Word: partiality
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Professor Searle went on to describe the motion of the moon with the reference to the earth and sun, and so came to the subject of eclipses. Eclipses of the sun, though generally partial, are sometimes total. In such cases the bright light which is visible around the sun is called the corona, and is supposed to be due to the reflection of light from floating particles in the sun's atmosphere. This, however, is only one of several theories about the matter. In a total eclipse, too, we notice certain red spots around the edge of the moon...
...ourselves one with Nature and which is all satisfying. The "roosts" are numerous. Such are health, wealth, power, and knowledge, things which may or may not be good in themselves and which we grasp at, often to the exclusion of all else, and then find unsatisfactory. They are all partial, and death ends them...
...Partial opening of Fair equally undesirable. - (a) Same reasons apply as against complete opening. - (b) Intended for finance not for the workingmen: Advance, Nov. 17, 1892. - (c) The quiet Sabbath scheme Utopian and impracticable: Our Day, IX, 698 - (d) Religious services more conveniently held in the city free of charge: Our Day, IX, 698 - (e) Entering wedge to complete Sunday opening...
...results. But we should consider it rather, as a practical means to get at a definite end. The drink habit is the enemy, and it is the business of legislation to pick out suitable weapons, and means of attack, and then to employ them. It must necessarily have a partial, tentative effect, because the subject is one of ethics; because of the necessary effect every man must have on the whole social organism...
Social questions are in reality, moral ones. Even behind all economic and political questions, lies the fact that the conscience of the country is pricked with shame. All these things find a partial solution in an attempt to form an ethical theory...