To conceive of memory materially at all one must admit some sort of memory trace as the basis for the persistence of memory.

That is, a defect in the chain of co-operation, balance and compensation among the internal secretions is the basis for the weakness of the nervous system the term neurasthenia is supposed to explain, actually only names.

The various speakers impressed on their hearers the importance of Nationalism as the basis for all political thought and action.

On this account it is clear that our own existence and that of the world around us necessarily implies the presence of a Universal Mind acting on certain fixed lines of its own which establish the basis for the working of all individual minds.

This column supports the head, encloses and protects the spinal cord, and forms the basis for the attachment of many muscles, especially those which maintain the body in an erect position.

While a change may in a given year seem sufficiently pronounced to become the basis for a new classification, we should remember the literary influences never begin or end with complete abruptness.

This is very important in study, being the basis for the retentive powers of the mind.

Their separate elements did, however, and furnished the basis for Dante's clever combinations.

The events occurred forty years agothe story was only half known then, and like all such stories formed the basis for every kind of exaggeration and perversion.' 'Does Maulevrier know?' faltered Mary.

It Is a Great Time Saver, and Forms the Basis for Training and the Acquirement of Skill Once activity starts in any direction, the tendency is to persist until satisfaction is reached.

The antithesis of cognition and appetition gives the basis for the division into theoretical and practical philosophy.

The structure and functions of this condition consciousness and furnish the basis for the interpretation of mental evolution in terms of "evolution at large, regarded as a process of physical transformation.

At this time, under the reign of William, a year previous to his death, an inventory was taken of the real estate and personal property contained in the several counties of England; and this "Domesday-book," as it was called, formed the basis for subsequent taxation, etc.

It requires about twice as much pressure to tear the ends out of a boiler as it does to burst the shell, and as the weakest point is the basis for determining the safe pressure, we will make use of the shell only.

Indian rum formed the cohesive force the basis for a number of nefarious deals in shady corners.

[Footnote: Law, in his "Vincennes" (p. 32), makes the deeds of the drummer the basis for a traditional story that is somewhat too highly colored.

It is this type of tradition that furnished Dante and Milton the basis for their pictures of hell.

I took with me my MS. essay "On the Nature and Existence of God," and it served as the basis for our conversation; we found there was little difference in our views.

This difference in purpose or use serves as the basis for dividing words into eight classes, called Parts of Speech.

The main features in such a plan of reform would be as follows: (a) Assessment of all wealth by a state agency, with expert nonlocal assessors, appointed and serving only under the merit system. (b) The assessment of the value of each enterprise and body of wealth as a unit for the whole state, and apportioned to the minor divisions as the basis for levying local taxes.

Only in the past five centuries have communication, transportation, trade and tourism created the basis for an experiment in organizing and coordination of a planet-wide experiment in civilization.

Only abundant crops, dependable, season after season, provided the basis for large settled populations.

When approved by two thirds of the states represented at the constitutional convention the constitution so adopted would became the basis for world law and the administration of world affairs.

Then Faraday discovered that an electric current could be generated in a wire by the motion of a magnet, thus laying the basis for the modern dynamo.

In this spirit the Executive felt itself bound by the most imperative sense of duty to submit to Congress at its last session the propriety of making a specific pledge of the land fund as the basis for the negotiation of the loans authorized to be contracted.