Word: depends
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...speaking of the requirements for good acting, Mr. Irving said, "Success does not depend upon a few lessons in declamation, nor upon a study of the tradition of characters; nothing can be worse than a traditional way of interpretation. It is not the attitude nor the tone which is to be studied. You must impersonate; you must not recite. It has been the custom in England to demand a false inflection in tragedy, while naturalism is demanded in comedy. It is not the measured recitation of a long speech, but a short sentence which is often the more effective. Garrick...
...literary publications of Yale and Princeton are, therefore, no analogy, and form no example for us whatever. At those colleges, everyone subscribes to the monthlies; but here, a monthly would have a mere handful of subscribers, and would have to depend for funds almost wholly on advertisements, and owing to its small circulation, would not get good work from the best...
...first consider what are the implications of the determinist view. If our acts depend entirely on our present circumstances and character, and our characters on past circumstances and the circumstances of our parents, it is evident that all things are perfectly determined. For the past cannot be changed, and as the future flows out of the past by a necessary law, the future is itself equally fixed and immutable. Why then, it may be said, should we waste effort in trying to accomplish that which, if not settled already, can never come about? If all things spring necessarily from...
...difficulty, however, recurs here. If the will is evolved out of the man's nature and this nature is necessarily what it is, how does he choose his act, how is he free? A man's acts depend on his character, which includes his will, reacting on his circumstances. His character is itself the result of circumstances and of the characters of his parents. The question now arises: if we carry our inquiry back far enough, shall we arrive at a point where intellect and will are swallowed up in mechanical forces of which they are the slowly evolved product...
...confusion is the prevailing feeling that the very existence of right and wrong is involved in this question; and therefore men approach the subject with their minds already made up, and in doot take the trouble to analyze the problem and see in what sense right and wrong really depend on the answer we give...