But Callimachus, seeing him tearing past, caught hold of his shield by the rim, and in the meantime Aristonymous the Methydrian ran past both, and after him Eurylochus of Lusia; for they were one and all aspirants to valour, and in that high pursuit, each was the eager rival of the rest.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

In trying the preceding experiment with the electric radiometer the potential should not exceed a certain limit, as then the electrostatic attraction between the vanes and the glass of the bulb may be so great as to stop the rotation.
— from The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting by Thomas Commerford Martin

Theriere returned immediately to the forecastle, from which he presently emerged with the erstwhile recalcitrant Byrne, and for two days the latter languished in durance vile, and that was the end of the episode, though its effects were manifold.
— from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs

And merely that some Italian name should not be absent from this review of recent writers, we will record Miraglia, who repeats the old Kantian division, making it yet more empirical: "Morality and rights are part of Ethic, because the good can be chiefly developed in the intimate relations of the conscience, or on the contrary can be developed by preference in the external relations between man and man and between man and thing";—and Vanni, who mixes a little positivistic evolutionism with this empirical reduction, affirming that rights are not originally distinct from morality, but that afterwards they were gradually differentiated, and rights now have the special function of guardianship and guarantee: "that is to say, the ethical minimum alone has been guaranteed, that much of the ethical field as is most directly necessary for the maintenance of life in common, leaving to other forces the task of regulating
— from The Philosophy of the Practical: Economic and Ethic by Benedetto Croce

The world not being ripe for the adoption of the superior and rational methods here intimated for the adjustment of our difficulties—the readiness of one party even, without the equal readiness of the other, being inadequate—the crisis and the conflict could not be averted; and that again being the case, it is of the utmost importance that the second in order of the two adverse principles, the principle of democracy, be completely triumphant; not because it is more true, but because it is a more advanced truth, and one step nearer, therefore, to the final solution, which will then lap back, and subsume and assimilate and reconcile the whole family of fundamental principles upon which the existence of human society is inexpugnably based .
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various