It is very curious that the universality of an opinion should have so much weight with people, as their own experience might tell them that its acceptance is an entirely thoughtless and merely imitative process.

" Actors, like poets, have provincial parodists of their styles in even greater numbers, so adoringly imitative is humanity.

She could, by a religious effort of volition, make of herself an excellent clerk, eagerly imitative and mechanical, but she had an instinctive antipathy to the higher forms of business.

The genius of Sir Walter is essentially imitative, or "denotes a foregone conclusion:" that of Lord Byron is self-dependent; or at least requires no aid, is governed by no law, but

How instinctively imitative is crime!

Witmer (1910) reports, in confirmation of Haggerty's results, intelligently imitative behavior in P. irus.

But his treatment of the subject was too palpably imitative of one poetic model, already stale from repetition.

Undine was fiercely independent and yet passionately imitative.

One particularly might be mentionedthe chorus in "Judah" (Haydn), "The Lord devoureth them all," which is admirably imitative of the reverberations of the cataract and the thundering of mighty waters.

"They are nearly all musical, and wonderfully imitative," answered he.