If they work from selfish motives it is inevitable that eventually there will be a clash, as there was in the past.

The religious and the race motives often go together; but in modern times on the whole (and happily) the religious motive is not so very dominant.

No one accuses him of personal corruption or of sordidly interested motives.

That would afford a sufficient motive for my killing him; and how could I prove that I did not strike the blow?" "It might be difficult," Gifford answered thoughtfully.

" Play is marked off from work chiefly by the absence of any outside pressure, and pleasure in the activity is the characteristic of play pure and simple: if a child has forced upon him a hint of any ulterior motive that may be in the mind of his teacher, the pleasure is spoilt for him and the intrinsic value of the play is lost.

I am aware indeed, in part, that I am nourishing a rival who will far surpass me; and this is an additional motive, and will be an added pleasure.'

"Surely you know their secret motive?"

Then because it is Life it must be Love, because as the undifferentiated Principle of Life it cannot do otherwise than tend to the fuller development of life in each individual, and the pure motive of giving greater enjoyment of life is Love.

Why, then, this sudden feeling in his behalf? Not, I assure you, from mercenary motives.

A conviction of this nature, if it existed, would naturally have caused him to feel impatient with any one who attempted to controvert his decisions and would tend to make him believe that improper motives induced the opposition or criticism.

The dislike that Voltaire had conceived for the Qorân from a superficial acquaintance with it, "ce livre inintelligible qui fait frémir le sens commun à chaque page," probably increased his unfavourable opinion, but the principal motive of his choice of a representative must have been that the general public still regarded Mohammed as the incarnation of fanaticism and priestcraft.

If the police and the military resign from patriotic motives, I would certainly expect them to perform the same duty as national volunteers, not has hirelings but as willing protectors of the life and liberty of their countrymen.

Keats said that, in declining the invitation, his sole motive was the consciousness, which would be ever prevalent with him, of his being, in its utter extent, not a free agent, even within such a circle as Shelley'she himself nevertheless being the most unrestricted of beings.'

That no man will labour to no purpose, or undergo the fatigue of military vigilance, without an adequate motive; that no man will endeavour to learn superfluous duties, and neglect the easiest road to honour and to wealth, merely for the sake of encountering difficulties, is easily to be imagined.

Worthy motives are not punished at the Naval Academy, Mr. Darrin.

They joined the Kureisch for mixed motives, chiefly political, for they hoped to make themselves and their religion secure by alliance with Mahomet's enemies.

And these unworthy motives and inhuman characteristics again spring obviously out of the mean and materialistic ideals of life which still have sway among usthe ideals of wealth and luxury and displayof which the horrors of war are the sure and certain obverse.

Monmouth had disappeared, but, actuated by the same generous motive with Essex, he sent a message to Russell, on hearing of his arrest, that "he would surrender himself and share his fate, if his doing so could he of use to him."

But all Indians have something like a sentiment of reverence for the insane, and admire those who sacrifice, without apparent motive, their worldly welfare to the triumph of an idea.

Why? There was, I felt convinced, some hidden motive in all that sudden and marked friendliness.

They said no more that day about lightening the load, but with a double motive they made enormous inroads upon their provisions.

} "Sir: I have the honor to communicate to you a letter from a distinguished citizen of my own country, together with a correspondence relating to a subject in which Denmark and the United States appear somewhat equally interested, the former in furnishing a laudable motive, and the latter as happily achieving the object.

"If we single men have no wives and children of our own to fight for, Strides," observed Joyce, with a little military stiffness, "we have the wife and children of captain Willoughby; no man who wishes to sell his life dearly, need look for a better motive.

I concede to you conscientious motives in what you do.

There was some reasonsome distinct and serious motive in it.