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That God is love; and that love, which as an affection, produces an affective unity between separate persons, can as the subsistent and primal unity produce a substantial and ineffable union of which the other is a shadow, is a view towards which revelation points.

As a result of my close acquaintance with this band of primates, I feel more keenly than ever before the necessity of taking into account, in connection with all experimental analyses of behavior, the temperamental characteristics, experience, and affective peculiarities of individuals.

The presumption is that the sound of the lock-bar, associated as it was with his painful experience in box 1, revived the strongly affective experience of stepping on the nail.

He apparently had regained his affective poise and was able to attend as formerly to the task of locating his rewards.

An additional evidence of his changed affective attitude toward his task, especially in connection with definite failures, appeared in his rough handling and biting of the boxes.

Only an organism of complexly constituted nervous system and fairly highly developed affective life could be expected to respond as did this monkey.

It is not only optimism and pessimism, determinism and indeterminism, that have their ultimate roots in the affective side of our nature, but pantheism and individualism, also idealism and materialism, even rationalism and sensationalism.

Religion is piety, an affective, not an objective, consciousness.

There might even be a plausible defence set up for it, if it sprang from that formulated distrust of the energetic rational judgment in comparison with the emotional, affective, contemplative parts of man, which underlies the various forms of religious mysticism.

The sensitive is also called the vital, the mental, the reflective, and the moral the affective state.

effective 2507 occurrences

an old beau of mine; show him up," and scampering off to the mirror, she gave a hasty glance, to see that every curl was in its effective position.

It seems to be, even in master hands, that species of composition which is at once the most artificial and the least effective, which bears the appearance of the greatest labour and produces the least pleasure.

Like many other rock-loving species, it produces spores in abundance, having no other effective means of spreading, and its fertile fronds are much more numerous than the sterile ones, and begin to fruit when very small.

The Chinese fought the Turks several times; but much more effective results were gained by their diplomatic missions, which incited the eastern against the western Turks and vice versa, and also incited the Turks against the Toba clique.

An effective Turkestan policy was, however, impossible so long as the Turks were still a formidable power.

They had but little success to show, as they did not remain in power long enough and, owing to the strong opposition, they were never able to make their control really effective.

Mules, mainly bred in Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri, largely replaced the less effective horses and oxen; the introduction of horizontal plowing with occasional balks and hillside ditches, checked the washing of the Piedmont soils; the use of fertilizers became fairly common; and cotton seed was better selected.

By employing squads of immigrant Irishmen for ditching and other severe work he kept his literally precious negroes, well housed and fed, in fit condition for effective routine under his well selected staff of overseers.

But for this prospect to be effective the tasks had to be so limited that every laborer might have the hope of an hour or two's release as the fruit of diligence.

Customary plenty in meat and vegetables, he said, would not only remove occasions for pilfering, but would give the master effective power to discourage it; for upon discovering the loss of any goods by theft he might put his whole force of slaves upon a limited diet for a time and thus suggest to the thief that on any future occasion his fellows would be under pressure to inform on him as a means of relieving their own privations.

In either case the rampant emotionalism, effective enough among the whites, was with the negroes a perfect contagion.

The device of hiring slaves to themselves, which had an invigorating effect here and there in the towns, could find little application in the country; and the paternalism of the planters could provide no fully effective substitute.

It is accordingly a maxim of slave management in slave-importing countries, that the most effective economy is that which takes out of the human chattel in the shortest space of time the utmost amount of exertion it is capable of putting forth.

His voice is pleasant, and his utterance deliberate and effective.

In reality, however, the meeting of the two queens, while theatrically very effective, is not the true climax of the play.

For faith in God is effective because it is accompanied with faith in man as the child of God.

His speaking was in a kind of monotone, but his straightforward plainness never failed to be effective.

GOUGH, HARRY B. Effective speech, a textbook for beginning courses.

GOUGH, HARRY P. Effective speech.

Winston, Inc. (PPW of J. L. Street); 6Dec61; R286252. KIRKPATRICK, ANNIS K. Mental hygiene for effective living.

SEE Kirkpatrick, Edwin A. KIRKPATRICK, EDWIN A. Mental hygiene for effective living.

BERRY, ETHEL GWINN. Effective business English.

KING, CLARENCE. Social agency boards and how to make them effective.

The first of these methods is most effective.

Multiplied inspirations can be tolerated on the strength of emotion, but they should be made as effective as possible.

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