Literary notes about Homogeneous (AI summary)
The word "homogeneous" is employed in literature to evoke a sense of uniformity and unbroken consistency across diverse contexts. It is used to describe both the physical and the conceptual: in scientific writings, light or materials are portrayed as uniformly composed, as when a prism separates homogeneous rays or when a liquid is stirred into a perfectly uniform blend ([1], [2], [3]). In philosophical discourse, thinkers use it to denote a pure, undifferentiated state of consciousness or meaning—suggesting that clarity comes from an intrinsic sameness ([4], [5], [6]). The term also appears in sociological and cultural commentary where populations or political groups are characterized as unified, lending an air of stability and collective identity ([7], [8], [9]). Even in literary descriptions of architecture or nature, "homogeneous" is invoked to create images of seamless integrity and order, as seen in depictions of cohesive urban landscapes or stylistically uniform structures ([10], [11]).
- Effects of differently colored mediums upon homogeneous rays separated by the prism.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Second refraction of a homogeneous pencil.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - When a homogeneous liquid has resulted, pour it into earthen receptacles.
— from Henley's Twentieth Century Formulas, Recipes and Processes - But this “how many times” is based upon successive repetition, consequently upon time and the synthesis of the homogeneous therein.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - To be clear or perspicuous a meaning must be detached, single, self-contained, homogeneous as it were, throughout.
— from How We Think by John Dewey - As long as the cognition of reason is homogeneous, definite bounds to it are inconceivable.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant - By the fires of reconstruction the whites were fused into a more homogeneous society, social as well as political.
— from The Sequel of Appomattox: A Chronicle of the Reunion of the States by Walter L. (Walter Lynwood) Fleming - We are indeed the most homogeneous people on the face of the globe.
— from The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (June 1913)Vol. LXXXVI. New Series: Vol. LXIV. May to October, 1913 by Various - The caste represents the highest degree of organization to which the homogeneous crowd is susceptible.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - It was not then merely a handsome city; it was a homogeneous city, an architectural and historical product of the Middle Ages, a chronicle in stone.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo - From one end to the other, it was homogeneous and compact.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
