Man, therefore, has a specialist as well as comrade-like aspect; and the case of militarism is not the only case of such specialist submission.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

At the same time, in my view, it does not therefore follow that the comparison of motives is not the final and most perfect form of the moral judgment.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Is one half of the human species, like the poor African slaves, to be subject to prejudices that brutalize them, when principles would be a surer guard only to sweeten the cup of man? Is not this indirectly to deny women reason?
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

The question was, must I go back to Covey, or must I now tempt to run away?
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

From Aristotle on down the philosophers have said that the main force in shaping the characters of men is not teaching and preaching,
— from The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 by United States. Department of Defense

‘The Citadel of Marseilles is near the Port, extending its Fortifications to the Entrance of the same; and yet it commands the Town.
— from The Plague at Marseilles Consider'd With Remarks Upon the Plague in General, Shewing Its Cause and Nature of Infection, with Necessary Precautions to Prevent the Speading of That Direful Distemper by Richard Bradley

The only thing that can corrupt our minds, is not to grant our request.
— from Life of Joseph Brant—Thayendanegea (Vol. II) Including the Border Wars of the American Revolution and Sketches of the Indian Campaigns of Generals Harmar, St. Clair, and Wayne; And Other Matters Connected with the Indian Relations of the United States and Great Britain, from the Peace of 1783 to the Indian Peace of 1795 by William L. (William Leete) Stone

"His contempt of money is not to be paralleled by any of the King's Umbraws or Governors," Sir John wrote, a year later, when Itimad Khan was dead.
— from The Pirates of Malabar, and an Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago by J. (John) Biddulph

While in its own context the philosophy of ultimate reality entered into the vital concerns of men, it now tends to be an ingenious dialectic exercised in professorial corners by a few who have retained ancient premises while rejecting their application to the conduct of life.
— from Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by George H. Mead

I do not indeed find that he makes any mention of indigo properly so called; but a complete catalogue of merchandise is not to be expected from him.
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann

The grave of a poor man has a flat stone, the largest his friends can find, planted upright to mark the place of burial: many have no mark at all, but the collection of mounds is not to be mistaken.
— from At the Court of the Amîr: A Narrative by John Alfred Gray

This hard; sorer still conduct of Members immediately near the Major.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 108, May 25, 1895 by Various

Our answer is that to deny the continuity of matter is not to deny real extension, but only to maintain that no real extension is made up of continuous matter .
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875 by Various