Literary notes about conduce (AI summary)
The term "conduce" is often employed to signify that something tends toward or helps bring about a particular result. Writers have used it to emphasize the natural connection between actions or conditions and their beneficial effects. For instance, it is invoked to illustrate how labor, policies, or personal habits help foster overall well‐being or advance moral and social ideals [1, 2]. In other works the word takes on a more practical tone, relating physical settings or individual choices to improvements in comfort, health, or personal satisfaction [3, 4]. Across a range of genres—from philosophical treatises to narrative fiction—"conduce" serves as a subtle but powerful indicator of the causal relationship between a contributing factor and the achievement of a desired outcome [5, 6, 7].
- Labor is honorable, because the products of labor feed and clothe the world, and thus conduce to the welfare and happiness of mankind.
— from The Right of American Slavery by T. W. (True Worthy) Hoit - But it is not in this aspect of the subject alone that Union will be seen to conduce to the purpose of revenue.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison - His pleasures never made him steal one minute of an hour, nor go one step aside from occasions that might any way conduce to his advancement.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne - It will conduce to your own happiness to obtain her favour.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various - It is intended as a permanent structure and must conduce largely to the growth and prosperity of the city.
— from Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by William H. C. (William Henry Carman) Folsom - The first of these provisions sums up the main strategic requirement, to effect which all other strategic dispositions should conduce.
— from The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire 1793-1812, vol 1 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan - And Plato in his Phaedon ranks the madness of poets, of prophets, and of lovers among those properties which conduce to a happy life.
— from In Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
