He had no idea which was up and which was down.

As a Humanist, Dr. Huxley interests himself in the possibilities of human development, and one thing we can say about this suggestion, which comes from a leading zoologist, is that, so far as he is concerned, the scientific outlook places no rigid limitation upon the idea of future human evolution.

The pamphlets are about law, the corporation, forms of government, the idea of freedom, the defense of liberty, the various lethargies which overtake our major institutions, the gap between traditional social ideals and the working mechanisms that have been set in motion for their realization.

An idea, let us say, may be roughly defined as a theme or topic with which our reflection may be concerned.

Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.

Yet, the idea imbedded in each was identical: to surround the unknown with mystery and to isolate that class which had been given special dominion over the secrets of God.

And to do this requires first of all the kind of information about people which is provided by the scientists in industrial anthropology and consumer research, who, for example, tell Courtenay that three days is the `` optimum priming period for a closed social circuit to be triggered with a catalytic cue-phrase '' -- which means that an effective propaganda technique is to send an idea into circulation and then three days later reinforce or undermine it.

Sir -- Permit me to commend your editorial in which you stress the fact that a program of county colleges will substantially increase local tax burdens and that taxpayers have a right to a clear idea of what such a program would commit them to.

But what is the operational worth of a sociology which mimetically reproduces the idea of physical models??

The dated poems also give us an idea of the degree to which Hardy drew upon past productions for his various volumes, and therefore probably are an indication of the amount of poetry he was writing at the time.

In his analysis, however, he touches upon but fails to explore an idea, generally neglected in discussions of the book, which I believe is central to its art -- the importance of human hands as a recurring feature of the narrative.

This idea, which occurs in both Tatian and Cyprian, fits especially well into the scheme of Irenaeus' theology ; ;

If this aspect of death as punishment is not distinguished from the idea of death as natural termination, the conclusion seems inevitable that temporal existence itself is a form of punishment rather than the state into which man is put by the will of the Creator.

but why did the Old Chinese postulate five elements, when the Ancient Near East -- which may have initiated the idea that natural elements exerted influence in human life and activities -- recognized only four??

This was a continuation of a good idea which was first tried out Saturday night when the Eddie Stack group, also local talent, went on first.

The D Minor Sonata, Op. 31 No. 2, introduced by dynamically shaped arpeggios, was most engaging in its moments of quasi-recitative -- single lines in which the fingers seemed to be feeling their way toward the idea to come.

He contends this idea doesn't conflict with experiments on which the principle of conservation of matter and energy is based because some slight error must be assumed in such experiments.

Lincoln rejected the idea, saying, " I will suffer death before I consent ... to any concession or compromise which looks like buying the privilege to take possession of this government to which we have a constitutional right.

The animistic idea as the representation of the imaginative reality, is sanctified in the Homeric poems and in Greek myths, in stories of the god Hephaestus ( Phaistos ) and the mythic Daedalus ( the builder of the labyrinth ) that made images which moved of their own accord.

However, as has been pointed out by Alexis Manaster Ramer and Paul Sidwell ( 1997 ), Strahlenberg actually opposed the idea of a closer relationship between the languages which later became known as " Altaic "..

For a reader to assign the title of author upon any written work is to attribute certain standards upon the text which, for Foucault, are working in conjunction with the idea of " the author function ".

He also keeps a diary, full of his observations of life in Oran, which Rieux incorporates into the narrative .</ br > It is Tarrou who first comes up with the idea of organizing teams of volunteers to fight the plague.

Looking at those figures, he might be justified in thinking that the purchase looked like a good idea.

In as much as patients can throw themselves into the nervous sleep, and manifest all the usual phenomena of Mesmerism, through their own unaided efforts, as I have so repeatedly proved by causing them to maintain a steady fixed gaze at any point, concentrating their whole mental energies on the idea of the object looked at ; or that the same may arise by the patient looking at the point of his own finger, or as the Magi of Persia and Yogi of India have practised for the last 2, 400 years, for religious purposes, throwing themselves into their ecstatic trances by each maintaining a steady fixed gaze at the tip of his own nose ; it is obvious that there is no need for an exoteric influence to produce the phenomena of Mesmerism.

The idea was taken up by Latin American intellectuals and political leaders of the mid-and late-nineteenth century, who no longer looked to Spain or Portugal as cultural models, but rather to France.

Even though it looked like a small rifle, it used 9mm pistol ammunition, which introduced the idea of an automatic weapon that fired pistol rounds.

Thus, when he began to develop his theory of physical education, he naturally looked to the example set by the Athenian idea of the gymnasium, a training facility that simultaneously encouraged physical and intellectual development.

Thinking that having Mario in the kart looked better than previous designs, the idea of a Mario themed racing game was born.

In 1942, published Town Planning and Road Traffic which looked ahead to postwar reconstruction and pioneered the idea of motorways in Britain.

We even have a fairly good idea of what Gudea looked like, since he placed in temples throughout his city numerous statues or idols depicting himself with lifelike realism, ( Statues of Gudea ).

Using an example to explain this belief in materialist-idealist unity, the archaeologist Matthew Johnson looked at the idea of landscape amongst past societies.

With the rapid expansion of the farming population, Democrats looked to the west for new lands, an idea which became known as " Manifest Destiny.

While technically incorrect, and looked down upon by hard science-fiction fans and authors, the idea of another “ dimension ” has become synonymous with the term “ parallel universe ”.

Thanks to its good state of preservation, it is one of the few Maya cities where the casual visitor can get a good idea of how the entire ceremonial center looked in ancient times.

The probe is named after the Rosetta Stone, as it is hoped the mission will help form an idea of how the solar system looked before planets formed.

" Most Westerners had absolutely no idea what the Turks and Muslims looked like, and they assumed that an absence of Christianity must coincide with repulsive physical attributes.

This train station's departures hall now provides a good idea of what the interior of Penn Station looked like ( at half the scale ).

This is where the second idea of Land Sparing can be looked on as another alternative.

It's said that it was when Swift looked across the expanse of Lough Ennell one day and saw the tiny human figures on the opposite shore of the lake that he conceived the idea of the Lilliputians featured in Gulliver's Travels.

The idea was taken up by others, until in a short time it was adopted by the entire army and is now looked upon as the most appropriate and touching part of a military funeral .” As Tidball proudly proclaimed, “ Battery A has the honor of having introduced this custom into the service, and it is worthy of historical note .”

It looked like the idea had promise.

With a more physiological approach to the brain and a rejection to the idea that humans were the only beings capable of rational thought ( which was central the Descartes theory ), Willis looked at specialized structures of the brain.

Maori, he wrote, " craved " colonisation and looked up to the Englishman " as being so eminently superior to himself, that the idea of asserting his own independence of equality never enters his mind ".

This has also lent support to the idea that whales evolved from water-loving creatures that looked like small deer.

Wheeler looked at ants in a new light, in terms of their social organization and in 1910 he delivered a lecture at Woods Hole on the “ The Ant-Colony as an Organism ,” which pioneered the idea of superorganisms.

In 1967, the school put forth a multi-campus idea that would move the undergraduate campus to an alternative location ; a committee formed and looked at numerous locations, including sites in Valencia, Orange County, Ventura County and Westlake Village.