"Ramification" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... quality; to those again are added, in biology, laws of life; and lastly, the conditions of life in general branch out into its special conditions, or natural history, on the one hand, and into its abnormal conditions, or pathology, on the other. And in this series or ramification of the sciences, the more general science will not suffice to solve the problems of the more special. Chemistry embraces phenomena which are not explicable by physics; biology embraces phenomena which are not explicable by chemistry; and no biological ...
— George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy • George Willis Cooke
... national army. With regard to these men the question is not, "What are you going to do with them when the war is done?" but, "What will you do with them to-day and to-morrow?" Your duty is to use victory in the moment of victory. You are not to wait for its last ramification before you lead in peace and plenty, which ought to follow close in its ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 • Various
... Disraeli! REINHARDT should pirate it for Berlin, as it would lend some colour to the imaginative Dr. HELLFERICH's airy dissertations on English finance. Can it be that our author is a hyphenated patriot in disguise and that this is merely a ramification of the so thorough German Press Bureau's activities? ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 12, 1916 • Various
... social, that effect personal and mental intercourse between man and man. They are, consequently, highly calculated to establish an equal level of well-being and culture throughout society. The extension and ramification of the most perfect means of transportation and communication into the remotest corners of the land is, accordingly, a necessity and a matter of general social interest. On this field there arise before the new social ...
— Woman under socialism • August Bebel
... southern Spain near Almeria, a ramification of the Sierra Nevadas. They formed the last refuge ...
— Novelas Cortas • Pedro Antonio de Alarcon |
