With this conception of Evolution our ordinary estimates of "higher" and "lower" are saved; also the value of our mental processes upon which rests whatever proof the theory may admit of; while the "argument from adaptability" is provided with a firm basis independent of finality.

" "Your meaning is that true friendship has as a basis equality?" "Does it not?

"Let these three important measures be adopted forthwith, that the empire may be raised on a basis imperishable for ages ...

As their united valor was adequate to all the trials of the camp and dangers of the field, so their united wisdom proved equal to the greater task of founding upon a deep and broad basis institutions which it has been our privilege to enjoy and will ever be our most sacred duty to sustain.

Of the nineteen millions of gold which in September distended the public purse, little or nothing remained in December, while in its place were paper bills,founded, not upon a basis of one-third specie, but upon a basis ofWe promise to pay!

He and I could never had got at a basis peace.

Our relations were now established upon a basis satisfactory to me.

These tears for future sorrows keep, Wives for yourselves, and children weep; That horrid day will shortly come, When you shall bless the barren womb, And breast that never infant fed; Then shall you with the mountain's head Would from this trembling basis slide, And all in tombs of ruin hide.

If thou to earth, but turn'st thy wrathful eyes, Her basis trembles, and her offspring dies.

The time was not yet come for accurate physiological investigation, or for the true birth of the scientific spirit; and in any age it would have been difficult for one man to establish on a sound basis discoveries made in so many realms as those explored by Lionardo.

All of these problems touch women as well as men; and if they are to be solved on a just as well as a broad basis women must do their share towards the solving.