But invariableness, he maintains, is no proof of inaction. From Wordnik.com. [The Recreations of a Country Parson] Reference
'The invariableness of Nature bespeaks Holiness as its cause.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Recreations of a Country Parson] Reference
The actual miracle of the Universe is the invariableness of Law. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists] Reference
Why, therefore, should not the secret of nature's invariableness be, not passiveness, but rightness? '. From Wordnik.com. [The Recreations of a Country Parson] Reference
He was winning in the invariableness of his amiability, often playful in spirits and manner, and warm in his affections. From Wordnik.com. [Hortense Makers of History Series] Reference
Aristotle, when he admireth the eternity and invariableness of the heavens, as there were not the like in the bowels of the earth?. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3] Reference
In the training of animals and the education of children it is the perfection, inevitableness, invariableness, and relentlessness of routine which tells. From Wordnik.com. [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference
It seems to carry a protest against the little frets of life, and, by its strength and invariableness, to be a visible image of Him who is "the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever.". From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak] Reference
It is evident, therefore, that our author has entangled himself in some grave fallacy, by introducing this idea of invariableness as forming a distinction between poetical and historical art. From Wordnik.com. [Selections From the Works of John Ruskin] Reference
The eternity, invariableness, and divine origin of the former have been displayed to the best advantage: The blindness, unconstancy, and deceitfulness of the latter have been as strongly insisted on. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise of Human Nature] Reference
The idea of causality, which implies the universal necessity of causation, cannot be educed from experience, since necessity (as opposed to mere invariableness) cannot be known by experience; it is therefore an original principle in the mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference
I now proceed to explain the second part of my system, and shew why the constancy of our perceptions makes us ascribe to them a perfect numerical identity, tho there be very long intervals betwixt their appearance, and they have only one of the essential qualities of identity, viz, invariableness. From Wordnik.com. [A treatise of human nature] Reference
Why should the fact that a given kind of chrysalis in a given condition will always become a butterfly within a certain time be connected with memory, when it is not pretended that memory has anything to do with the invariableness with which oxygen and hydrogen when mixed in certain proportions make water?. From Wordnik.com. [Unconscious Memory] Reference
Thus the principle of individuation is nothing but the invariableness and uninterruptedness of any object, thro a supposd variation of time, by which the mind can trace it in the different periods of its existence, without any break of the view, and without being obligd to form the idea of multiplicity or number. From Wordnik.com. [A treatise of human nature] Reference
The reconciliation of the apparently contradictory facts of the invariableness of the object and the variableness of its appearance is only possible in a space of three dimensions, in which, owing to perspective distortions and changes, these variations of projection can be reconciled with the consistency of the form of a body. From Wordnik.com. [The Fourth Dimension Simply Explained] Reference
We assume confidently that if a drop of water were decomposed into its component parts, and if these were brought together again, and again decomposed and again brought together any number of times over, the results would be invariably the same, whether decomposition or combination, yet no one will refer the invariableness of the action during each repetition, to recollection by the gaseous molecules of the course taken when the process was last repeated. From Wordnik.com. [Unconscious Memory] Reference
Page 14 property and requirements are not only invariable uniformity, but unconditional consequence, might appear to shackle our experimental inquiries by narrowing down the proof too rigidly; but a moment's reflection will satisfy us that such is not the case, as the constituent elements of a law in the science of physical etiology, the subject under inquiry, ought not to differ from those of a law in physical sciences generally -- that is, so far as the analysis has reference to the constancy of a phenomenon, or the invariableness of relationship. From Wordnik.com. [An Address before the Medical Society of North Carolina, at Its Second Annual Meeting, in Raleigh, May 1851, by Charles E. Johnson, M.D.] Reference
Why should the fact that a given kind of chrysalis in a given condition will always become a butterfly within a certain time be connected with memory when it is not pretended that memory has anything to do with the invariableness with which oxygen and hydrogen when mixed in certain proportions make water? ". From Wordnik.com. [Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals] Reference
Of invariableness of justice. From Wordnik.com. [Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold] Reference
It so happened, throughout our travels in Norway, and, indeed, whenever we went on these fishing excursions, that R----, who gave little expression to success in his pastime, nor felt annoyed at failure, invariably obtained the services of the most expert boatmen, while P----, who threw heart and soul into everything he undertook, and always swerved under discomfiture, secured with the same invariableness the aid of the most consummate clowns; and the rewardless termination of his toil, or tact, has been mainly attributable to the thick-headedness of those who should have assisted him with their sagacity. From Wordnik.com. [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference
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