The author of Westward Ho!, considering the Spanish and English navies of ELIZABETH'S time, found precisely the same contrasted elements of autocracy and brotherliness producing just those results that we find respectively in the German and French forces of to-dayon the one hand a mechanical perfection of command, on the other an informed equality which, somehow, does not make against efficiency whilst fostering individuality.

The huge later immigration has converged upon the great industrial centres and added merely a vast non-servile element of employees to the scheme.

His pictures of certain types, notably the weak and vicious elements of society, are accurate and true to life, but they seem to play too large a part in his books, and have perhaps too greatly influenced his general judgment of humanity.

Its owner, the color scheme of his attire emphasized by the glare of the low sun, expressed in his pose and the inquiring flicker of a smile purely the element of the casual.

The other elements of the wood shrink radially and tangentially, but almost none lengthwise or vertically as applied to the tree.

Beneath her, above her, before her, seemingly the element in which she was poised, was space, illimitable space.

It must be observed that these theories had little or nothing to do with the ideas of the old cult of Heaven or with family allegiance; on the other hand, the soldierly element, with the notion of obedience, was well suited to the militarized peoples of the west.

It was this inexplicable somethingthis unseen, mysterious element hovering in the air that caused the white youth to advance step by step, silently, cautiously, as though the slightest sound under his feet might awaken the deadliest of enemies.

We have to observe the building up of a vast empire out of strictly self-governing elements.

It lacked, surprisingly, the element of surprise.

Amid the conflicting elements afloat, our business is to make Christ our pattern and our guide.

If, indeed, the tendency of these remarks is justifiable, then unavoidably the subjective element, which is beauty, must coalesce with the objective, which is truth; and sociology mast be neither art simply, nor science in the narrow meaning of the word at all, but knowledge rendered imaginatively, and with an element of personality that is to say, in the highest sense of the term, literature.

If pain were for one single instant literally the dominant element in life, every man would be found hanging dead from his own bed-post by the morning.