It may be practically admitted that no philosophy allows of strict demonstration, since, being a conception of the totality of things, it modifies our understanding of every principle by which one might attempt to prove or disprove it.

Hence any part is somewhat falsely apprehended till the whole be apprehended, when we are dealing with organic as opposed to mechanical totalities.

To "explain" is in one way or another to liken the less known to what is better known; and thus every philosophy is an attempt to expressby means of sundry extensions and limitationsthe universe of our experience in the terms of some totality with which we are more familiar; plainly, it is also an endeavour to express the greater in terms of the less, and must therefore be almost infinitely inadequate even at the best.

That there are grades of reality; that "substance is more real than quality and subject is more real than substance," that "the most real of all is the concrete totality, the all-inclusive universal"the Ens determinatissimum, is not a modern discovery, but a re-discovery.

It determines the embryonic etchings of the different organs which in their totality comprise the unique individual.

The important point of this distinction is that if we can conceive of anything as entirely devoid of the element of extension in space, it must be present in its entire totality anywhere and everywherethat is to say, at every point of space simultaneously.

If, then, the highest work of the greatest minds consists in nothing else than the recognition of an already existing order, there is no getting away from the conclusion that a paramount intelligence must be inherent in the Life-Principle, which manifests itself as this order; and thus we see that there must be a great cosmic intelligence underlying the totality of things.

M. Flaubert read in fragments, and even in totality, to friends holding high places in the world of letters, the pages which he hoped some day to print, and I assure you that not one of them has been offended by what has just now excited such lively severity on the part of the Government Attorney.

This reform of the centuries, which perhaps in its totality proceeded likewise from Flaminius, was the first important constitutional change which the new opposition wrung from the nobility, the first victory of the democracy proper.

" Does this mean that the totality of matter is finite?that it can be viewed, spiritually, from the outside,even from such a distance as to appear infinitely small?

In the anger of my heart, I hastily marched against the town of Markasi, with my chariots and horsemen, who followed on my steps, I treated Muttallu, his son and the families of the country of Bit-Pa'alla in its totality, as captives, and seized as booty the gold and silver and the numberless treasures of his palace.

To speak at this rate is building castles in the air, and imposing vain imaginations on the belief of others; for who has told these philosophers that the mass of matter has ever the same motion in its totality?

Experience is the totality of perceptions retained in memory, together with a certain foresight of the future after the analogy of the past.

It denotes, according to him, the connected sum of the modes, the itself non-finite sum total of the finitethe universe meaning the totality of individual things in general (without reference to their nature as extended or cogitative); rest and motion, the totality of material being; the absolutely infinite understanding, the totality of spiritual being or the ideas.

It denotes, according to him, the connected sum of the modes, the itself non-finite sum total of the finitethe universe meaning the totality of individual things in general (without reference to their nature as extended or cogitative); rest and motion, the totality of material being; the absolutely infinite understanding, the totality of spiritual being or the ideas.

It denotes, according to him, the connected sum of the modes, the itself non-finite sum total of the finitethe universe meaning the totality of individual things in general (without reference to their nature as extended or cogitative); rest and motion, the totality of material being; the absolutely infinite understanding, the totality of spiritual being or the ideas.

The totality of these nobler impulses is called fortitudo (fortitude), and a distinction is made among them between animositas (vigor of soul) and generositas (magnanimity, noble-mindedness), according as rational desire is directed to the preservation of our own being or to aiding our fellow-men.

If others are her superiors in some directions, in the totality of her powers she surpasses all.

But when we wish particularly to get an idea of the chief features of a country, its fixed outlines, its general conformation, its special aspects, its great roads, we mount the heights; we place ourselves at points whence we can best take in the totality and the physiognomy of the landscape.

Great events and great men are the fixed points and the peaks of history; and it is thence that we can observe it in its totality, and follow it along its highways.

Taking the history of France in its totality and in all its phases, the third estate has been the most active and most decisive element in French civilization.

The Parliament followed up this strange retractation with a series of wise and far-sighted requests touching the totality of the public administration.

In its totality and on many points it likewise contained in the germ the principles of new France.

Today western civilization in its totality faces that dilemma.

But in the history of the world, the individuals we have to do with are peoples, totalities that are States.