The theory of chance: the soul is a selecting and self-nourishing being, which is persistently extremely clever and creative (this creative power is commonly overlocked!
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In principle, each clan and consequently each totem, is represented equally in the two classes of a single phratry, since one of the classes is that of the children and the other that of the parents from whom the former get their totems.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

It possesses every comfort and convenience, is admirably managed, and has a well-informed and most obliging landlord.
— from The Story of Majorca and Minorca by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir

We do not know the name of the author of the alleged protocols, though obviously it would make all the difference in the world whether these are summaries of statements made by a responsible leader of the Jewish people or the wild vaporings of such a crank as infests practically every conference and convention.
— from The Jew and American Ideals by John Spargo

Hence all accidental act that is properly and truly received in a subject is the immediate product of action, and its production exactly coincides and coextends with its reception.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874 by Various

From whence it appears, that the Division of the Greeks , into Protasis , Epitasis , Catastrophe and Choricus , is a better one than that of the Romans into five Acts: For the Greek Division distinguishes the Drama into Parts that differ in Nature ; whereas the other Division into Acts, considers them only as different in Quantity , without regard to any internal Distinction."
— from Lectures on Poetry Read in the Schools of Natural Philosophy at Oxford by Joseph Trapp

I glanced into one, and found it divided into paragraphs, each containing a charge against your church, illustrated by an anecdote.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

Its diagonal edges or groins divide it into four sections, triangular in plan, each called a compartment .
— from A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised by A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster) Hamlin

The reluctance of religious men to admit the claims of what appeared to be, and, indeed, to a certain extent was, light, was thus due to a more or less distinct perception that their own creed, amid all its partial errors, contained a central truth more important than all the partial truths of science.
— from The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various

“Parbleu, lieutenant, as if a body knew all his neighbors in Paris! except concierges and cooks, whose business it is.”
— from The Milkmaid of Montfermeil (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XX) by Paul de Kock

It penetrated every crack and crevice of the huge buildings, the second and largest of which covered a ground space of more than an acre.
— from Flamsted quarries by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller