I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.
I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.
All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.
MORE, adj. The comparative degree of too much.
I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists.
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.
As enunciated today, 'progress' is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods.
Philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Leibniz speculated on the possibility of 'intermediate species' over a century before the publication of Darwin's theory 'All advances by degrees in Nature, and nothing by leaps, and this law as applied to each, is part of my doctrine of Continuity. Although there may exist in some other world species intermediate between Man and the Apes, Nature has thought it best to remove them from us, in order to establish our superiority beyond question. I speak of intermediate species, and by no means limit myself to those leading to Man. I strongly approve of the research for analogies plants, insects, and Comparative Anatomy will increase these analogies, especially when we are able to take advantage of the microscope more than at present.'
At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs.
There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.
There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.
There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.
Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of comparative chaos.
Poverty and wealth are comparative sins.
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