In considering the Origin of Species, it is quite conceivable that a naturalist, reflecting on the
mutual affinities of organic beings, on their embryological relations, their geographical distribution, geological succession, and other such facts, might come to the conclusion that each species had not been independently created, but had descended, like varieties, from other species.
Into the manhood of the race: for I, for my own part cannot think that these latter days of weak experiment, fragmentary theory, and
mutual discord are indeed man's culminating time!
The job had been to make a punitive expedition to a neighbouring island, and, incidentally, to recover the heads of some
mutual friends of ours--a white-trader, his white wife and children, and his white clerk.
"--May be reduced to the following: adultery of one of the married parties, and the detection in the fact of the guilty party by
mutual agreement, and failing such agreement, accidental detection.
Unable to detect a weak point in this scheme of
mutual advantage, the financier gave the promoter in disguise an order for the money, and wrote a note to his wife directing her to count out the girl.
The barons, or nobles, equally the enemies of the sovereign and the oppressors of the common people, were dreaded and detested by both; till
mutual danger and
mutual interest effected a union between them fatal to the power of the aristocracy.
Notwithstanding their true interest with respect to the continental nations was really the same, yet by the arts and policy and practices of those nations, their
mutual jealousies were perpetually kept inflamed, and for a long series of years they were far more inconvenient and troublesome than they were useful and assisting to each other.
It is also from natural causes that some beings command and others obey, that each may obtain their
mutual safety; for a being who is endowed with a mind capable of reflection and forethought is by nature the superior and governor, whereas he whose excellence is merely corporeal is formect to be a slave; whence it follows that the different state of master [1252b] and slave is equally advantageous to both.
Hetty's shriek mingled with the sound, and they clasped each other in
mutual horror.
We flew into each others arms and after having exchanged vows of
mutual Freindship for the rest of our Lives, instantly unfolded to each other the most inward secrets of our Hearts--.
In the spiritual world, the old physician and the minister --
mutual victims as they have been -- may, unawares, have found their earthly stock of hatred and antipathy transmuted into golden love.
Hearken not to the unnatural voice which tells you that the people of America, knit together as they are by so many cords of affection, can no longer live together as members of the same family; can no longer continue the
mutual guardians of their
mutual happiness; can no longer be fellow citizens of one great, respectable, and flourishing empire.