Sentences with phrase «by civilized men»

(II Samuel xv - xviii) Again, if we isolate those parts which in our proposed classification would have to be labelled «Religion», some of them do not appear to have any particular relevance to the religious life as it is understood by civilized men in our contemporary world; such as the detailed regulations for the ritual slaughter of animals in the Book of Leviticus.

Blackmun's opposition to the law is based on the right to privacy, «the most comprehensive of rights and the most valued by civilized men, [namely] the right to be left alone.»

Thus we may say that the rise of rational consciousness as an important new factor, which constituted the threshold crossed by civilized man, prepared for the possibility that the seat of existence shift into this consciousness.

Not exact matches

Yet once granted that a genuine form of the mythical vision remains a possibility for civilized or historical man, and that myth itself is a creation of the human imagination, then it follows that a private myth is not only a possibility but is indeed the inevitable form by which a new or revolutionary myth will first appear in history.

She declared in The Life of the Spirit and the Life of Today (E. P. Dutton, 1923) that society would be enhanced «if the civil wars of civilized man could cease and be replaced by that other mental fight, for the upbuilding of Jerusalem.»

Even though we are a civilized world and women are equal to men in many respects - it is still hard for a single woman, all alone, all by herself, to go to a bar and have a drink and try to meet a guy.

The basics: Raised by apes — but now living as a civilized British aristocrat — Lord Greystoke (Skarsgard) returns to his roots (and vines) when the ape - man's jungle home is threatened by colonial exploitation.

At the cusp of the twentieth century, the expedition forces a collision course between the tribal and the civilized, between two young men plagued by their respective and haunting pasts.

I'm sure there are many others who hold that view, and who'd point out that man — by virtue of that «dominion» he has over other animals, by virtue of being the superior, more developed being, by virtue of his position atop civilized society — has every right to chow down on his dog when trapped in the wilderness with no other options available.

It is of all ages, of every land, and if by this we mean that the creative spirit in man which produces a picture or a statue is common to the whole civilized world, independent of age, race and nationality, the statement may stand unchallenged.»

It is of all ages, of every land, and if by this we mean the creative spirit in man which produces a picture or a statue is common to the whole civilized world, independent of age, race and nationality; the statement may stand unchallenged.»