Now the new physical theories only ask us, it seems to me, to extend this conception to the whole universe: to believe that not individuals merely, but whole varieties and races, the total organised life on this planet, and it may be the total organisation of the universe, have been evolved just as our bodies are, by natural laws acting through circumstance.

At the same time it is strictly individual, for it is the Spirit of Individuality, and is thus to be distinguished from that merely generic race-personality which makes us human beings at all.

Many States have purely individual problems that do not concern the other States and do not come in conflict with them, but even in these the Governors may gain an occasional incidental sidelight of illumination from the informal discussion in a conference that may make thinking clearer and action wiser.

He was a portly individual of middle age, and was still eminently handsome.

"That is a matter so intensely individual," he replied.

Political organization is necessary in order to co-operation for ends which benefit the society directly, and the individual only indirectly.

This does not imply that I liked them better or admired them more than the others, but there was something about both of them more instantaneously individual and audacious than it is possible to describe.

So what we have to discuss is, not wrongs which individuals intentionally doI do not believe there are a great many of thosebut the wrongs of the system.

Like the hailing, however, it is markedly individual in its pleasing combinations of tones.

For our psychology stops at that part of self which emerges from the soil, noting minutely individual differences, but forgetting that this is only the top of the plant, that nine-tenths are buried, the feet held by those of other plants.

The chief point of difference appears to be that Miss TAYLOR'S heroine, Janet, and her friends (all pleasantly individual) are naturally thrown a good deal more upon themselves than is the case with their more fortunate brothers.

The stranger was a tall, scraggly individual, dressed in the usual flannel shirt and blue jeans, the latter tucked into rusty cowhide boots.

All her likenesses are singularly individual, and we realize their character at a glance.

His style has a strikingly individual stamp, which is marked far more by strength than by beauty.

And sure enough nearly a week later, on Tuesday, the 16th, at about 1 p.m., the same shabbily dressed individual called and asked for his umbrella.

Single, specially obnoxious, or timid individuals, undoubtedly, from time to time, took refuge in them, and may have remained within them for a considerable period.

In fine, this sentiment of paternity, which gave his pen a delicately feminine quality, lent to his prose a characteristically individual accent discernible among all the clerical literature.

Not that she was in any way a great genius, but she had a certain indefinable and winningly individual quality.

They are decidedly individual in character.

The description of Lasselia, for instance, contains no trait that is particular, no characteristic definitely individual.

There is little that is distinguishingly individual in them.

But the entire wealth of inner experience, in its most exclusively individual sense, was first revealed, not only to the literature of Germany but to modern literature in general, by Klopstock.