"Transmissible" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... runs counter to the latest biological orthodoxy, I am sorry. Habits are at any rate transmissible by imitation, if ...
— Play-Making - A Manual of Craftsmanship • William Archer
... at maintaining the mobile human form in a series of examples. On the other hand, if we view the matter from above, as science and philosophy should, we may say that nutrition is but germination of a pervasive sort, that the body is a tabernacle in which the transmissible human spirit is carried for a while, a shell for the immortal seed that dwells in it and has created it. This seed, however, for rational estimation, is merely a means to the existence and happiness of individuals. Transpersonal and continuous in its own fluid being, the potential ...
— The Life of Reason • George Santayana
... this runs counter to the latest biological orthodoxy, I am sorry. Habits are at any rate transmissible by imitation, if ...
— Play-Making - A Manual of Craftsmanship • William Archer
... character of Lafayette will be appreciated at its true value throughout the civilized world. When the principle of hereditary dominion shall be extinguished in all the institutions of France; when government shall no longer be considered as property transmissible from sire to son, but as a trust committed for a limited time, and then to return to the people whence it came; as a burdensome duty to be discharged, and not as a reward to be abused; when a claim, any claim, to political ...
— The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) • Various |
