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The term "conditions" in literature is employed in a richly varied manner, functioning as both a literal descriptor of external circumstances and a metaphorical device to denote abstract criteria or influences. In legal and political texts, conditions frequently imply stipulated agreements or prerequisites—as seen when constitutional monarchy is discussed with necessary conditions for rule ([1]) or when terms of employment and engagement are explicitly set ([2], [3]). In scientific and philosophical writings, authors invoke conditions to articulate the environmental or methodological settings under which phenomena occur, such as the effects of climatic and natural conditions ([4], [5]) or experimental settings in research ([6]). Likewise, in social and economic discourse, conditions refer to the contextual forces that shape human behavior and societal structures, whether through material circumstances or broader cultural influences ([7], [8]). Even in artistic narratives, the recurrence or alteration of conditions is pivotal, highlighting both the fixed and mutable aspects of life ([9], [10]). Overall, "conditions" emerges as a multifaceted term, bridging practical stipulations with the abstract frameworks that underpin human experience.
  1. The monarch would have to succumb, and conform to the conditions of constitutional royalty, or give place to some one who would.
    — from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill
  2. I accept, but on the following conditions: You must bring two pistols, charge them in my presence, and give me the choice.
    — from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
  3. If you do not agree to these conditions you shall have nothing.
    — from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang
  4. —Yes, of course, when the climatic conditions are favourable—as in the case of the Indian ideal.
    — from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Nietzsche
  5. Effects of external conditions.
    — from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
  6. These conditions, stated in an orderly sequence, would constitute the method or way or manner of its growth.
    — from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey
  7. The equality of conditions leads by a still straighter road to several of the effects which I have here described.
    — from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville
  8. does the equality of social conditions habitually and permanently lead men to revolution?
    — from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville
  9. The art of the past is powerless even to create similar art in the present, unless similar conditions recur independently.
    — from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana
  10. Here was a proof that the Divine Will had not decreed that man was to work out his punishment under unchanging conditions of perpetual warfare.
    — from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

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