferred, Britain kept delaying, and it never occurred.

The previous inhabitants of the area were Celtic-speaking Gauls, as evidenced by the two Latinised Celtic names for their chief town: Batavodurum and Noviomagus ( Nijmegen, Neth ).

" To quell any uprising among the native inhabitants, Egyptians overheard discussing the battle were threatened with having their tongues cut out.

In Yunnan, China, inhabitants would flee from their homes as soon as they saw dead rats, and on the island of Formosa ( Taiwan ), residents considered the handling of dead rats heightened the risks of developing plague.

It instructed Nigeria to transfer possession of the peninsula, but did not require the inhabitants to move or to change their nationality.

With the escalation of fighting in the Mexican Revolution, the regular resupply visits ceased, and the island's inhabitants were left to their own devices.

Most of the inhabitants were descendants of the original Puritan colonists, but there was also a small elite of Anglican " worthies " who were not involved in village life, who made their livings from estates, investments, and trade, and lived in mansions along " the Road to Watertown " ( today's Brattle Street, still known as Tory Row ).

She and her surviving siblings — Branwell, Emily, and Anne – created their own literary fictional worlds, and began chronicling the lives and struggles of the inhabitants of these imaginary kingdoms.

In the historical period, the Achaeans were the inhabitants of the region of Achaea, a region in the north central part of the Peloponnese.

However, by the Archaic and Classical periods, the term ' Achaeans ' referred to inhabitants of the much smaller region of Achaea.

The cuisine of the American South has been influenced by the many diverse inhabitants of the region, including Americans of European descent, Native Americans and African Americans.

The Antarctic region had no indigenous population when first discovered, and its present inhabitants comprise a few thousand transient scientific and other personnel working on tours of duty at the several dozen research stations maintained by various countries.

It is in fact likely that, after the region took on the name of its early inhabitants, later settlers were also known by the accepted geographical name.

In Czech, the region since the early Middle Ages has been called only Čechy (" Czech ") or Království české (" Czech Kingdom "), and its mainly Czech-speaking inhabitants were called Čechové ( in modern Czech Češi ).

Some genetic studies seem to prove a Celtic descendence of most inhabitants in the region, but not Germanic in fact, that is reinforced by the Gaulish toponyms such as those ending with the suffix-ago < Celtic -* ako ( n ) ( f. e.

The first inhabitants of the region that is now Equatorial Guinea are believed to have been Pygmies, of whom only isolated pockets remain in northern Río Muni.

The Teutonic Knights conquered the region and the inhabitants dispersed in the process.

Greece also objects to the use of the terms " Macedonian " to denote ethnic Macedonians and the Macedonian language, as these terms have a different meaning in Greece ( inhabitants of the Greek region of Macedonia and the Macedonian dialect of Greek ).

Other scholars of the Hebrides and inhabitants of the region do not consider this a myth, as there are sufficient records in both the oral tradition and the written compilation of those records that predate both Pennant and Anton by a century or more that preserve the history of this tradition.

North Africa served as a transit region for people moving towards Europe or the Middle East, thus, the region's inhabitants have been influenced by populations from other areas.

The region adopted Christianity in 988 by the official act of public baptism of Kiev inhabitants by Prince Vladimir I.

Also as a military precaution, the government has cleared a broad strip of territory in the Kurdish region along the Iranian border of all its inhabitants, hoping in this way to interdict the movement of Kurdish guerrillas back and forth between Iran and Iraq.

During these eighty years the number of municipalities with more than 5, 000 inhabitants increased from only 21 to more than one hundred, concentrating nearly half of the Walloon population in this region.

This created a merchant class and brought wealth to the inhabitants of the region.

Some of the earliest human inhabitants of the Lake Michigan region were the Hopewell Indians.

The overall population density in the region is 332 inhabitants per km < sup > 2 </ sup >.

Among many other observations about flora, fauna, and native inhabitants related in his lengthy book, Bonaventure claimed to have seen enormous footprints in the region.

Mexican food varies by region because of Mexico's large size, local climate and geography, ethnic differences among the indigenous inhabitants and because these different populations were influenced by the Spaniards in varying degrees.

The historian Andreas Kossert describes that the incorporation happened despite protests of the local populace, the municipal authorities and the German Government, According to Kossert 6, 000 inhabitants of the region soon left the area.

Because they were so small, however, they had no separate language or culture: the inhabitants shared the language of the surrounding region.

A tree located in Santu Baltolu di Carana ( municipality of Luras ) in Sardinia, Italy, named with respect as the Ozzastru by the inhabitants of the region, is claimed to be 3, 000 to 4, 000 years old according to different studies.

The first known inhabitants of the modern-day Pakistan region are believed to have been the Soanian ( Homo erectus ), who settled in the Soan Valley and Riwat 1. 9 million years ago.