Instrumentality

Examples

• He believed without effort in the peculiar work of grace within him, and in the signs that God intended him for special instrumentality. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• That would, indeed, be a civil war of the worst description: we should rather, through the instrumentality of men of science, soften the asper ities of national hostility. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• His instrumentality appealed so strongly to her, she wished she were God, to use him as a tool. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• What mattered was the pure instrumentality of the individual. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Suddenly he had conceived the pure instrumentality of mankind. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• If it is not, then when the time and place come for it to be used as a means or instrumentality, it will be in just that much handicapped. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It is the sole instrumentality of conscious, as distinct from accidental, progress. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He had mental exercises, called himself nought, laid hold on redemption, and went on in his course of instrumentality. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Inventions and discoveries in the field of surgery relate not only to instrumentalities but processes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• And for the school these things mean equipment with the instrumentalities of cooperative or joint activity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• They are as old as religion, and have been found wherever evidence of religious rites of any description have been found, as they constituted part of the instrumentalities of such rites. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The modern life of the world, however, has been replete with the resourceful expedients of the engineer, and the ingenious instrumentalities invented by him to carry out his plans. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The state furnished not only the instrumentalities of public education but also its goal. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• To which must be added his adoption of Alfred Vail's improved alphabet, and Vail's practical suggestions in respect to the recording and other instrumentalities. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• At this early date no drawings were attached to patents, and the specification dwells more on the function of the machine than the instrumentalities employed. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Modern inventors have also produced with a flourish nice instrumentalities for raising water, agencies which are covered with the moss of untold centuries in China. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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