Most notably, Carnegie believed that the future leaders of society would rise from the ranks the poor.

However, until the Revolution, many considered whiskey to be a coarse alcohol unfit for human consumption, as many believed that it caused the poor to become raucous and unkempt drunkards.

This led to disappointment in Britain, as many believed that Florida was a poor return for Cuba and Britain's other gains in the war.

In any case, Flynn and Blake were perceived to be poor hitters ; thus, the crowd believed that Casey had little chance for a potential game-winning at bat.

Adopting Thomas Malthus's population theory, they saw poor urban conditions as inevitable, as they believed population growth would outstrip food production ; and they considered that to be desirable, as starvation would help limit population growth.

The NBA's Minneapolis Lakers had re-located to Los Angeles in 1960 due to poor attendance which was believed to have been caused in part by the reluctance of fans in St. Paul to support the team.

Martha had contracted tuberculosis, which Daniel believed to be the cause of their infant daughter's poor health.

Calhoun believed that the spread of slavery into the back country of his own state improved public morals by ridding the countryside of the shiftless poor whites who had once held the region back.

According to Kelly Patricia O ' Meara, St. Elizabeths is believed to have treated over 125, 000 patients, though an exact number is not known due to poor recordkeeping.

It is believed YTT was moved because of poor ratings on Sunday night resulting in the much more popular Biggest Loser taking the 6: 30 to 7: 30 timeslot.

They spared a few homes " because Turner believed the poor white inhabitants ' thought no better of themselves than they did of negros.

He decides that the way to regenerate the Church of England is to live among the poor, but the results are, first, that his faith in the integrity of the Bible is severely damaged by a conversation with one of the poor he was hoping to redeem, and, second, that under the pressures of poverty and theological doubt, he attempts a sexual assault on a woman he had incorrectly believed to be of loose morals.

The effort to kidnap von Drenkmann was believed to be retaliation for the poor treatment of Meins during his time in prison.

The Countess believed he had been in a relationship with Mary, a charge which has never been proved or disproved, but seems unlikely given Shrewsbury's disposition and increasingly poor health.

The New York Times published an enthusiastic review in 1863 noting that the author brought the " old Christmas … of bygone centuries and remote manor houses, into the living rooms of the poor of today " while the North American Review believed Dickens ’ s " fellow feeling with the race is his genius "; and John Greenleaf Whittier thought the book charming, " inwardly and outwardly ".

They believed that Mann, who was the Keeper of the Tower's Armouries at the Tower of London, was a poor choice and that Mortimer Wheeler, being an actual prehistorian, should have won the election.

Some early episodes are also believed to be damaged or in poor quality, whereas much of the output of other broadcasters – such as many early episodes of The Avengers ( shot in the electronic studio rather than on film ) produced by Associated British Corporation – have been destroyed.

Graves's value as a poet aside, flaws in his scholarship such as poor philology, misdating texts ( for example, the Hanes Taliesin a 16th-18th century text which Graves believed originated centuries earlier ), and use of out-dated archeology have been criticised.

Opposition to the nomination came from the Organic Consumers Association, which outlined in a November 2008 report several reasons why it believed Vilsack would be a poor choice for the position, particularly as energy and environmental reforms were a key point of the Obama campaign.

Nightingale still believed that the death rates were due to poor nutrition, lack of supplies and overworking of the soldiers.

The Lowrie gang received considerable support from the Indian community, and were popular among poor blacks and whites who believed Lowrie and his gang best represented their interests.

The Young Turks believed that their bosses ' greed and conservatism were keeping them poor while the Irish and Jewish gangs got rich.

On reflection, Yasuhide Kobayashi, vice-president of Sony's Japan Studio, believed the North American box art and lack of an identifiable English title led to the game's poor sales in the United States, and stated plans to correct that for the release of The Last Guardian.

They believed that humans possessed a ka, or life-force, which left the body at the point of death.

While claims of racial bias in the writings of Rudolf Steiner and Alice Bailey were made, Bailey was firmly opposed to the Axis powers ; she believed that Adolf Hitler was possessed by the Dark Forces, and Steiner emphasized racial equality as a principle central to anthroposophical thought and humanity's progress.

* 1952 – Anneliese Michel, German woman believed to be possessed by demons ( d. 1976 )

23 year-old Maricica Irina Cornici was believed to be possessed by the devil.

It was believed that the Phrygian prophets were possessed by evil spirits, and both Maximilla and Priscilla were the targets of failed exorcisms.

Adherents also believed, as did other Christians, that martyrs and confessors also possessed this power.

Before the 19th century, people exhibiting symptoms similar to those were believed to be possessed.

Some spirits are believed to be able to give prophecies of upcoming events or situations pertaining to the possessed one, also called Chwal or the " Horse of the Spirit.

It is believed that those possessed by the lwa probably are at a very high spiritual level such that their soul is mature and at an advanced level.

It is also believed that there are those who feign possessions because they want attention or a feeling of importance, because those who are possessed carry a high importance in ceremony.

This approach was needed to win over the Non-Chalcedonians, since they, already believing Christ possessed a single nature, necessarily also believed that he held a single will.

In her possessed state she believed it was the head of a mountain lion, and she killed him with her bare hands and pulled his head off.

Animist religion was an important part of a Great Plains Indians ' life, as they believed that all things possessed spirits.

When Spanish explorers visited the area in the 1530s, it was inhabited by the former, who believed its springs possessed healing powers.

Instead, he argued that all of the great powers believed that if they possessed the ability to mobilise their armed forces faster than any of the others, this would serve as a sufficient deterrent to avoid war and allow them to achieve their foreign policy.

In the reality of Superman & Batman: Generations, the Guardians revealed that Alan Scott's power ring was actually a Green Lantern ring despite its apparent weakness to wood after Hal Jordan successfully harnessed it against Sinestro, realising that the ring actually had no weaknesses except what the user believed it possessed ; the Green Lantern Corps were vulnerable to yellow only because they believed the Guardians when they were told about this weakness, and Alan's ring's weakness to wood was caused when he was taken by surprise and struck on the back of the head with a wooden block during his first time using the ring.

They follow the Rule of St. Augustine, written sometime between 397-403, for a monastic community Augustine founded in Hippo ( modern day Algeria ), and which takes as its inspiration the early Christian community described in the Acts of the Apostles, particularly Acts 4: 32: " Now the company of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had everything in common " ( RSV ).

Formerly, people believed the dolls possessed the power to contain bad spirits.

It was superstitiously believed that Manny Pacquiao possessed one.

Godfrey was believed to have possessed immense physical strength ; it was said that in Cilicia he wrestled a bear and won, and that he once beheaded a camel with one blow of his sword.

Wilhelm Wundt ( 1832 – 1920 ), credited as the founder of experimental psychology, had a particular interest in the psychology of communities, which he believed possessed phenomena ( human language, customs, and religion ) that could not be described through a study of the individual.

Other key theorists include Gustave Le Bon ( 1841 – 1931 ) who believed that crowds possessed a ' racial unconscious ' with primitive, aggressive, and antisocial instincts, and William McDougall ( psychologist ), who believed in a ' group mind ,' which had a distinct existence born from the interaction of individuals.