Literary notes about Conducive (AI summary)
In literature, the word "conducive" is frequently employed as an adjective to highlight how certain conditions, actions, or environments promote a desired outcome. Its usage spans a broad range of subjects, from interpersonal relations and societal happiness ([1], [2], [3]) to physical health or environmental suitability ([4], [5], [6]). Writers often choose "conducive" to underscore that a particular state or decision actively facilitates positive change—be it in matters of economy, learning, or moral improvement ([7], [8], [9]). Even in contexts that are more literal, such as describing the effects of climate on plant growth or the benefits of a well-planned infrastructure, the term underscores a naturally supportive or enabling influence ([10], [4]).
- In any case, I trust that what I am about to propose will, in the long run, prove conducive to the happiness of both.
— from The Heart of a Mystery by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight - This was a more reasonable custom and more conducive to morality.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Poverty, however, is not the only case in which it is conducive to the general happiness that one man should render unbought services to another.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick - Lind believed that a damp, cold climate, such as that of the Low Countries, was conducive to scurvy.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess - With a perfectly dry atmosphere a high degree of heat can be borne, and the dryness moreover is conducive to perspiration.
— from The Turkish Bath, Its Design and Construction by Robert Owen Allsop - The open-air life is most conducive to health, and the climate is absolutely perfect, owing to its equability and purity.
— from The Hawaiian Archipelago by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird - For the problem here is not, what value is true?—but, what value is most conducive to the highest form of human life on earth?
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Nietzsche - The generality of a practice is in some cases a strong presumption that it is, or at all events once was, conducive to laudable ends.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill - Education through occupations consequently combines within itself more of the factors conducive to learning than any other method.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey - other [Pg 207] buildings, conducive to the health and pleasure, not of the noble citizens only, but of the meanest.
— from Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 2 of 2) With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present Condition by Charles Bucke
