Literary notes about effects (AI summary)
The term "effects" is employed in literature to denote a broad spectrum of consequences—from tangible outcomes of physical actions to abstract, philosophical results. In scientific and empirical texts, for example, it highlights observable results such as those from experimental studies or natural phenomena [1, 2, 3]. Philosophers and social theorists, on the other hand, invoke "effects" to illustrate the chain of cause and consequence fundamental to human reasoning and social change [4, 5, 6], while novelists and poets often use the term to evoke emotional responses or the transformative power of events and ideas [7, 8, 9]. Even in descriptions of personal property or historical events, "effects" maintains its role as a marker of what follows from specific actions, blurring the lines between literal impact and metaphorical resonance [10, 11, 12].
- In a study of the effects of coffee drinking upon 464 school children, C.K. Taylor
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - Most, if not all, the effects which electricity produces must go on in nature, but altogether too obscurely for observation."
— from How We Think by John Dewey - Effects of lowering the temperature in a limited region of space occupied by vapor.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - The necessary connexion betwixt causes and effects is the foundation of our inference from one to the other.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume - One of the effects of the mobilization of the Negro has been to bring him into closer and more intimate contact with his own people.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison - As I sat, a train of reflection occurred to me, which led me to consider the effects of what I was now doing.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - The emotional effects, also, are often similar: images may stimulate desire almost as strongly as do the objects they represent.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell - I can only compare their crowded clarity to the effects of a reasonable dose of opium.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. Wells - Administration of his personalty and effects was granted, on 22nd Nov., 1815, to his widow, Frances Maria Bringhurst.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call by Charles Dalton - A great panic struck them at first as they ran about to their lodgings to carry away their effects.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy - If his mistaken theory have at all influenced his poetic compositions, let the effects be pointed out, and the instances given.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
