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... the key of the gulf and river. Canada had the characteristics of the French colonial system planted in a climate least suited to it. A government paternal, military, and monkish discouraged the development of individual enterprise and of free association for common ends. The colonists abandoned commerce and agriculture, raising only food enough for immediate consumption, and were given to arms and hunting. Their chief traffic was in furs. There was so little mechanical art among them that they bought of the English ...

— The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 • A. T. Mahan

... and wide-spread importance in the conduct of our lives, and at the same time a law which we Americans most grievously neglect. Stated technically, the law is this: that strong feeling about one's self tends to arrest the free association of one's objective ideas and motor processes. We get the extreme example of this in ...

— Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals • William James

... creative thought we should include a separate section on analogy, metaphor, association etc. distinct from 521?? —> 514a Analogy — N. analogy, association, association of ideas. metaphor &c. 521. analogical thinking; free association; train of thought, ...

— Roget's Thesaurus