It is a gradual adjustment of wills under new conditions and represents the position of equilibrium which would be completely realized if all the society were good.
— from A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Cora May Williams
It is only since seeing her in free life that I have been able to compare her face under normal conditions and realised the intensity of distress which must have caused the continually strained expression she had in Holloway, varied at times by contortions due to acute pain.
— from Prisons & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences by Lytton, Constance, Lady
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