Continuity

Examples

• They are anticipations of some continuity or connection of an activity and a consequence which has not as yet shown itself. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• When I returned to the bedside of the young woman, I found her raving in precisely the same order of continuity. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• This would have lengthened the average reign of each Pope, and enormously increased the continuity of the policy of the church. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is the fact that the aim is thought of as more activity in the same line, without defining continuity of action in reference to results produced. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The principle is not what justifies an activity, for the principle is but another name for the continuity of the activity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But continuity of the life process is not dependent upon the prolongation of the existence of any one individual. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Occupation is a concrete term for continuity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The latter assumes continuity; the former state or imply certain basic divisions, separations, or antitheses, technically called dualisms. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The organization of the Museum was not planned to ensure its mental continuity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was a new instrument for the human mind, an enormous enlargement of its range of action, a new means of continuity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The continuity of any experience, through renewing of the social group, is a literal fact. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The nature and relative proportions of the inhabitants of oceanic islands are likewise opposed to the belief of their former continuity of continents. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with his own active tendencies. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In practice this is done by means of a special instrument known as a continuity preserving transmitter, or, usually, as a transmitter. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• What were the caus es of this threatened break in the historical continuity of science? Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• But (2) the measure of the value of an experience lies in the perception of relationships or continuities to which it leads up. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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