And in this case the effects of intercrossing can hardly be counterbalanced by natural selection always tending to modify all the individuals in each district in exactly the same manner to the conditions of each; for in a continuous area, the conditions will generally graduate away insensibly from one district to another.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

I shall adopt this American division in explaining the symbolism, although, after all, the particular number of the steps, or the peculiar method of their division into series, will not in any way affect the general symbolism of the whole legend.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

I a'most believed as you'd giv' me the slip, and I had as good as half a mind for to advertise you in the newspapers to come for'ard.' Bradley's face turned so dark on this hint, that Riderhood deemed it expedient to soft
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

There is some difficulty in explaining the steps by which the number 729 is obtained; the oligarch is removed in the third degree from the royal and aristocratical, and the tyrant in the third degree from the oligarchical; but we have to arrange the terms as the sides of a square and to count the oligarch twice over, thus reckoning them not as = 5 but as = 9.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Magnum est argumentum in utroque fuisse moderatum —It speaks volumes for man that, when placed in quite different situations, he displays in each the same spirit of moderation.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Only the fewest amongst us are aware of what is involved, from the standpoint of desirability, in every "thus should it be, but it is not," or even "thus it ought to have been": such expressions of opinion involve a condemnation of the whole course of events.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The first duty which is at this time imposed upon those who direct our affairs is to educate the democracy; to warm its faith, if that be possible; to purify its morals; to direct its energies; to substitute a knowledge of business for its inexperience, and an acquaintance with its true interests for its blind propensities; to adapt its government to time and place, and to modify it in compliance with the occurrences and the actors of the age.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

17, taking care that the distance c to d is exactly the same as the distance a to b in the cross.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

On the other hand, if the Bank meant to get rid of these shares, to whom and how did it expect to sell them?
— from Money (L'Argent) by Émile Zola

For humanity's claim From its silence and darkness is ever the same; The hope of that world whose existence is bliss May not stifle the tears of the mourners of this.
— from Personal Poems I Part 1 from Volume IV of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

Cobbett, a Protestant, had written hastily and furiously, but both men had drawn in essentials the same picture.
— from Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward

Every mechanical device is employed to simplify the tangle for the comfort of the busy minds that must constantly employ themselves in solving it.
— from The Modern Railroad by Edward Hungerford

Hales went to Dort a Calvinist—that, in those days, is equivalent to saying that he had never given his theological position much attention.
— from Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson

The lady raised her veil, revealing a face which recalled the sublime goddesses of ancient times; a lofty brow, beautiful lips, cheeks in whose dimples Cupids were playing, and dark eyes with the deep, indescribable expression that seems to conceal all the enigmas of feeling, alluring charm and repellent sadness in every feature—a wonderful play of sorrow and [Pg 82] sunshine which in the sky is called a rainbow, in the human face passion.
— from A Christian But a Roman by Mór Jókai

She had been told to be very careful with the card she was painting, and do it exactly the same as the copy, and to these instructions she strictly adhered.
— from Anecdotes & Incidents of the Deaf and Dumb by W. R. (William Robert) Roe