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...he existence of a designer or a design. Complexity does not imply the existence of intelligence and sentient beings. On the contrary, complexity us... ...plexity usually points towards a natural source and a random origin. Complexity and artificiality are often incompatible. Artificial designs and ob... ...) contexts and environments. Natural objects are totally predictable and expected. Artificial creations are efficient and, therefore, simple and pa... ... range. No intelligent engineer - human or not - would be so wasteful. Confusing artificiality with complexity is not the only terminological con... ...to numerous theoretical and philosophical complications. Consider life. In human (artificial and intelligent) technology, every thing and every ac... ... when not sentient, or intelligent. Must intuition and creativity be predicated on intelligence, consciousness, or sentience? Thus, ultimately, com... ...tion between functional (operational) and structural information is superfluous and artificial. There is a magnitude bias here: being creatures of t... ...s is totally inapplicable philosophically and practically. There is a continuum of intelligence quotients (I.Q.s) and, yet, the gifted person is no... ...iverse is so complex and diverse that surely it entails the existence of a supreme intelligence, the world's designer and creator, known by some as...

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...hypothesis, a natural phenomnon, with no exceptional character, while the artificial transformation of matter into anti-matter, the dream of the phy... ...concepts, including that of the rational entity, must not be deemed as an artificial construction, as long as it proves necessary (the principle of t... ... for example, that genetic engineering go as far as human cloning or that artificial intelligence become self-reproductive*. The scientific activity ... ...e, that genetic engineering go as far as human cloning or that artificial intelligence become self-reproductive*. The scientific activity in the atom... ...y - is also confirmed by Kant in his famous advice: <Dare to use your own intelligence!>, and by his entire work that sets up criticism as a method ... ... means, but does not exclude the possibility of some ″transformations″ by artificial means also posing the problem of the oportuneness of such an ex... ...l as the lack of guarantee for avoiding any risk, make any experiment for artificial turning of matter into antimatter, a profoundly immoral gesture... ...ence validated by the divine judgement. Pg. artificial self-reproductive intelligence – non-biologic entitative extension, capable to logically rat...

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...es upon several themes: mathematics, science, computers, quantum physics, and artificial intelligence. Two oth- er books of Satinover’s became bestse... ...eral themes: mathematics, science, computers, quantum physics, and artificial intelligence. Two oth- er books of Satinover’s became bestsellers: Crac...

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...usion. So, we hope that this second volume on DSmT will continue to stir up some interests to researchers and engineers working in data fusion and in artificial intelligence....

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...tions of this new theory. We hope that this first book on DSmT will stir up some interests to researchers and engineers working in data fusion and in artificial intelligence. Many simple but didactic examples are proposed throughout the book. As a young emerging theory, DSmT is probably not exempt from improvements and its development will continue to evolve over the years...

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...s in areas such as control systems, expert systems, inference engines and artificial intelligence. Many devices, such as automobiles, appliances, el... ...such as control systems, expert systems, inference engines and artificial intelligence. Many devices, such as automobiles, appliances, elevators, tr...

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... in the past due to homogeneity, to an ease in public in the future due to intelligence and good breeding, and in Utopia that transition will be com- ... ...ualitative and quantitative questions, to temper good intentions with good intelligence, and righteousness with wisdom. One of the darkest evils of ou... ...at all! Y ou forget his natural vanity!” He was particularly severe on our artificial hoofs, as he called our boots, and our hats or hair destructors.... ...we exalt this and favour that, and degrade and seclude that; we make birth artificial, life artificial, death artificial.” “You say We ,” said I, with... ...ttendance! No doubt—but a natural death. A natural death is better than an artificial life, surely? That’s—to be frank with you—the very citadel of my... ...ground by a number of inexperienced men, “you prefer a natural death to an artificial life. But what is your definition (stress) of artificial? …” And... ...anical sort for those who were incapable of doing the things that required intelligence. Nec- essarily this employment by the State would be a relief ... ...imber, pins, nails, plain fabrics of cotton and linen, paper, sheet glass, artificial fuel, and so on; new roads could be made and public buildings re... ...on, with the onset of theological differences, and the loss of its guiding intelligence. The Anglo-Saxon spirit, it has been said by one of the ablest...

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...act. For the farmer’s life is natural and simple; but the prince’s is both artificial and complicated. It is easy to do right in the one, and exceedin... ... must look closely to himself. The husband’s, like the prince’s, is a very artificial standing; and it is hard to be kind in either. Do you follow tha... ...ation; yours has been the wrong. Y ou, if you have studied my writing with intelligence, owe me a large debt of gratitude. And to conclude, as I have ... ...were every- where cheered – and with that addition all becomes politi- cal intelligence.’ ‘Let us change the subject,’ said Otto. ‘I was about to prop... ...orward and smiled upon her husband with a sweet- ness that was insultingly artificial. ‘Frederic,’ she lisped, ‘you are late.’ It was a scene of high ...

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...described was ever taken. Imme diately behind the house the hill rises in artificial terraces, which, during the romancer’s residence, were grassy an... ...st studious young men, was overfond of the fireside, and of making life as artificial as he could, by fireside heat and lamplight, in order to suit it... ...al as he could, by fireside heat and lamplight, in order to suit it to the artificial, intellectual, and moral atmosphere which he derived from books,... ...nformation of him who, of all men in the neighborhood, knew nothing of the intelligence afloat; but it showed a certain importance that Septimius had ... ...llect of his scholar. Perhaps, thought Septimius, another deep and earnest intelligence added to these two may bring the precious recipe to still grea... ... of coffer, of which diligence and insight should be the key, and the keen intelligence with which the meaning was sought should be the test of the se...

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...eed; and though I was quite too young to comprehend the full import of the intelligence, and mostly spent my childhood days in gleesome sports with th... ...ERE NO PROTECTION TO THE SLAVE—ABSOLUTE POWER OF THE OVERSEER— NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL CHARMS OF THE PLACE—ITS BUSINESS-LIKE APPEARANCE—SU- PERSTITION ... ... could not give his black playmates his company, with- out giving them his intelligence, as well. Without knowing this, or caring about it, at the tim... ...l crevices, the very secrets of his heart. Slaveholders ever underrate the intelligence with which they have to grapple. I really understood the old m... ...My Freedom joy. I never shall forget the ecstacy with which I received the intelligence from my friend, Miss Lucretia, that my old mas- ter had determ... ...d to keep me in ignorance, only rendered me the more reso- lute in seeking intelligence. In learning to read, therefore, I am not sure that I do not o... ... aspect. The mass of the buildings were wood; they had never en- joyed the artificial adornment of paint, and time and storms had worn off the bright ...

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...m-eyed as to miss in the befogged respect- ability of their newspapers the intelligence of vari- ous native risings in the Eastern Archipelago. Sun- s... ...- cated and intelligent. Who doesn’t? But his connec- tions, education and intelligence were strictly on a par with those of the men with whom he did ... ...the window panes behind the lowered blinds, and be- low, far below, in the artificial abyss of the square, the deadened roll of wheels and the splashy... ...t all. He’s useful, certainly, that’s why I . . . I thought you had enough intelligence to see it. . . . And you . . . No! It’s incredible! What did h...

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...ower and lower down in the social scale, if those who preside over them will be very careful on two heads: firstly, not to dispar- age the places in w... ... cion will attach to my evidence that it is an admirable force. Besides that it is composed, without favour, of the best men that can be picked, it is... ...rmness, ‘That instruction would place them under an omnibus; you had better confine your attention to yourself—you will want it all;’ and has driven h... ...ar plea- sure, a primitive state of manners to have superseded the baneful influences of ultra civilisation. Nothing can surpass the innocence of the ... ...a few weeks, and consigned him to a trusty English cap- tain, to be conveyed to the Port of London by sea. While the Bottle was on his voyage to Engla... ...was very moving. It certainly did not impress me by any beauty that it had, and if I ever see it again in another world I shall only know it by the he... ...bull’s bath-towel. Titbull’s Alms-Houses are in the east of London, in a great highway, in a poor, busy, and thronged neighbourhood. Old iron and frie...

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... name. Y ou see, my name happens to be Powell too.” It was clear that this intelligence was not imparted to us for social purposes. It required no ack... ...design in the majority of marriages; but they are none the worse for that. Intelligence leads people astray as far as passion sometimes. I know you ar... ...at to understand everything is not good for the intellect. A well- stocked intelligence weakens the impulse to action; an over- stocked one leads gent... ...e how- ever that even in the Priory days she had suspected her of being an artificial, heartless, vulgar-minded woman with the lowest possible ideals.... ...uld stand out against the infatuation of the whole world. He hadn’t enough intelligence for that. But to look at him one couldn’t tell ….” “Y ou did s... ...inal type of face; which I knew was untrue. The sentence was pronounced by artificial light in a stifling poisonous atmosphere. Something edifying was... ...is humiliating to confess a failure. One would think that a man of average intelligence could command stupidity at will. But it isn’t so. I suppose it... ...s, thrown over the sombre immen- sity of walls, closed round him, with its artificial brilliance over- hung by an emphatic blackness, its unnatural an...

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...emselves on a matter in hand. Repressed by religious devotion, her natural intelligence exercised itself within the limits marked out by cases of cons... ...Balzac pacities and faculties necessary in those who were to exam- ine the intelligence, aptitude for labor, and sound health of the applicants for go... ...-Francois Minard. Minard had married for love the daughter of a porter, an artificial-flower maker employed by Mademoiselle Godard. Zelie Lorrain, a p... ...is Courier and a friend of Michael Chrestien, he looked to time and public intelligence to bring about the triumph of his opinions from end to end of ... ...elf on exhibition, as it were, which proved that he was not without social intelligence. “My dear,” said the Marquise d’Espard to the Comtesse Feraud,...

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...stance beneath the bend, and permitting the latter to touch the water, the artificial little thicket had not the appearance of growing in the stream, ... ... aside, in order to walk with greater ease to himself and came so near the artificial plantation that he might have touched it with his hand. Still he... ...e Indian, who had actually got several feet lower down the stream than the artificial cover, suddenly stopped; fastened a keen-riveted glance among th... ...r!” said one from be- 55 James Fenimore Cooper low, who stood so near the artificial cover of the fugitives, that he might have been struck by the sa... ... who look for an object that has been lost. In this manner they passed the artificial screen, and Pathfinder opened his mouth in that hearty but noise... ...Cooper the reward of his services. Pathfinder communicated no more of this intelligence to his companions than he thought might relieve their apprehen... ...ient, it was not quicker or more ready than that of the Tuscarora. With an intelligence that denoted some familiarity with vessels, he had seized his ... ...nder table which Mabel had prepared for him, he opened the bud- get of his intelligence. “Y ou are likely to be of some use here, my child,” the old s... ...out. Long and painfully melancholy hours passed, during which Mabel had no intelligence from June. She heard the yells of the savages, for liquor had ...

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... to noble feelings; lips which spoke to the heart and proclaimed the man’s intelligence and lucidity, a gift of sec- ond-sight, and a heavenly temper;... ...al prod- 22 The Commission in Lunacy uct. Against the wall hung frames of artificial flowers, and decorations in which Popinot’s initials were surrou...

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...waved the light over the whole, as if to typify the light of his scholarly intelligence, and then put it down on the table and stood behind it looking... ...e over the little counter, and holds it down towards the legs, natural and artificial, of Mr Wegg. ‘T o be sure!’ he says, then. ‘How do you do?’ ‘Weg... ...er drooping lid up, and look more uniform. But pe- rennial youth is in her artificial flowers, and her list of lovers is full. ‘Mortimer, you wretch,’... ...proached my respected father by candlelight, as a theme requiring a little artificial brilliancy; but we will take him by twilight, enlivened with a g... ... ‘They burn sherry very well here,’ said Mr Inspector, as a piece of local intelligence. ‘Perhaps you gentlemen might like a bottle?’ The answer being...

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...mean?” answered Balthazar, turning quickly, and casting a look of reviving intelligence upon his wife, which fell upon her like a thunderbolt. “Forgiv... ... for some unknown reason, has in- troduced into it sensation, instinct, or intelligence (three marked stages of the organic system), these three agenc... ...r- tion to the result obtained. Man, who represents the high- est point of intelligence, and who offers us the only organ- ism by which we arrive at a... ...s a painful evening; every one was embarrassed and smiled vaguely with the artificial gaiety which hides such real anxieties. Marguerite and Balthazar...

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...real, thanks to their affiliation to the great Balzac, who had invented an artificial reality which was as much bet- ter than the vulgar article as mo... ...al knowledge, and yet remaining essentially of the people, and showing his intelligence with a kind of ferocity, of defiance. Such a personage helps o... ...e name I for- get, who is described as having devoted all his time and his intelligence to collecting the objects by which the. visitor is surrounded....

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...adiant. The count 104 The Lily of the Valley was appearing to be a man of intelligence, a good administra- tor, an excellent agriculturist; she playe... ...re she feels in supporting the weak against the strong, and in leading the intelligence of the heart to victory over the brutality of matter; but soci... ...ity flattered, and received me at last as a son. But their feeling was too artificial, I might say false, to let their present treatment have much inf... ...ion, hollow as those of an old man and, oh, fatal sign, full of precocious intelligence contrasting with his physical debility. When I look at my pret...

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...now claimed fellowship for Roderick—the spirits with a deep relish for the artificial element in life and the infinite superpositions of history. It i... ..., the Aristides, the bronzes, the Pompeian frescoes, with such a beautiful intelligence that doubt of the ultimate future seemed blasphemy. I walked b... ...e sounds that came in from the street. Rowland felt, in all this, that her intelligence, here, would have a great un- folding. He wished immensely he ... ... the sharp, grotesque note of a barking dog. Their eyes met in a glance of intelligence. “There is the sorceress!” said Madame Grandoni. “The sorceres... ...nestness. “I like to say that, I like to be able to say it. She ‘s full of intelligence and courage and devo- tion. She does n’t do me a grain of just...

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...orentin Smarandache, presented as poster at SWIFT 2008 - Skovde Workshop on Information Fusion Topics, Sweden; published in "International Journal of Artificial Intelligence", Vol. 3, No. A09, 79-85, Autumn 2009................................363 47. Discounting Method for Multi-Criteria Decision Making (_-D MCDM), by Florentin Smarandache....................369 NEUTROS...

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...en laws of his country. I must haste to ap- prise him of this heartrending intelligence.” As T ressilian, thus conversing with himself, approached to ... ... walk to hell at her father’s elbow. But indirectly thou mightst gain some intelligence of her?” “And so I did, Master Varney,” answered Foster; “and ... ...r Majesty was minded to erect the town into a Staple for wool. This joyful intelligence was received with the acclamations not only of the better sort... ...st attempt to get back the good man’s child, so far as being your faithful intelligencer can serve. And as I shall be true to you, I pray you to be tr... ...le was, on the south and west sides, adorned and defended by a lake partly artificial, across which Leicester had constructed a stately bridge, that E... ...mon size. Amidst her long, silky black hair she wore a crown or chaplet of artificial mistletoe, and bore in her hand a rod of ebony tipped with silve... ...ly darkness, and then to sink down to earth, like the base refuse of those artificial fires with which men emulate your rays?” He looked on the heaven... ...erwards, when the small apartment was at once enlightened by the shower of artificial fires with which the air was suddenly filled, and which crossed ... ...r- ful. The magnificent towers of the Castle were enveloped in garlands of artificial fire, or shrouded with tiaras of pale smoke. The surface of the ...

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...r Arthur’ that the young lady looked well and happy, or some such cheerful intelligence. I dare say he wanted to be forgotten, but I shouldn’t think h... ... the old chap’s wife went up to the invalid. She brought down the scrap of intelligence I’ve told you of. He was already too far gone to be cross-exam... ... a young lady fresh from the thick twilight of four million people and the artificiality of several London seasons; he the man of definite conquering ... ...nd not knowing the immense joy in store for him to-morrow.” There was such artificiality in the wax-flower lady that noth- ing in this speech touched ... ...he mere excitement. But he was not a gambler. He had always disdained that artificial manner of challenging the fates. The bungalow came into view, br... ...the sending of messengers inland was part of her service, either to obtain intelligence from or to transmit orders or advice to patriotic Spaniards, g... ... all, who has less conscience and scruples than a wolf. And being a man of intelligence I govern myself accordingly. Y et I can hardly contain my scor... ...h he had seen very few people, and had been unable to obtain the slightest intelligence of Tom Corbin’s passage. “On! on! I must push on,” he had been...

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...he bed, the room also, was empty. And what was stranger, even to his heavy intelligence, on the bedroom chair and along the rail of the bed were scatt... ...ebrated the first Vic- torian Jubilee) across the road. And inside, in the artificial darkness of the parlour, into which only one thin jet of sunligh... ...d steps. The passing people elbowed and jostled them, but their confounded intelligence was ar- rested. ‘Thud, thud, thud, when, thud, shall we see, t... ...d near that was a toy department, and I had a brilliant idea. I found some artificial noses—dummy 96 The Invisible Man noses, you know, and I thought...

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...he Sauviats made no inventory of his property; but they rummaged, with the intelligence of rats, into every nook and corner of the old man’s house, le... ...s economically made of wood painted white, and two china vases filled with artificial flowers such as the drudge of a money-changer would have despise... ...ho- graphs in small gilt frames. The altar was painted white, adorned with artificial flowers in gilded wooden vases, and covered by a cloth edged wit... ...intellect led the heart, whereas in other women the heart is their road to intelligence. “Do you know,” he said after a pause, “the error in which you... ...he Em- peror, reflected on the laws, and a legislative body elected by the intelligence of the country as well as by the land-owners, whose only funct... ...s the parent of individualism. T o make happiness depend on the stability, intelligence, and capacity of all is not as wise as to make happiness depen... ...ity of all is not as wise as to make happiness depend on the stability and intelligence of institutions and the capacity of a single head. It is easie...

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...onverses is the lover; silent, he is the husband. The girls, again, are so artificial that it is impossible to know what they really are, except from ... ...your mouth and features. Let it be mine alone to kindle the beacon of your intelligence, as I bring the lovelight into your eyes. I would have you the... ...shot glances first at my mother, then at the Baron, brimming over with sly intelligence and repressed curiosity . With their serpent’ s cunning they h... ...f you do not submit to the yoke with the same forbearance, tenderness, and intelligence that you have shown during the days of courtship. For, my litt... ...at he has Renee’s features and eyes. So far, at least, this gives proof of intelligence. The physician and accoucheur assure us that Renee is now quit... ... and a passion- ately loving wife have this in common, that they both need intelligence and discretion ever at hand, and an unfailing com- mand of eve...

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...k that she should never be in charity with herself again. Harriet bore the intelligence very well—blaming nobody— and in every thing testifying such a... ... would be more for her own welfare and hap- piness than all that genius or intelligence could do. It was rather too late in the day to set about being... ...ct that the weather would be detaining her at Mrs. Goddard’s, and that the intelligence would un- doubtedly rush upon her without preparation. The sho... ...on’s rights, however, gradually revived. Though she did not feel the first intelligence as she might have done the day before, or an hour before, its ... ...restrained her indignation, and only turned from her in silence. Smiles of intelligence passed between her and the gentle- man on first glancing towar... ...—” “You are very kind, but I know what my manners were to you.—So cold and artificial!—I had always a part to act.—It was a life of deceit!—I know tha...

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...with the lady; and as it was a part either of the native dignity or of the artificial policy of Mrs General (but certainly one or the 21 Little Dorri... ...my dear sir!’ said Mrs Gowan, smiling and shaking her head with accusatory intelligence, ‘they were well understood by me, I assure you.’ ‘I never, ma... ...ing home from his counting-house by that end of the Y ard to give them the intelligence that he had received another letter from Miss Dorrit. The news... ... several pieces pretending to be in one piece, pair of gaudy vases of very artificial flowers; between them a Greek warrior with his helmet off, sacri... ...hing. Let him look round him (she said) and judge for himself what general intelligence was likely to reach the ears of a woman who had been shut up t... ...vincing, if he had had any previ- ous doubts. He replied, ‘I must seek for intelligence elsewhere.’ He was not going in the same breath; but he had ri... ...could find this man, or discover what has become of him, or gain any later intelligence whatever of him, you would render me a service above any other...

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... DAVID Lucien had gone to Paris; and David Sechard, with the cour- age and intelligence of the ox which painters give the Evan- gelist for accompanyin... ...reat machinery of journalism, where he was like to leave his honor and his intelligence torn to shreds, David Sechard, at the back of his printing-hou... ...clever- est workmen, and took him for his copy-holder, his page. Cerizet’s intelligence naturally interested David; he won the lad’s affection by proc... ...making six francs a day,” said one of the Cointets one day, “and with your intelligence you might come to have a share in the business.” “Where is the... ...od looks, though they could scarcely equal yours …. Baron Goertz discerned intelligence in the young man (just as I see poetry on your brow); he took ... ... With marvelous sagacity he watched the un- accountable freaks of the semi-artificial substances called into existence by man for ends of his own; sub...

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...ne- teenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men ... ... their hearts. And looking across 5 H G Wells space with instruments, and intelligences such as we have scarcely dreamed of, they see, at its nearest... ...d an inch or so. Then the thing came upon him in a flash. The cylinder was artificial—hollow—with an end that screwed out! Something within the cylind... ...t’ s good.” “But it’s something more than a meteorite. It’s a cylinder— an artificial cylinder, man! And there’s something inside.” Henderson stood up... ... And, in the second place, we all overlooked the fact that such mechanical intelligence as the Martian possessed was quite able to dispense with muscu... ...Heat-Ray now rigidly upheld, it reeled swiftly upon Shepperton. The living intelligence, the Martian within the hood, was slain and splashed to the fo... ...curity, moreover, is so deeply fixed in the Londoner’s mind, and startling intelligence so much a matter of course in the papers, that they could read... ...th at all seriously. Yet though they wore no clothing, it was in the other artificial additions to their bodily resources that their great superiority...

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...a buoyant belief that there is in Great Brit- ain the pluck, the will, the intelligence to do anything, how- ever arduous and difficult, in the way of... ...h could not possibly have got into the sluggish and conservative Brit- ish intelligence in half a century by any other means than the stark necessitie... ...e the sense to prescribe it, or the patient the means to procure it or the intelligence to swallow it. The experience of history is that nations do no... ...he greatest of human differences. But the general trend of mankind towards intelligence and reason has been also a trend away from a superstitious tre... ... war. It is not simply that the British women have so bountifully produced intelligence and industry; that does not begin their record. They have been... ... the passions of war into confus- ing a people with its government and the artificial Kultur of a brief century. There is a Germany, great and civilis... ...nstantinople is not a national city; it is now, and it has always been, an artificial cosmopolis, and Constantinople and the Dardanelles are essential... ...a. T o reconstruct modern civilisation without Germany would be a colossal artificial task that would take centuries to do. It is inconceivable that G...

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...ith shouts. It hangs in the smoking-room. We throw open the curacoa to the intelligence and industry of the assembled guests; we carry the right of th... ... listen is something. They suffer like the men, and must de- pend on their intelligence to win their way out of it.’ Rosamund’s meditation was exclama... ...ing into brass and wood, ma’am, beat your bellows and your whifflers; your artificial choruses—crash, crash! your unanimous plebiscitums! Beat them? T... ...test going on over Dollikins. Mr. Algy Borolick was the first to give them intelligence of it, and he declared that Beauchamp had wrested Dollikins fr... ...e, medically incurable, if he would win our confidence. This lady of sharp intelligence was the guardian of Renee during the foolish husband’s flights... ...f weak ones; and that the former may sink, the latter may rise—there is no artificial obstruction; and if it is difficult to rise, it is easy to sink.... ...tly desired to see him and advise him. Why not? Because she was one of the artificial creatures called women (with the accent) who dare not be spontan... ... princesses offered up to the Gods, or pretty slaves to the dealers. Their artificiality is at once their bane and their source of superior pride. Sey... ...r wealth industry; for industry internal peace: therefore no agitation, no artificial divisions. All’s plain in history and fact, so long as we do not...

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...he eccentricity of the face; and by all strangers it was presumed to be an artificial color, resulting from some mode of applying a preparation more b... ...owards what is noble; and, un- less where it has been tried too heavily by artificial incite- ments applied to the pride, I do not believe that women ... ...nts essentially unpopular, none of these professions has been so dignified artificially by the state, or so attached to any ulterior promotion, either... ... it was still open to have distinguished between mere modes of power or of intelligence, and modes of illimitable evil. The results of the Oracles wer... ...he sword of this detested robber will be at their throats. For he has some intelligence (whence I know not, nor how much) of their approach. Neither t... ...ghteen miles from Klosterheim, and presented the sole oasis of culture and artificial beauty throughout the vast extent of those wild tracts of sylvan... ...o personal knowledge; he had not so much as seen him. But by his spies and intelligencers he was well aware that he had been the chief combiner and an... ...ead. Whereupon, baron, I return you your hat.” Meantime, the two insidious intelligencers of the Landgrave returned to the palace with discoveries, no... ... no less powerfully. The appearances of deadly struggles had been arranged artificially to counte- nance the plot and to aid the terror. Finally, the ...

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...tered very little. And even at that everybody pretends not to believe him. ARTIFICIAL RETRIBUTION The worst of that is that busybodies with perhaps ra... ...hich no sanely instructed community would call any attention. We create an artificial morality, and consequently an artificial con- science, by manufa... ... little harm (some- times not any) and be forgotten in a few days. But the artificial morality is not therefore to be condemned offhand. In many cases... ...aled almost exclusively to the lower middle class were crammed with police intelligence, and more especially with divorce and murder cases, now lay no... ...ually available for Colley Cibber and Garrick, except the intensity of our artificial light. When Garrick played Rich- ard II in slashed trunk hose an...

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... that to the bridge) towards the Thames. 1. Billingsgate, now a cothon, or artificial port, for the re- ception of ships. *His name was Sir Thomas Fal... ...y VIII.—under it was placed the Bible curiously written upon parchment; an artificial sphere; several musical instruments; in the tapestry are represe... ...on by Pleasure herself, to dwell in along with Health. In the pleasure and artificial gardens are many columns and pyramids of marble, two fountains t... ... times, yet, that I may not err or shoot at random, I know it from assured intelligence that it was not so; for proof whereof, amongst many (that coul... ... he accomplished much, through his theoretical knowl- edge at home and his intelligence abroad, by unlocking of the counsels of the Queen’s enemies. W... ... his mistress. They note him to have certain courtesies and secret ways of intelligence above the rest; but I must confess I am to seek wherefore he s... ...ion, I cannot, as yet, make any certain judgment; but I believe, out of my intelligence, that you may expect the landing in Munster, and, the more to ... ...much of his abilities in the pen, that he was his crafts-master in foreign intelligence, and for domestic af- fairs. As he was one of those that sat a...

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...ot floundering by this time in the delights of chaos, where every spark of intelligence is quenched, and the body, set free from its tyranny, gives it... ... be found, concealing depths of depravity behind a fair mask, and the most artificial vices beneath a brow as young and fair as an opening flower. At ... ... routine of living brings a stupid kind of wisdom with it, by blunting our intelligence with work; and on the other hand, a life passed in the limbo o... ...- pid, by sheer stress of emotion. I was too ingenuous, no doubt, for that artificial life, led by candle-light, where every thought is expressed in c... ...ossy, and might have passed for the hat of a frugally given owner, but its artificially prolonged exist- ence had now reached the final stage, it was ... ...rty is absolute there exist no such things as shame or crime, or virtue or intelligence. I knew not what to do; I was as defenceless as a maiden on he... ...lustrious man.’ “‘Well, my esteemed and excellent friend, and how may Your Intelligence be?’ So Rastignac addressed the stranger as he sat down at a n... ... sonage, straightening the line of his lips that stretched across a row of artificial teeth. That laugh brought out, for Raphael’s heated fancy, a str... ...d her elderly innocence became, in his eyes, a fresh manifestation of that artificial, malicious little world. It was a paltry device, a clumsy artifi...

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...ety ought to be- long wholly to those distinguished beings who, to natural intelligence, acquired wisdom, and fortune, add a fanaticism hot enough to ... ...a shawl around her, and the way she lifts her feet in the street, a man of intelligence in such studies can divine the secret of her mysterious errand... ... he did so. The carriage stopped in the rue de Richelieu before a shop for artificial flowers, close to the rue de Menars. The lady got out, entered t... ...abits of every dweller in the house,— bits of printed cottons, tea-leaves, artificial flower-petals faded and worthless, vegetable parings, papers, sc... ...void of teeth but menacing; humble yet terrible beings, in whom a profound intelligence shining in their eyes seems like a contradiction. Some of thes... ...woman is there, scattered about in open sight. Disjecta membra poetae, the artificial poesy, so much admired by those for whom it is conceived and ela... ...aping, like those of idiots or vicious men killed by excesses. No trace of intelligence remained upon that brow, nor in any feature; nor was there in ...

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...ved that he should not lack opportunity for the exercise of those gifts of intelligence to which Gordon Wright had appealed. The two friends took long... ...rself! You said just now that you believed I had left Baden.” “That was an artificial—a conventional speech. Is n’t a lady always supposed to say some... ...d carte blanche for the expenditure of his wits. Bernard liked to feel his intelligence at play; this is, per- 70 Confidence haps, the highest luxury... ... was, and delighting, as I have said, in the play of his singularly nimble intelligence, he should have given himself up to a sort of unconscious expe... ...it ‘s chemistry!” These words gave Bernard a certain shock, but he had his intelligence sufficiently in hand to contradict them with energy. “You labo... ...ever ingenuity he might at the mo- ment have answered these questions, his intelligence at present felt decidedly overtaxed. She was a very pretty gir... ...de-issue. “Don’t say all this before Angela!” he exclaimed, with a kind of artificial energy. “You know she is not in the least at fault, and that it ...

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... and closely watching, asks himself. No. Did that nostril twitch? No. This artificial respiration ceasing, do I feel any faint flutter under my hand u... ...eserv- ing her own name, and her sweet delusion is at its height. There is intelligence in his eyes. He wants to ask a question. He wonders where he i... ...a better subject to bestow their pains on. 30 Our Mutual Friend – V ol. 3 Intelligence is conveyed to Miss Abbey in the bar, who reap- pears on the s... ... return, they met brisk Mrs Milvey coming to seek them, with the agreeable intelligence that there was no fear for the village children, there being a... ... by the like slow persistent process. A man of rapid passions and sluggish intelligence, it had served him often and should serve him again. The suspi... ...y, he did not know. He asked Riderhood if he would be willing, in case any intelligence of her, or of W rayburn as seeking her or associating with her...

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...cisely what France is doing. She does her utmost to produce artists by the artificial heat of competi- tive examination; but, the sculptor, painter, e... ...ass and iron and ormolu furniture? Well, I myself believe that there is an intelligence in works of art; they know art-lovers, they call to them— ’Cht... ... get the postage-money at the end of the month.” To a person of La Cibot’s intelligence this was enough. “One may be poor and honest,” observed she. “... ...t with other eyes. “M. Fraisier,” said she, “you have convinced me of your intelligence, and I think that you can speak frankly.” Fraisier replied by ... ...ater with a little wine in it; the spirit of life spread through the body; intelligence lighted up the forehead so short a while ago insensible as a s... ...for Mme. Cantinet—a lean, sallow woman, with large teeth and thin lips—her intelligence, as so often happens with women of the people, had been blunte...

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...superficial. Taking the ordinary standard of reality as a mea- sure, it is artificial. For this measure is connection with practical concerns. Such ma... ...on congenital stupidity to our forerunners and by assuming superior native intelligence on our own part. But the ex- planation is that their modes of ... ...ing and transmitted through written symbols. Written symbols are even more artificial or conventional than spoken; they cannot be picked up in acciden... ...can modify the mind of another is by using physi- cal conditions, crude or artificial, so as to evoke some answering activity from him. Such are our t... ...al spe- cialized ability in algebra, Latin, or botany, but not the kind of intelligence which directs ability to useful ends. Only by engaging in a jo... ...e into ways of action to which we are enslaved just in the degree in which intelligence is disconnected from them. Routine habits are unthinking habit... ...ng on past achievements. Only an environment which secures the full use of intelligence in the process of forming habits can counteract this ten- denc... ...t was henceforth impossible to conceive of insti- tutions or of culture as artificial. It destroyed completely— in idea, not in fact —the psychology t... ...to be turned back to feed on itself; their art becomes a showy display and artificial; their wealth luxurious; their knowledge over- specialized; thei...

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...lled because its expression was not spon- taneous, but always, as it were, artificial, deliberate, borrowed, and a blind conviction grew upon one that... .... He displayed to- 103 Dostoevsky day before my eyes a sudden proof of an intelligence of which I had not the slightest suspicion, and at the same ti... ...of his long speech—which was strange from its very length—he seemed to be artificially assuming the air of an eccentric man struggling to conceal an ... ...nsincere even to be po- lite. But your sincerity is more precious than all artificial po- liteness. Yes! I recognize that it will take me a long, long... ...e expression in her eyes was particularly striking. There was the light of intelligence in them, and at the same time an 110 The Insulted and Injured... ...it will be settled of itself in the best possible way without violence and artificial interference, such as a duel, for instance. Time is the very bes... ...ow she was evidently keep- ing herself in check. There was a look of great intelligence, too, in her eyes, but even more of good-nature and gaiety. It...