The naturalists and their followers, thinking they can solve this question, are like plasterers set to plaster one side of the walls of a church who, availing themselves of the absence of the chief superintendent of the work, should in an access of zeal plaster over the windows, icons, woodwork, and still unbuttressed walls, and should be delighted that from their
point of view as plasterers, everything is now so smooth and regular.
"Major Thomson," he said at last, "I have never heard of your before, and I am not prepared for a moment to say that I sympathise with your
point of view. But it is at least refreshing to hear any one speak his mind with such frankness.
Immoral, licentious, anarchical, unscientific -- call them by what names you will -- yet, from an aesthetic
point of view, those ancient days of the Colour Revolt were the glorious childhood of Art in Flatland -- a childhood, alas, that never ripened into manhood, nor even reached the blossom of youth.
"One must begin with grandeur, paint everything expressed, soften the shades of those which are of least importance, collect all into one
point of view, and carry the reader thither with a rapid flight."
Finding instead of peace and rest all these, from her
point of view, fearful calamities, Darya Alexandrovna was at first in despair.
It is a little figure in which, after all, if you can get the right
point of view, there is something rather striking.
A few hours ago Trent was looking forward to his evening with the keenest pleasure - now he was dazed - he could not readjust his
point of view to the new conditions.
Prince, I want you to remember that however effete you may find us as a nation from your somewhat romantic
point of view, we have at least realized the highest ideals any nation has ever conceived in the administration of the law.
"My aunt looks at the matter from her own peculiar
point of view, and makes light of it accordingly.
This, however, does not affect the value of their general theories from the
point of view of theoretic psychology, and it is from this
point of view that their results are important for the analysis of mind.
Why do you worry about my
point of view? I may have a dozen reasons.
If you unload his skull of its spermy heaps and then take a rear view of its rear end, which is the high end, you will be struck by its resemblance to the human skull, beheld in the same situation, and from the same
point of view. Indeed, place this reversed skull (scaled down to the human magnitude) among a plate of men's skulls, and you would involuntarily confound it with them; and remarking the depressions on one part of its summit, in phrenological phrase you would say --This man had no self-esteem, and no veneration.