And Hannibal, snarling, growling, and spitting, ducking his head and with short paw-strokes trying to ward off the insistent broomstick, backed obediently into the corner, crumpled up his hind-parts, and tried to withdraw his
corporeal body within itself in a pain-urged effort to make it smaller.
It will be universally admitted that instincts are as important as corporeal structure for the welfare of each species, under its present conditions of life.
Hence, as in the case of corporeal structures, we ought to find in nature, not the actual transitional gradations by which each complex instinct has been acquired--for these could be found only in the lineal ancestors of each species--but we ought to find in the collateral lines of descent some evidence of such gradations; or we ought at least to be able to show that gradations of some kind are possible; and this we certainly can do.
Again as in the case of corporeal structure, and conformably with my theory, the instinct of each species is good for itself, but has never, as far as we can judge, been produced for the exclusive good of others.
The
corporeal wants of the convicts are tolerably well supplied: their prospect of future liberty and comfort is not distant, and, after good conduct, certain.
She might indeed be called a lover of men, as Socrates was a lover of mankind, preferring one to another for
corporeal, as he for mental qualifications; but never carrying this preference so far as to cause any perturbation in the philosophical serenity of her temper.
This hand seemed a thing apart, self-existent, with no
corporeal attachment, and it appeared and disappeared like an apparition as the thumb-pressure wavered on the switch.
The naturalist placed a foot in the frail vessel, as an elephant will try a bridge, or a horse is often seen to make a similar experiment, before he will trust the whole of his
corporeal treasure on the dreaded flat, and then withdrew, just as the old man believed he was about to seat himself.
At such time, a mortal knows just enough of what his mind is doing, to form some glimmering conception of its mighty powers, its bounding from earth and spurning time and space, when freed from the restraint of its
corporeal associate.
The space presented by the Global Lives Project is impossible to experience in the
corporeal world alone.
A crucial component of this account is that ordinary bodies are individuated by the way in which the
corporeal god pervades them.
Before Olds recounts the end of her mother's life and battle with cancer, she covers some other pretty intense subjects, such as
corporeal punishment while menstruating, abortions in the era of George Bush and her mother's own personal lonesome, abusive and puritanical history.
