But this spontaneous grouping into "kinds" is the first essay of the human mind at classification, or the calling by a common name of those things that are alike, and the arranging them in such a manner as best to suggest the sum of their likenesses and unlikenesses to other things.

Pearl thought she was listening to the fanciful tales with which a lonely woman beguiled the weary hours for her little son It was a weirdly extravagant fairy story, and yet it fascinated Pearl in spite of it's unlikeness to truth.

Again, each organism analyzed apart shows, in the likenesses obscured by unlikenesses of its component parts, a peculiarity which can be ascribed only to the formation of a more heterogeneous organism out of a more homogeneous one.

Thus, in spite of Reuben Miller's deep love for his children, he was never at ease in his boys' presence; and, as they grew older, nothing but the influence of their mother's respect for their father prevented their having an impatient contempt for his unlikeness to the busy, active, thrifty farmers of the neighborhood.

Yet a comparison of the novel with the classical and pure forms of literature will show its unlikeness to them in design, dignity, and essential quality.

A contrast of any page of an epic with one of a romance will show their essential unlikeness.

They had just met before, in the South; but they had yet to learn to know each other; and there was sufficient unlikeness between them to render this a work of some time and pains.

She felt his unlikeness to another man, when she saw that he had no thought of any eyes that might be upon himself.

We can make but the briefest reference to the points of contrast and unlikeness between the two things, after asserting that they have no one common feature.

One small discordance overweighs a multitude of similarities and suggests a general unlikeness; just as a single syllable in a sentence pronounced with a foreign accent makes one cease to look upon the speaker as a countryman.

Harmony in Unlikeness.

Can we, however, acquire a political emotion based, not upon a belief in the likeness of individual human beings, but upon the recognition of their unlikeness?

Between man and the lower orders of life there is a line of likeness; there is also from the beginning a line of unlikeness.

In the home, in society, and in the state in which both home and society are set and protected, the line of likeness grows less and less distinct, while the line of unlikeness becomes bolder and plainer.

There being no producible reason why a new event should be like the hitherto course of nature, no decision of reason is contradicted by its unlikeness.

The weight, then, of the objection of unlikeness to experience depends on the reason which can be produced for the expectation of likeness; and to this call philosophy has replied by the summary confession that we have no reason.

Land of unlikeness.

Land of unlikeness.

Mary was sorry for Gwenda because of her inscrutability and unlikeness.

She was not like Alice and in her unlikeness she lacked some of Alice's resources.

Gwenda did not know why her fierceness was appeased by this unlikeness, nor why she wanted to see Mary and nothing but Mary in Rowcliffe's children, nor why she refused to think of them as his; she only knew that to see Rowcliffe in Mary's children would have been more than her flesh and blood could bear.

The first impression that New Orleans gives a stranger is its unlikeness to Northern cities.

But when two brothers who are much alike as young men, become unlike in later life, we shall find that the unlikeness is produced by superficial differences and that the essential likeness remains.

Is not the difference here as wide as the widest unlikenesses in human belief?

I was strongly drawn toward Simon Newcomb by his unlikeness to myself.