But the most curious part of his information was, that a large number of them were born without any intellectual vigour, and wandered about as so many automatons, under the care of the government, until they were illuminated with the mental ray from some earthly brains, by means of the mysterious influence which the moon is known to exercise on our planet.

A large number of lunarians, it seems, are born without any intellectual vigour, and wander about like so many automatons, under the care of the government, until illumined by the mental ray, from some terrestrial brain, through the mysterious influence which the moon is known to exercise on our planet.

Visitors from America were shocked to find no Kindergartens in England, but only large classes of poor little automatons sitting erect with "hands behind" or worse still "hands on heads," and moving only to the word of command.

I noted the sentries pacing their beats before the colonel's quarters, erect, automatons, their guns a-glitter in the moonlight, their uniforms immaculate.

Head down, silent, like two grotesque automatons, they trudged on.

Peering through a kind of butler's window, he saw beyond the shrine his two pallid subordinates, like mystic automatons, nodding and smoking by the doorway.

Why shouldn't those three Shereefian officers jump to conclusions, salute like automatons and grin like loyal men who have surprised a secret and won't tell anyone but their bosom friends?

With the regularity of automatons they paraded up and down the walled enclosure without speaking, until they had thoroughly tested every single stone; no sort of success, however, rewarded their endeavours.

Seeing them now, I began to understand how an enforced docility may reduce a whole people to the level of dazed, unresisting automatons.

We were blind automatons that the fame-seeking archaeologist was dragging at his heels.

Teachers should practice what they teachNecessity of patienceMere automatons will not do for infant teachersDisadvantage of using excessive restraintA master and mistress more efficient than two mistressesObjections to the sole government of femalesToo frequent use of the divine names should be avoidedGeneral observations CHAPTER VIII.

Teachers should practice what they teachNecessity of patienceMere automatons will not do for infant teachersDisadvantage of using excessive restraintA master and mistress more efficient than two mistressesObjections to the sole government of femalesTwo frequent use of Divine names should be avoidedGeneral observations.

One would suppose, to hear the observations of some persons, that mere automatons would do for masters and mistresses.

As, however, the whole Infant System is designed to make the children think, I would urge the teachers to guard against their being automatons.

She did not try to make automatons to repeat religious commonplaces, but actual men and women, through whose very peculiarities the Holy Spirit revealed His presence and work.

And those muscular peasants would pick the children up like dolls, now by an arm, now by a leg, now by the nape of the neck, raise them to a level with the saint, that they might kiss the bronze face, and then toss them back into the arms of their mothers, working like automatons, dropping one child to seize another, with the regularity of machines in action.

Undoubtedly he was a naval officer, and all the blonde sailors that were working like automatons must also have come from some fleet.

For two days the men in the ranks had been rushed forward at this unnatural gait and were moving like automatons.

Difficult to think that 'each one had left a vacancy at a family board; difficult to think that all were not automatons in a process of endless routine of war; but not difficult to learn that they were Frenchmen once we had thrown our bombs in the midst of the group.

The same men were in attendance at the office as before; but they seemed older and their politeness that of cheerless automatons.

The sky-scraping shoe manufactories, where men, like automatons, delved night and day for a few weeks and then leaving them to semi-starvation for the rest of the year, had not yet arrived.

Most of them had heavy features, hoarse voices, flabby necks and painted eyes; and all of them, like automatons, moved simultaneously upon the same impulse, flung the same enticements with the same tone and uttered the identical queer words, the same odd inflections and the same smile.

Suppose, however, novelists could be placed in a society made up of their favorite characters,forced into real, lifelike intercourse with them;Richardson, for instance, with his Harriet Byron or Clarissa, attended by Sir Charles; Miss Burney with Lord Orville and Evelina; Miss Edgeworth with Caroline Percy, and that marvellous hero, Count Altenburg; Scott with the automatons that he called Waverley and Flora McIvor.

In the deep shadow of the prison wall a third guard joined the two ahead and like automatons they strode through the gloom with slow, measured step, their rifles held with soldierly precision.

Sanatoria, memoranda, gymnasia are now replacing sanatorium, memorandums, and gymnasiums; automata, formulae, and lacunae are taking the place of automatons, formulas, and lacunas; indices and apices of indexes and apexes, miasmata of miasmas or miasms; and even forms like lexica, rhododendra, and chimeræ have been recently noted in the writings of authors of repute.