Quite recently, on the eve of the present war, we were formally given to understand that Germany, in any war with France, might annex French colonies; and it is easy to see how such an object would reconcile the divergent policies of the German military and naval experts.

We have already shown (Chap. II) how Italy became a member of the Triple Alliance, and how, in spite of its apparent frailty and of the somewhat divergent aims of its members, that alliance has endured for thirty-two years.

From the other Major Prophets Justin has only three exact quotations, four slightly divergent, and eleven diverging more widely.

In the divergent quotation Mark xii.

We must not ignore the other theory, that all three writers had before them and may have used independently a divergent text of the Septuagint.

Unlike other trees that send up a single undivided shaft, the Elm, when growing in the forest as well as in the open plain, becomes subdivided into several slightly divergent branches, running up almost perpendicularly until they reach the level of the wood, when they suddenly spread themselves out, and the tree exhibits the parasol shape more nearly even than the Palm.

This change from the simplicity of the founder's religious teaching to a system of practical morality often wholly divergent from primitive doctrine, is a transformation which all the great religions of the world have undergone.

But orthodoxy controls the divergent elements: it opposes any open avowal of the logical conclusion, which would identify "God" and the "ego," but in practice this group of ideas, pantheistic in all but name, has been received and given a place side by side with the strict monotheism of the Qoran and with the dogmatic theology.

Preparations for war in this way follow definite lines, which are dictated by necessity and circumstances; but it is evident that a wide scope is still left for varieties of personal opinion, especially where the discussion includes the positive duties of the State, which may lead to an energetic foreign policy, and thus possibly to an offensive war, and where very divergent views exist as to the preparation for war.

Very divergent ideas may be entertained on this subject, and the difficulties of carrying out the scheme need extensive consideration.

These heterogeneous elements with their divergent cultures failed in the long run to hold together in this long but extremely narrow strip of territory, which was almost incapable of military defence.

But the views which they took on the subject were so obscurely divergent that all I could gather from the debate was that in some way or other the measure was intended to be a nasty knock for German trade.

But the pretence failed altogether; for it was evident that the leaders on either side, so far from leading in divergent directions, were much closer to each other than to their own followers.

The Ponsonby household is perhaps one of the most "difficult" on the Bluffs, because its members are of widely divergent ages.

Bzz ..." "The best thing I can do," said Redwood, following out some divergent line of thought, "is to teach him myself.

But every system has its natural and specific danger, and the specific English danger, as it is the condition of vigorous English life, is that spirit of liberty which allows and attempts to combine very divergent tendencies of opinion.

"The Church of England," Mr. Gladstone thinks, "has been peculiarly liable, on the one side and on the other, both to attack and to defection, and the probable cause is to be found in the degree in which, whether for worldly or for religious reasons, it was attempted in her case to combine divergent elements within her borders."

New directions; an annual exhibition gallery of divergent literary trends.

Social planning at the planetary level could deal chiefly with large national or regional groupings, more or less divergent in viewpoint but conscious of the necessity for bringing local and regional groups together in order to secure common agreement and to take part in directed joint actions.

5. S. subcarinata, n. sp. Cells tubular, upper half divergent, ascending.

6. S. patula, n. sp. Cells tubular, upper third free, divergent ascending.

7. S. Orthogonia, n. sp. Cells tubular, nearly half free, divergent laterally at a right angle.

8. S. mutulata, n. sp. Cells compressed or flattened, from side to side; sometimes angular, lower half adnate, upper half divergent, projecting like a bracket.

Cells urceolate, much contracted towards the mouth; upper half free, divergent, projecting laterally almost horizontally; mouth small elliptical, with the long axis looking directly outwards; two lateral teeth.

The pairs of cells on the pinnae are all secund, and in contact with each other at their bases, though widely divergent above.