The hands and their bosses saw him as a lone knight of the range, waging a dedicated crusade against a lawless new society that was threatening a beloved way of life.

Delphine was a pace-setter in high society.

Although Faulkner was the heir in his own family to this tradition, he did not have Stark Young's inclination to romanticize and sentimentalize the planter society.

It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.

The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.

Athenian society was split into two factions, the Philistines and the Artists.

It was this fear which explained the development of a priestly caste whose function in society was to mollify and appease the angry deities.

These never ceased to suggest that if, in the eyes of Marx and Lenin `` full communism '' was still a very distant ideal, the establishment of a Communist society had now, under Khrushchev, become an `` immediate and tangible reality ''.

Sir Henry Sumner Maine, a hundred years before Communism was a force to be reckoned with, wrote his brilliant legal generalization, that `` the progress of society is from status to contract ''.

Particularly was this true as laissez-faire capitalism became the dominant credo of Western society.

Indeed, contract was the dominant legal theme of the century, the touchstone of the free society.

It did not serve to contrast the existing order of society with a possible alternative order, because the age of innocence was not a possible alternative once man had sinned.

In a brief chapter dealing with `` Various Other Diagnoses '', he quotes isolated passages from some writers whose views seem to corroborate his own, and finds it `` most remarkable that a critical view of twentieth-century society was already held by a number of thinkers living in the nineteenth.

Actually, the dispute between Parker and the society of his time, both ecclesiastical and social, was a real one, a bitter one.

But Theodore Parker, commencing his mission to the world-at-large, disguised as the minister of a `` twenty-eighth Congregational Church '' which bore no resemblance to the Congregational polities descended from the founders ( among which were still the Unitarian churches ), made explicit from the beginning that the conflict between him and the Hunkerish society was not something which could be evaporated into a genteel difference about clerical decorum.

Proper ritual observance at any level of society was capable of generating power for use in the spirit world ; ;

It's the old story, war or no war, and more than one viewer may recall Hollywood's `` Titanic '', several seasons back, when the paramount concern was for the marital discord of a society dilettante.

There was a tendency in late eighteenth century Enlightenment thought to understand human society as natural phenomena that behaved according to certain principles and that could be observed empirically.

From 1764 onwards, there was a gradual change from a slave-based society to one based on production for domestic consumption and export.

A social movement that was individualist, egalitarian and perfectionist grew to a political democratic majority attacking slavery, and slavery ’ s defense in the Southern pre-industrial traditional society brought the two sides to war.

The author's name " indicates the status of the discourse within a society and culture ", and at one time was used as an anchor for interpreting a text, a practice which Barthes would argue is not a particularly relevant or valid endeavor.

) His first case was " The Affair at the Victory Ball ", which saw Poirot enter the high society and begin his career as a private detective.

When two of the founders of that society, Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott, moved to India at the end of that year, he was constituted as the President of the American body.

The intellectual society of this era was characterized by itinerant scholars, who were often employed by various state rulers as advisers on the methods of government, war, and diplomacy.

Unification or Death (), unofficially known as the Black Hand ( Црна рука, Crna ruka ), was a secret military society formed by members of the Serbian army in the Kingdom of Serbia, which was founded on 6 September 1901.

Over time their ethnic origin was forgotten, and they formed the bottom layer of Korean society.

They settled in Madison, where William taught music lessons and served as the secretary to the newly formed Unitarian society.

There, from 1715 he rendered valuable assistance to a society that had been formed for translating the New Testament into French.

At this time, Virginia and other southern colonies had become a slave society, in which slaveholders formed the ruling class and the economy was based on slave labor.

These formed a secret society, the " Military League ", with the purpose of emulating their Ottoman colleagues and seek reforms.

Representative classes in this revolt included the full range of French society from the industrial bourgeoisie ( who had been excluded from the " finance aristocracy " that formed the major part of the bourgeoisie that supported the July Monarchy ), the petty bourgeoisie and the workers.

In these years the southern colonies were becoming a slave society, in which slave labor powered the economy and slaveholders formed the political élite.

He believed that society was formed from a state of nature to protect people from the state of war between mankind that exists otherwise.

Provided a law is properly formed, in accordance with the rules recognized in the society concerned, it is a valid law, regardless of whether it is just by some other standard.

The Loch Ness Phenomena Investigation Bureau ( LNPIB ) was a UK-based society formed in 1962 by Norman Collins, R. S. R. Fitter, David James, MP, Peter Scott and Constance Whyte " to study Loch Ness to identify the creature known as the Loch Ness Monster or determine the causes of reports of it.

He formed a society in Philadelphia and traveled along the coast.

Like feudalism which, together with manorialism, formed the legal and organizational framework of feudal society, manorial structures were not uniform.

Early European American scholars described the Native Americans as having a society dominated by clans or gentes ( in the Roman model ) before tribes were formed.

In 1784 Herder argued that geography formed the natural economy of a people, and that their customs and society would develop along the lines that their basic environment favored.

To further reform, a Swedish orthographic society ( Svenska rättstavningssällskapet ) was formed on November 28, 1885, chaired by linguist Adolf Noreen ( 1854 – 1925 ), and published a journal Nystavaren.

Anthropologist Adam Kuper argued that "' Structuralism ' came to have something of the momentum of a millennial movement and some of its adherents felt that they formed a secret society of the seeing in a world of the blind.

* France-In 1885, a society called the Société de Psychologie Physiologique ( Society for Physiological Psychology ) was formed by Charles Richet, Théodule-Armand Ribot and Léon Marillier.

Along with several other mathematicians, Banach formed a society for mathematicians in 1919.

Young Italy was a secret society formed to promote Italian unification.

A key to forming society is social interaction, and Durkheim believes that human beings, when in a group, will inevitably act in such a way that a society is formed.

The first informal mystic society, or krewe, was formed in Mobile in 1711, the Boeuf Gras Society.

Brownson, who argued that, in a sense, three " constitutions " are involved: first the constitution of nature that includes all of what the Founders called " natural law "; second the constitution of society, an unwritten and commonly understood set of rules for the society formed by a social contract before it establishes a government ; by which it does establish the third, a constitution of government.