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  • Gall is the seat of Marvellousness, Imagination, and Spirituality; that of Spurzheim is well expressed by the term Ideality, and the description given, but the word Poetry is rather too limited as the definition of Gall's organ.

    Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9 1856

  • "Ideality," says Horace Mann, "is only the _avant courier_ of the mind; and where that in a healthy and normal state goes I hold it to be a prophecy that realization can follow."

    How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune Orison Swett Marden 1887

  • Hence the patient was enabled to only distinguish the most common points of resemblance between objects, without drawing upon other faculties, such as Ideality or Language, for assistance.

    Condensed Novels Bret Harte 1869

  • ˜Ideality™ connoted ˜ideal-ism™ as evident in certain knowledge, ˜pre-eminently the foundation of the mathematics™.

    I Am Wearing Stolen Socks 2009

  • ˜Ideality in the physical sciences™ delivered at Harvard in

    I Am Wearing Stolen Socks 2009

  • And as his Ideality may be Demonstratively proved from his Infinity so his Infinity may be very Rationally collected from his Ideality, it being not Conceivable that any Being that is not Infinite in Being, should be Omniform, or have the Ideal Reasons of all things in himself.

    Motherly Advice Trace Sheridan 2009

  • Constructiveness and Imitation were large, and Ideality was full.

    The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005

  • Ideality and Divinity are qualities that exist on one-pole continuums.

    Director of the Beth Din of America appointed as dean of RIETS at YU | Jewschool 2007

  • Hyppolite (along with Maurice de Gandillac) was to direct Derrida's doctoral thesis, “The Ideality of the Literary Object”; Derrida never completed this thesis.

    Jacques Derrida Lawlor, Leonard 2006

  • Ideality, which took the glory and softness from his nature, and for him diminished those divine qualities throughout the universe.

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

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