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In the first instance, `` mimesis '' is here used to mean the recalling of experience in terms of vivid images rather than in terms of abstract ideas or conventional designations.
A dominant motive is the poet's longing for his homeland and its boyhood associations: `` Not men-folk, but the fields where I would stray, The stones where as a child I used to play ''.
So in these pages the term `` technology '' is used to include any and all means which could amplify, project, or augment man's control over himself and over other men.
But what a super-Herculean task it is to winnow anything of value from the mud-beplastered arguments used so freely, particularly since such common use is made of cliches and stereotypes, in themselves declarations of intellectual bankruptcy.
This text from Dr. Huxley is sometimes used by enthusiasts to indicate that they have the permission of the scientists to press the case for a wonderful unfoldment of psychic powers in human beings.
The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.
Properly used, the present book is an excellent instrument of enlightenment.
This prospect did not please Mrs. King any more than did the possibility that her daughter might marry a Bohemian, but she used it to suggest to Thompson that, `` It is not in her nature to love you ''.
On the other hand, the consensus of opinion is that, used with caution and in conjunction with other types of evidence, the native sources still provide a valid rough outline for the English settlement of southern Britain.
The trouble with this machinery is that it is not used and the reason that it is not used is the absence of a conscious sense of community among the free nations.
In addition to his experiments in reading poetry to jazz, Patchen is beginning to use the figure of the modern jazz musician as a myth hero in the same way he used the figure of the private detective a decade ago.
When different colors are used, she is just as likely to color trees purple, hair green, etc..
Berlin is merely being used by Moscow as a stalking horse.
The collection of information is meaningless unless it is understood and used for a definite purpose.
This is used as a reference for comparing the ohmic heating and the electrical energy obtained from the measured current through the element and the measured voltage across the element.

is and for
It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.
( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.
this is not so, for education offers all kinds of dividends, including how to pull the wool over a husband's eyes while you are having an affair with his wife.
`` What is the scaffolding for, Brassnose ''??
He speaks your language too, for he is the grandson of a chieftain on Taui who made much magic and was strong and cunning.
This is a paradise for hunters.
`` And if the dive goes OK he has the exclusive import rights to your line for this country, is that right ''??
There is nothing for you '', Matsuo said.
It is almost time for and calinda to begin ''.
I want the room in the attic prepared for him He is a most unusual lad, quite precocious in many ways.
-- liberal considers that the need for a national economy with controls that will assure his conception of social justice is so great that individual and local liberties as well as democratic processes may have to yield before it.
In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.
but for this discussion the most important division is between those who have been reconstructed and those who haven't.
Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.
Of greater importance, however, is the content of those programs, which have had and are having enormous consequences for the American people.
The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.
Reduced to its simplest terms, it is an assumption of a collective duty to compensate for the inability of individuals to cope with the rigors of the era.
National responsibility for individual welfare is a concept not limited to the United States or even to the Western nations.
For better or for worse, we all now live in welfare states, the organizing principle of which is collective responsibility for individual well-being.
( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.
There is little time for the men in the command centers to reflect about the implications of these clocks.
Only recently new `` holes '' were discovered in our safety measures, and a search is now on for more.

is and seawater
Bronze resists corrosion ( especially seawater corrosion ) and metal fatigue more than steel and is a better conductor of heat and electricity than most steels.
Calcium is also the fifth-most-abundant dissolved ion in seawater by both molarity and mass, after sodium, chloride, magnesium, and sulfate.
More recent papers have confirmed this observation, demonstrating that seawater Ca < sup > 2 +</ sup > concentration is not constant, and that the ocean probably never is in “ steady state ” with respect to its calcium input and output.
The actual reaction is more complicated and involves the bicarbonate ion ( HCO < sub > 3 </ sub >< sup >-</ sup >) that forms when CO < sub > 2 </ sub > reacts with water at seawater pH:
This role as a sink for CO < sub > 2 </ sub > is driven by two processes, the solubility pump and the biological pump .< ref > The former is primarily a function of differential CO < sub > 2 </ sub > solubility in seawater and the thermohaline circulation, while the latter is the sum of a series of biological processes that transport carbon ( in organic and inorganic forms ) from the surface euphotic zone to the ocean's interior.
Water is distilled to remove impurities, such as salt from seawater.
This is a plan to convey seawater from the Red Sea near Aqaba to the Dead Sea.
Due to magnesium ion's high solubility in water, it is the third most abundant element dissolved in seawater.
Thus, seawater flow is eastward in the Strait's surface waters, and westward below ; once in the Atlantic, this chemically distinct Mediterranean Intermediate Water can persist thousands of kilometres away from its source.
The anhydrous equivalent of gypsum is anhydrite ; it can form directly from seawater in highly arid conditions.
Mariculture is a specialized branch of aquaculture involving the cultivation of marine organisms for food and other products in the open ocean, an enclosed section of the ocean, or in tanks, ponds or raceways which are filled with seawater.
A helium-oxygen breathing gas is often used by deep-sea divers at depths of seawater over 55 m ( 180 ft ) to keep the diver from experiencing oxygen toxemia, the lethal effect of high-pressure oxygen, and nitrogen narcosis, the distracting narcotic effect of the nitrogen in air beyond this partial-pressure threshold.
As such, it is found dissolved in seawater ( which is 0. 04 % potassium by weight ), and is part of many minerals.
Poleward of the temperate latitudes salinity is also low, because little evaporation of seawater takes place in these frigid areas.
Things that do not have owners include: ideas ( except for intellectual property ), seawater ( which is, however, protected by anti-pollution laws ), parts of the seafloor ( see the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea for restrictions ), gases in Earth's atmosphere, animals in the wild ( although in most nations, animals are tied to the land.
Carbon neutral fuel is synthetic fuel — such as methane, gasoline, diesel fuel or jet fuel — produced from renewable or nuclear energy used to hydrogenate waste carbon dioxide recycled from power plant flue exhaust gas or derived from carbonic acid in seawater .< ref name = MacDowell2010 > ( Review.
)</ ref >< ref name = Socolow2011 > To the extent that carbon neutral fuels displace fossil fuels, or if they are produced from waste carbon or seawater carbonic acid, and their combustion is subject to carbon capture at the flue or exhaust pipe, they result in negative carbon dioxide emission and net carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere, and thus constitute a form of greenhouse gas remediation .< ref name = Goeppert2012 > ( Review.
Automobile exhaust gas capture has also been proposed to be economical but would require extensive design changes or retrofitting .< ref name = Musadi2011 > Since carbonic acid in seawater is in chemical equilibrium with atmospheric carbon dioxide, extraction of carbon from seawater has been studied.

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