It may be stated here that we are not very rigid about periods or climates, and that our long-ago people are of a generalised type.

'People are,' I generalised.

No deviation from the generalised type was possible.

The utmost capacity of the artist is now exerted, not in enforcing or refining a generalised type, but in discovering some new facial expression which shall reveal psychological quality in a particular being.

Doing so, he inevitably insists upon the face; and having formed a face expressive of some defined quality, he can hardly give to the body that generalised beauty which belongs to a Greek nymph or athlete.

He generalised his faces, composing an ideal cast of features out of several types.

It is a small but yet an interesting and significant indication that, when some years after he retouched the poem, he omitted the note, and generalised the grasshopper.

Of course, these prophecies of the writer's were made upon a basis of very generalised knowledge.

They liked the broad generalised, descriptive style of Milton, for instance, better than the closely packed style of Shakespeare, which gets its effects from a series of minute observations huddled one after the other and giving the reader, so to speak, the materials for his own impression, rather than rendering, as does Milton, the expression itself.

The word eugenics would sufficiently express the idea; it is at least a neater word and a more generalised one than viriculture, which I once ventured to use.

My own conclusion is, that an over-ready perception of sharp mental pictures is antagonistic to the acquirement of habits of highly-generalised and abstract thought, especially when the steps of reasoning are carried on by words as symbols, and that if the faculty of seeing the pictures was ever possessed by men who think hard, it is very apt to be lost by disuse.

Very occasionally an object or image will recall itself, but even then it is more like a generalised image than an individual image.

Very occasionally an object or image will recall itself, but even then it is more like a generalised image than an individual one.

This free action of a vivid visualising faculty is of much importance in connection with the higher processes of generalised thought, though it is commonly put to no such purpose, as may be easily explained by an example.

But there is no reason why it should be so, if the faculty is free in its action, and not tied to reproduce hard and persistent forms; it may then produce generalised pictures out of its past experiences quite automatically.

In illustration of these generalised mental images, let us recur to the boat, and suppose the speaker to continue as follows:"The boat was a four-oared racing-boat, it was passing quickly to the left just in front of me, and the men were bending forward to take a fresh stroke."

If the intellect be slow, though correct in its operations, the associations will be few, and the generalised image based on insufficient data.

If the visualising power be faint, the generalised image will be indistinct.

An impulse which survived because it produced one result may have persisted with modifications because it produced another result; and side by side with impulses towards specific acts we can detect in all animals vague and generalised tendencies, often overlapping and contradictory, like curiosity and shyness, sympathy and cruelty, imitation and restless activity.

"It is another instance," he generalised, "of the thing that is continually happening.

She had moods of sexual hostility, in which she generalised uncharitably about mankind.

But he generalised with much ease and perspicuity, and conducted the thread of his discourse, like a rivulet of light, through the histories of the year; transporting the mind of his audience from doings in Japan to those in America, from Poland to Mexico, and through stirring regions of Geography, Politics, Philanthropy, Social Science and Economy, by gentle and interesting transitions.

A fetish may inhabit a tree; trees being generalised, the fetish of one oak becomes the god of the forest.

It is particularly in regard to Racine's treatment of nature that this generalised style creates misunderstandings.

Voltaire's book, as its title indicates, is in effect a series of generalised reflections upon a multitude of important topics, connected together by a common point of view.