At thirty years of age he became a central figure in the
development of the art of telephony.
This market has given an immense
development to commerce, to navigation, to communication by land.
No, it seems our
development and our consciousness must go further to understand all the intricacies of this pleasure.
But for the full
development of Life to its highest mode of perfection, something more is needed.
It was a remarkable thing--all that physical strength which had reached in Quasimodo such an extraordinary
development, and which was placed by him blindly at the disposition of another.
He lived in the family of President Hopkins, and thus had a training that was wholly out of the common; and this training had much to do with the
development of his own strong character, whose originality and force we are only beginning to appreciate.
But a complex and difficult process of internal
development was taking place all this time in Pierre's soul, revealing much to him and causing him many spiritual doubts and joys.
But if, as Amiel himself challenges us to do, we look below the surface of a very equable and even smoothly accomplished literary manner, we discover, in high degree of
development, that perplexity or complexity of soul, the expression [23] of which, so it be with an adequate literary gift, has its legitimate, because inevitable, interest for the modern reader.
We may note the garlic and whisky on the breath of a fellow strap hanger, or the cheap perfume emanating from the person of the wondrous lady sitting in front of us, and deplore the fact of our sensitive noses; but, as a matter of fact, we cannot smell at all, our olfactory organs are practically atrophied, by comparison with the
development of the sense among the beasts of the wild.
Their theory of
development is wrong, for it does not tend toward a perfectly balanced whole.
Not that we are philanthropists, but that we need the investors in our big
development scheme.
He quoted Spencer and Malthus, and enunciated the biological law of
development.