Word: reflexive
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...Sunday several men go aboard the coal and timber vessels lying near by and talk plainly and frankly with the sailors who are, as a rule, unprejudiced and willing listeners and talkers. The effect of this work is twofold. Besides its effect on the sailors, there is a reflex influence on the men themselves. They find it excellent training...
...intact. The Germans in the midst of this period adopted the Christian religion, and abandoned their own religious ideas; with the religious ideas went the poetic ideas, too. But the Icelanders preserved the old traditions better, and Professor Francke analyzed the Elder Edda, and showed how it is a reflex of the time of migration...
...prevented it for their own interest. Dr. Fisher discovered in the examples he read of Christ's indignation, a principle that drew a clear distinction between inward anger and unlawful anger. Christ was never guilty of the latter. His anger was never personal, never revengeful, but it was a reflex of the highest zeal for truth and holiness, a feeling of abhorrence for sin itself, not for the weak ones upon whom sin had fastened...
...interest of any organization; their meetings are held in halls apart from any church and are well advertised in advance by circulating invitations in the shops and factories. The results of the work thus far have exceeded expectations. Not only has great good been done, but the reflex influence has been felt upon the college, and many students have been encouraged to take up and continue the work...
...will be felt in this community by the breadth of idea it will inevitably introduce here. The active interchange of thought which is the outcome of a properly directed club effort is certain to produce a higher intellectual standard among the members, and this cannot fail of a reflex action on the community in which they move and associate. In union is strength is true of intellectual effort as well as political or any other co-operation. The gentlemen who met yesterday afternoon are highly encouraged by the prospect before them, and feel certain that no step that has ever...