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artificial

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artificial
Biology relating to superficial characteristics not based on the interrelationships of organisms


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The early Greek epic -- that is, poetry as a natural and popular, and not (as it became later) an artificial and academic literary form -- passed through the usual three phases, of development, of maturity, and of decline.
It has been my aim to make the character of "Magdalen," which personifies this struggle, a pathetic character even in its perversity and its error; and I have tried hard to attain this result by the least obtrusive and the least artificial of all means -- by a resolute adherence throughout to the truth as it is in Nature.
Eustace Macallan had complimented her on the beauty of her complexion, and had asked what artificial means she used to keep it in such good order.
 
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