Between England and Spain, for example, or between France and Austria, there has never been such utter political severance as existed normally between Greece and Persia, or Rome and Carthage.

" At the bottom of his soul, and in the innermost sanctuary of his conscience, Bossuet felt his weakness; he saw the apostolic severance from the world, the apostolic zeal and fervor required for the holy crusade he had undertaken.

The security of the British monarchy lies in such a courageous severance of its destinies from the Teutonic dynastic system.

Will you have happiness, then, and an eternal severance between you and me?"

It is, I suppose, the poetry in my nature welling to the surface the moment that inhibitions are removed, for when I think about the impending severance from my dear wife I more or less lose control of myselfYou see, she takes an active interest in my work, and that does not do with a creative artist in any line.

Henry's leaving home, though it had been originally the suggestion of violent feeling, was not to be an actual severance.

So long as the intellect is in the service of the will, that which has no relation to the will does not exist for the intellect; but along with this partial severance of the two there comes a new power of perception, synthetic in its nature, a complex of relationships not reproducible in linear thought, for the mind is oriented simultaneously in many different directions.

Nor did Mr. Carley, for his part, appear to dislike this tacit severance between his daughter and himself.

The same hastiness of thought which moved him to a wholesale, indiscriminate condemnation of metaphysics, led him to conclude that because hitherto no happy adjustment of the relations between Church and State had been devised, there could be no remedy save in their total severance.

Even under the most spiritual interpretation we could offerthat, shall we say, of those today who try to run with the hare of religion and hunt with the hounds of rationalistic materialismmatter and spirit unite in man as body and soul, and in the Sacraments as the vehicle and the essence, but temporally and temporarily; doomed always to ultimate severance by death in the one case, by the completion of the sacramental process in the other.

Yet although the ox has so little affection for, or individual interest in, his fellows, he cannot endure even a momentary severance from his herd.