Literary notes about artificial (AI summary)
The term “artificial” in literature is deployed to evoke a sense of contrivance or an imposed quality that stands in contrast to what is natural or genuine. Authors use it to critique not only physical imitations—such as synthetic flowers or engineered colors ([1], [2])—but also to comment on social and intellectual constructs, from forced etiquette and superficial manners ([3], [4], [5]) to elaborate systems and regulations that seem to distort the innate order of society ([6], [7], [8]). At times the word celebrates a crafted perfection in opposition to nature’s spontaneity ([9]), while in other contexts it underscores an inherent tension between man-made artifacts and the organic world, whether in art, rhetoric, or even in the realm of science and technology ([10], [11], [12]).
- Was the maid and housekeeper of Comtesse Honorine when the latter left home and became a maker of artificial flowers.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Cerfberr and Christophe - His eyebrows were tinged with black, and his cheeks painted with an artificial red and white.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - “Your manners require not the artificial restraint of society.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales by Bret Harte - Women in the same way acquire, from a supposed necessity, an equally artificial mode of behaviour.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft - But as soon as the prince had gone her face resumed its former cold, artificial expression.
— from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy - Thus the appearance of new forms and the disappearance of old forms, both natural and artificial, are bound together.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin - To give "nature" full swing was to replace an artificial, corrupt, and inequitable social order by a new and better kingdom of humanity.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey - Spencer criticizes this conception of Hobbes as representing society as a "factitious" and artificial rather than a "natural" product.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - I said to myself, “Surely here I have found the perfection of natural, in contradistinction from artificial grace.”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe - It requires a particular apparatus to prepare the gaseous artificial mineral waters.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - This is true, and it is comparatively slow work to bring up a farm, unless you have plenty of capital and can buy all the artificial manure you want.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Cosmic space and cosmic time, so far from being the intuitions that Kant said they were, are constructions as patently artificial as an
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James
