But when we then see him exposing the inheritance and legacy of his struggles and victories, the laurel crown of his humanity, on the first convenient peg where any female may pick it to pieces for him; when we observe how well he can acquire and how little he is capable of preserving his acquisitions, and how he does not even dream that by procreation he might prepare a still more victorious life,—we then, indeed, become impatient and say, “Nothing can in the end result from humanity, individuals are wasted, for all rationality of a great advance of humanity is rendered impossible by the hazard of marriages: let us cease from being the assiduous spectators and fools of this aimless drama!”
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In what is termed politics, democratic social organization makes provision for this direct participation in control: in the economic region, control remains external and autocratic.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Nay, God himself, knowing the nature of the creatures formed by him, has condescended, in the earlier revelations that he made of himself, to teach by symbols; and the greatest of all teachers instructed the multitudes by parables.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

Cool breezes coursed in transparent eddies round Oak's face.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

The fact that Christianity is the established religion of the people makes possible a sympathy and understanding between the Philippines and western countries.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

The broad daylight from without streamed into the church in three enormous rays from the three opened portals.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

And thus, when the two sets became commingled in the equatorial regions, during the alternations of the Glacial periods, the northern forms were the more powerful and were able to hold their places on the mountains, and afterwards migrate southward with the southern forms; but not so the southern in regard to the northern forms.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

The plant life of the world has been adjusted to these varied conditions, and as a result we have plants with certain characteristics growing in the tropics at sea-level, but a very different class of plants with {118} different habits and characteristics inhabiting the elevated regions of this same zone.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

The only difference discoverable between the two cases is, that each representative of the United States will be elected by five or six thousand citizens; whilst in the individual States, the election of a representative is left to about as many hundreds.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Bouncer, the bull pup, was on hand also, chained in the engine room.
— from The Motor Boat Club at Nantucket; or, The Mystery of the Dunstan Heir by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

Might they not succeed with the cabinets and cupboards in the east rooms, on which she had never tried them, or thought of trying them, yet?
— from No Name by Wilkie Collins

Article 3 Definition of copyright The copyright to literary or artistic work consists in the exclusive right to dispose of the same, to publish, sell, and translate the same, or to authorize its translation, and to reproduce the same in any manner either entirely or partially.
— from Copyright: Its History and Its Law by R. R. (Richard Rogers) Bowker

The first quality which we marvel at in our analysis of Ulysses’ character is the extraordinary resource which he displays throughout all his wanderings.
— from The Adventures of Ulysses the Wanderer by Guy Thorne

After I had, and chiefly in the Edinburgh Review , been trying to restore a better, a purer, a higher standard of morals, and to wean men from the silly love of military glory, for which they are the first to pay, I find the Edinburgh Review preaching, not merely the old and common heresies, but ten thousand times worse, adopting a vile principle never yet avowed in terms, though too often and too much taken for a guide, unknown to those who followed it, in forming their judgments of great and successful criminals."
— from Studies in Literature by John Morley