Literary notes about Connected (AI summary)
The term “connected” is deployed in literature with a remarkable range of meanings. In some works, its use is tangible and literal, as with railroads uniting cities ([1]) or the physical linkage of machinery ([2], [3]), while in others it conveys abstract relationships among ideas, individuals, or historical forces. Authors merge the concrete and the figurative when relating familial or social bonds—as seen when a character’s lineage is revealed ([4], [5])—or when philosophical discourse examines the ties between cognition and perception ([6], [7]). Meanwhile, historical narratives and scientific treatises use it to chart the intricate interplay of nature, society, and tradition ([8], [9], [10]). This multiplicity reinforces the depth both of language and the concepts it endeavors to articulate.
- Both New Bern and Wilmington are connected with Raleigh by railroads which unite at Goldsboro.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant - The organ pedals are connected to the pallets by an action similar to that of the keys.
— from How it Works by Archibald Williams - 83, two or more lamps were connected in series groups from one conductor to the other.
— from How it Works by Archibald Williams - It was not to be supposed that any other people could be meant than those with whom she was connected.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - His first wife was rather well-connected, I believe: at any rate she was related to the Brands of Brand Hall.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant - the conception of a thing but merely indicate the manner in which it is connected with the faculty of cognition.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - The material connected must be given by lower faculties to the Understanding, for the latter is not an intuitive faculty, but by nature 'empty.'
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James - These cases anyhow show that variation is not necessarily connected, as some authors have supposed, with the act of generation.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin - We can understand how it is that all the forms of life, ancient and recent, make together one grand system; for all are connected by generation.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin - In these districts, each Barbarian was connected by the ties of hospitality with some Roman provincial.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
