While enjoying “Christmas Lights”, an “expressionist” dance school with youth from preschool through high school performed, in their age groups, to music which, except for the junior hi age-group’s “jingle bells,” had no traditional Christmas at all. We watched the young teens love of moving just like the robots, and the irrelevance of Christmas, senior-Jazz group; but about midway through the program, announced “..and here come my little penguins,” correctly black and white, uniforms of costume within matching height and weight, girls and boys, who were very reluctant to come out on the stage; then proceeded to stand, arms to side, touching-side-to-wobble about in proper penguin-motion; and when finished, ran off the stage as fast as their legs could carry them.
The part common core’s few, ignorant, arrogant collective,mass-group-arbitrary-concrete-mind-human precept-think took from the movie, not the cartoon, was how all the penguins bunch together in lines or in compact circles as they stand through, often very powerful snowstorms – that was all they discerned. That the penguin-egg would not hatch at all, unless father penguin alternating with mother penguin, went off for days, wobbling over land to get to water for fish and wobble back over land, to feed the hatching eggs and babies, many of which won’t survive. Further, mom or dad sitting on the egg, or now hatchling still has to protect it from elements and other carnivorous animals, as best it can, while never knowing if mom or dad will return from the hunt.
Thus, collective-people the servants enslaved of, by, and for Government interests, innate common core sustained and wreaked on all man, woman, and child/ youth, ridicule of science, art, music, history, culture, civilization, love of justice in all life that is God’s greatest Gifts among the ideas in language and communication within our Republican Form or Representative Government’s Protection of Each-one-Person’s Right/ Good, remain totally ignorant of “Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. Justly understood it is sacred next to those which we appropriate in divine adoration; but in the mouths of some it means any thing.”– Oliver Ellsworth
Though the leader, and the vast majority of the audience, were oblivious to the matching-while denying-girl-boy- actions by the arbitrary-human precept-practice of wresting any thing from a person by duress, authority, or undue exercise of power in menace, the definition of force absent truth, trust, promise or God inherent to 2 Common Core’s goals: 1) malice prepense against each-one-person-child/ youth’s soul/ mind/ heart; and 2) to perpetrate ignorance upon them; they did see, but not perceive, and did hear, but are ignorant and do not understand, the children’s reluctance as each-one-person-Child’s liberty of Will was violated as the penguin-matching-children had to be hands-on-assist-instructor-placed-in their proper-penguin-line-up, in the name of “expressionist-dancing”, human-body-penguin-wobbles, “December Nights” to avoid any expression of 2,014th celebrated Birth of our Savior and King of Kings, God’s Son of man Jesus, who taught person among mankind, having already taught ‘Obey my commands, ask, seek, knock all will be opened to you’:
“Disciples ask “Why do you speak in parables?Original Text, “AMERICAN DICTIONARY of the English Language,” our Archetypal Republic under God Definition of “PERSON noun per'sn. [Latin persona; said to be compounded of per, through or by, and sonus, sound; a Latin word signifying primarily a mask used by actors on the state.] 1. An individual human being consisting of body and soul. We apply the word to living beings only, possessed of a rational nature; the body when dead is not called a person It is applied alike to a man, woman or CHILD. A person is a thinking intelligent being. 2. A man, woman or child, considered as opposed to things, or distinct from them. 3. A human being, considered with respect to the living body or corporeal existence only. The form of her person is elegant. You'll find her person difficult to gain. The rebels maintained the fight for a small time, and for their persons showed no want of courage. 4. A human being, indefinitely; one; a man. Let a person's attainments be never so great, he should remember he is frail and imperfect;” meaning “Person” is the individual component forming the Whole of the Polity under the One Law within the Laws of the Three Sacred Documents, is equally the Certain, Untransferable Right/ Good of any one from Newborn to death of body; - whenever that occurs, though Not death of Soul which is specifically each-one-person’s last day of judgment, though all children go straight to our Everlasting Father in His Rhealm of Heaven.
‘Because it is granted to you to understand the open secrets of the Realm of heaven, but it is not granted to these others. For he who has, to him shall more be given and richly given, but whoever has not, from him shall be taken even what he has. ...In their case the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled:
You will hear and hear but never understand, you will see and see but never perceive.
For the heart of this people is obtuse, their ears are heavy of hearing, their eyes they have closed, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they understand with their heart and turn again for me to cure them..
I tell you truly, many prophets and good men have longed to see what you see, but they have not seen it; and to hear what you hear, but they have not heard it.
Now, listen to the parable of the sower [teacher, journalist, writer, music, history, science, art, specifically, language and communication of ideas, of knowledge]. When anyone hears the word of the Realm and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart; that is the man who hears the word and accepts it at once with enthusiasm; he has no root in himself, he does not last, but, when the word bings rouble or persecution, he is at once repelled. As for him who is sown ‘among thorns,’ that is the man who listens to the word, but the worry of the world and the delight of being rich choke the word; so it proves unfruitful. As for him who is sown ‘on good soil,’ that is the man who hears the word and understands it; he bears fruit, producing now a hundredfold, now sixty, and now thirtyfold.”– Matt. 13
Children are forgiven since their lives, and those of living plants and animals, along with the inanimate objects among which is the ‘infamous tablet, computer’s sole function’ of binomial-think, black is white if common core or government interest say so-arbitrary rules of conduct-functions as only that which is permitted, are dependent upon their adults in their lives, for all their learning, fortunes and knowledge, wisdom for Truth in Trust, Faith in Promise – the Holy Trinity of “I tell you another thing: if two of you agree on earth about anything you pray for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three have gathered in my name, I am there among them.”.
All adults are “Silence is Agreement” and writing objections do not count as eradicating an absolute perfidy in cruel mental abuse of youth: “Whenever any person is confronted with a situation in which two or more official acts are in conflict, he has the duty to know which is the superior one, and to obey or help enforce the superior one, which, if one of them is the [Bible, Declaration of Independence,] Constitution, means to obey or help enforce the Bible, Declaration, Constitution. This duty cannot be delegated to another person: not to a superior, a court, or a legal advisor. It is not a defense that one was ignorant of the law or just doing one's job or following orders. This is sometimes called the Principle of Nuremberg, the WWII gasing and torture of Religion attached to person; continuing to this flashing cursor in Syria and Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, and any Middle Eastern or smaller nation under Islamic/ re-Rise of the Ottoman Empire..i.e 1611 Moors, 09/11/1673 against the Holy Roman Empire in Vienna, previously in Russia, 09/11/2001 Twin Towers, 09/11/2012 Killing of Americans on American Soil not guarded by US Marines, Benghazi, Lebanon; and the violations of The Ten Commandments by Common Core Curriculum as well as most of the 16 to 24 years, 5 day week years, minus vacation and holidays, of State and Federal indoctrination disguised as education.
. .....These children are forced to perform the “human-body-penguin-wobbles,” again, at the ‘full program’; which doesn’t even count the perpetration of penguin arithmetic, penguin reading, penguin writing....wobbly-black - white, yes - no, tablets for excellence - binomial-group-robot-think- marching for absolute, unquestioned, “cooperation’ to their “authorised” “authority-adults-grouped-into-exactly the same robot-never-question-execrable cruelty of one or very few, arbitrary, unaccountable-persons as ruler of their Rhelm of Penguins* - conduct of all persons man, woman, and children, i.e the collective, mass people among deluded-democracy’s UDHR-“human family” everyBody owes duties to among communities answerable as servants subjugated to the government interests, .
What so many adults, 64 years and younger, right down to all the Youth in the ‘Expressionist’, ignoring history and importance of art and music by their leaders, miss in ignorance of State and Federal indoctrination disguised as education, is that, especially in California since 1954, any language and communication of ideas relating to The One Law of God, the cornerstone and foundation of our Archetypal Republic under God, among all nations in all history of mankind, within the Laws of the Bible, the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United 50 States of America, are formed of, by, and for each-one-person’s good/ right - filial-fidelity contract, transitive and recursive, all the roles of that person’s life, liberty and pursuit of Happiness, knowledge, wisdom for truth in trust, faith in promise, tied by Oath of Office and mutually respect that Soul/ Mind/ Heart/ Will/ Inner Conscience/ Courage and Strength are “the separate and equal station to which” the very narrow and straight path to heaven, the Spirit of God in His Son Jesus Christ who is in Your Holy Ghost, whether you personally, alone, choose to hear that truth, Liberty of Good, or deny it, Liberty of evil, has no physical or environmental characteristics, a.k.a., bodily/ corporeal attributes of NGO-UN/ EU/ World Court/ among deluded-democracies of social-Christians’ ecclesiastics in workers of iniquity, UDHR: stated as arbitrary human precept’s, you may not pick out the numerous conflicts and degradation of language and communication this part of a whole humanist/ UDHR / deluded demockracy represents, but it is a good test of how much you can contrast arbitrary rules of conduct - force, absent conscience and therefore, just law of our Republican Form of government:
“..through this unshackled spirit of free inquiry, new knowledge and new ways of looking at ourselves and the world can be acquired. Without it we are left in ignorance and, subsequently, are unable to improve on our condition. ....Thus completely paraphrasing the total contents of collective, mass people, for the subjugation and enslavement of all life on planet earth, absent Truth, Trust, Promise, God, an individual Person of unique, Immortal-Soul as newborn every 4.3 seconds somewhere on God’s Planet earth within the Universe He Created and enclosed within the entire Periodic Chart of the Elements, including deluded-democracy’s control of mind/ heart/ soul/ will, which does not exist unless it is within the structure of the concrete-mind’s 5 senses as defined ‘socialist-state-government-interest’ by them, alone, through control of all language and communication, multiple corruptions and degradation of
We base our understanding of the world on what we can perceive with our senses and comprehend with our minds. Anything that’s said to make sense should make sense to us as humans; else there is no reason for it to be the basis of our decisions and actions. Supposed transcendent knowledge or intuitions that are said to reach beyond human comprehension cannot instruct us because we cannot relate concretely to them. The way in which humans accept supposed transcendent or religious knowledge is by arbitrarily taking a leap of faith and abandoning reason and the senses. We find this course unacceptable, since all the supposed absolute moral rules that are adopted as a result of this arbitrary leap are themselves rendered arbitrary by the baselessness of the leap itself. Furthermore, there’s no rational way to test the validity or truth of transcendent or religious knowledge or to comprehend the incomprehensible. As a result, we are committed to the position that the only thing that can be called knowledge is that which is firmly grounded in the realm of human understanding and verification. .... [i.e. a demonstrated in fact and evidence, 'self-fulfilling-prophecy']
Human knowledge isn’t perfect. We recognize that the tools for testing knowledge—the human senses and human reason—are fallible, thus rendering tentative all our knowledge and scientific conclusions about the nature of the world. What’s true for our scientific conclusions is even more so for our moral choices and social policies; these latter are subject to continual revision in the light of both the fallible and tentative nature of our knowledge and constant shifts in social conditions. ....
If higher powers are found to exist, powers to which we must respond, we will still base our response on human need and interest in any relationship with these powers. This is because all philosophies and religions we know are created by humans and can’t, in the final analysis, avoid the built-in bias of a human perspective. ...
There is no compelling evidence to justify the belief that the human mind is distinct and separable from the human brain, which is itself a part of the body. All that we know about the personality indicates that every part of it is subject to change caused by physical disease, injury, and death. Thus there are insufficient grounds for belief in a soul or some form of afterlife. ..
As humanists who see potential in people at all levels of society, we encourage an extension of participatory democracy so that decision making becomes more decentralized and involves more people. We look forward to widespread participation in the decision-making process in areas such as the family, the school, the workplace, institutions, and government. In this context we see no place for prejudice on the basis of race, nationality, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, political persuasion, religion, or philosophy. And we see every basis for the promotion of equal opportunity in the economy and in universal education. ...
We realize that effective environmental programs require international cooperation. We know that only international negotiation toward arms reduction will make the world secure from the threat of thermonuclear or biological war. We see the necessity for worldwide education on population growth control as a means toward securing a comfortable place for everyone. And we perceive the value in international communication and exchange of information, whether that communication and exchange involve political ideas, ideological viewpoints, science, technology, culture, or the arts. ...
Because human knowledge must be amended from time to time, and because situations constantly change, human choices must change as well. This renders the current positions on social policy the most adaptable part of the humanist philosophy. As a result, most humanists find it easier to agree on basic principles than on tentative conclusions about the world, but easier to agree on both than on social policies.” at http://americanhumanist.org/Humanism/The_ Humanist_Philosophy_in_Perspective
“PHILOL'OGY, noun [Gr. to love, a word.] 1. Primarily, a love of words, or a desire to know the origin and construction of language. In a more general sense, 2. That branch of literature which comprehends a knowledge of the etymology or origin and combination of words; grammar, the construction of sentences or use of words in language; criticism, the interpretation of authors, the affinities of different languages, and whatever relates to the history or present state of languages. It sometimes includes rhetoric, poetry, history and antiquities.”
Just because the human precept’s distorted-changed definition of ‘reason’ in insisting there is no unique, immortal Soul doesn’t mean there isn’t. The arbitrary, human precept’s reasoning that there is no fixed Laws of Nature, Laws of Nature’s God and therefore no person with certain, unalienable Right/ Good/ Inner Conscience; or that the following is not only, “..religious knowledge by arbitrarily taking a leap of faith..”; but also, not founded in the concrete-5 concrete-hierarchy-sense’s ‘reason’-of corporeal-physiology upon which neurology, psychology, and anatomy depend for air, water, plants, and animals, does not result in the following Axiom the definition of Religion and morality, as well as a statement demonstrating why the 1947-wall of separation between collective-people-church and collective-people-state is a tragic falsehood, the fact in demonstrated evidence why Parks and Recreation, among the administrative-police-state, has to call the Celebration of the 2,014th Birthday of our Savior, and protector, Jesus Christ, “December Nights” and why any City Council, School Board, Article III Judiciary, Legislative Body any location in the Federalist Equilateral triangle would rather surrender all human rights; than acknowledge:
“In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children [and legal immigrants who wish to become Citizens, not by amnesty by rewarding unlawful acts against We the People], under a free government, ought to be instructed. ...No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christine religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
..When I speak of the Christian religion as the basis of government, I do Not mean an ecclesiastical establishment, a creed, or rites, forms, and ceremonies, or any compulsion of conscience [a.k.a workers of iniquity - Liberals].
I mean primitive Christianity in its simplicity as taught by Christ and His apostles, consisting in a belief in the being, perfections, and moral government of God; in the revelation of His will to men, as their supreme rule of action; in man’s accountability to God for his conduct in this life; and in the indispensable obligation of all men to yield entire obedience to God’s commands in the moral law and in the Gospel. This belief and this practice may consist with different forms of church government, which, not being essential to Christianity, need not enter into any system of education [or government form].” --Noah Webster
* “Mr. Popper’s Penguins” by Florence and Richard Atwater, won the 1938 Newberry Award; but what the Atwater’s wrote and what Common Core has re-written have absolutely no connections except the word ‘penguin’ and even that was a very different animal for knowledge, wisdom, truth in trust, faith 76 years ago, which makes it fair-game for human precept to distort the analogies for no truth, trust, God required against youth of today learning any concept of demonstrated fact in evidence v. “no credibility or probability, Truth is irrelevant - “UDHR #19 opinion without interference regardless of frontier,” jurisdiction, jurisprudence.
1828 AMERICAN DICTIONARY of the English Language – philology of language and communication ranging throughout the history of mankind, especially 1500's through early 1800's:
Definitions of words at http://webstersdictionary1828.com/Home?word=Soul
[INDEPEND'ENCE, noun [in and dependence.] 1. A state of being not dependent; complete exemption from control, or the power of others; as the independence of the Supreme Being.
2. A state in which a person does not rely on others for subsistence; ability to support one's self.
3. A state of mind in which a person acts without bias or influence from others; exemption from undue influence; self-direction. independence of mind is an important qualification in a judge.
Declaration of independence the solemn declaration of the Congress of the United States of America, on the 4th of July 1776, by which they formally renounced their subjection to the government of Great Britain.
REASON, noun re'zn. [Latin ratio, which is from ratus, and which proves reor to be contracted from redo, redor, and all unite with rod, Latin radius, etc. Gr. to say or speak, whence rhetoric. See Read.] 1. That which is thought or which is alleged in words, as the ground or cause of opinion, conclusion or determination. I have reasons which I may choose not to disclose. You ask me my reasons. I freely give my reasons. The judge assigns good reasons for his opinion, reasons which justify his decision. Hence in general, 2. The cause, ground, principle or motive of any thing said or done; that which supports or justifies a determination, plan or measure. Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for that goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness. 1 Peter 3:15. 3. Efficient cause. He is detained by reason of sickness. Spain in thin sown of people, partly by reason of its sterility of soil Sir Francis Bacon The reason of the motion of the balance in a wheel-watch is by motion of the next wheel.
Hale 4. Final cause.
REASON, in the English language, is sometimes taken for true and clear principles; sometimes for clear and fair deductions; sometimes for the cause, particularly the final cause.
5. A faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes truth from falsehood, and good from evil, and which enables the possessor to deduce inferences from facts or from propositions.
Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul, reason's comparing balance rules the whole - That sees immediate good by present sense, reason the future and the consequence. Alexander Pope REASON is the director of man's will. Hooker 6. Ratiocination; the exercise of reason
But when by reason she the truth has found - Davies 7. Right; justice; that which is dictated or supported by reason Every man claims to have reason on his side. I was promised on a time to have reason for my rhyme. Spenser 8. Reasonable claim; justice. God brings good out of evil, and therefore it were but reason we should trust God to govern his own world. The Right Reverend Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667), cleric Church of England 9. Rationale; just account.
This reason did the ancient fathers render, why the church was called catholic. Pearson
10. Moderation; moderate demands; claims which reason and justice admit or prescribe.
The most probable way of bringing France to reason would be by the making an attempt on the Spanish West Indies - Addison In reason in all reason in justice; with rational ground.
When any thing is proved by as good arguments as a thing of that kind is capable of, we ought not in reason to doubt of its existence. Tillotson
RE'ASON, verb intransitive 1. To exercise the faculty of reason; to deduce inferences justly from premises. Brutes do not reason; children reason imperfectly.
2. To argue; to infer conclusions from premises, or to deduce new or unknown propositions from previous propositions which are known or evident. To reason justly is to infer from propositions which are known, admitted or evident, the conclusions which are natural, or which necessarily result from them. Men may reason within themselves; they may reason before a court or legislature; they may reason wrong as well as right.
3. To debate; to confer or inquire by discussion or mutual communication of thoughts, arguments or reasons. And they reasoned among themselves. Matthew 16:8.
1. To reason with, to argue with; to endeavor to inform, convince or persuade by argument. reason with a profligate son, and if possible, persuade him of his errors.
2. To discourse; to talk; to take or give an account. Stand still, that I may reason with you before the Lord, of all the righteous acts of the Lord. obsolete 1 Samuel 12:7.
RE'ASON, verb transitive
1. To examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss. I reasoned the matter with my friend. When they are clearly discovered, well digested and well reasoned in every part, there is beauty in such a theory. Burnet
2. To persuade by reasoning or argument; as, to reason one into a belief of truth; to reason one out of his plan; to reason down a passion.
FACT, noun [Latin factum, from facio, to make or do.] 1. Any thing done, or that comes to pass; an act; a deed; an effect produced or achieved; an event. Witnesses are introduced into court to prove a fact Facts are stubborn things. To deny a fact knowingly is to lie.
2. Reality; truth; as, in fact So we say, indeed.
EV'IDENCE, noun [Latin evidentia, from video, to see.] 1. That which elucidates and enables the mind to see truth; proof arising from our own perceptions by the senses, or from the testimony of others, or from inductions of reason. Our senses furnish evidence of the existence of matter, of solidity, of color, of heat and cold, of a difference in the qualities of bodies, of figure , etc. The declarations of a witness furnish evidence of facts to a court and jury; and reasoning, or the deductions of the mind from facts or arguments, furnish evidence of truth or falsehood.
2. Any instrument or writing which contains proof. I delivered the evidence of the purchase to Baruch. Jeremiah 32:12. I subscribed the evidence and sealed it. Jeremiah 32:10.
3. A witness; one who testifies to a fact. This sense is improper and inelegant, though common, and found even in Johnson's writings.
EV'IDENCE, verb transitive To elucidate; to prove; to make clear to the mind; to show in such a manner that the mind can apprehend the truth, or in a manner to convince it. The testimony of two witnesses is usually sufficient to evidence the guilt of an offender. The works of creation clearly evidence the existence of an infinite first cause.
FAITH, noun [Latin fides, fido, to trust; Gr. to persuade, to draw towards any thing, to conciliate; to believe, to obey. In the Greek Lexicon of Hederic it is said, the primitive signification of the verb is to bind and draw or lead, as signifies a rope or cable. But this remark is a little incorrect. The sense of the verb, from which that of rope and binding is derived, is to strain, to draw, and thus to bind or make fast. A rope or cable is that which makes fast. Heb.]
1. Belief; the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting on his authority and veracity, without other evidence; the judgment that what another states or testifies is the truth. I have strong faith or no faith in the testimony of a witness, or in what a historian narrates.
2. The assent of the mind to the truth of a proposition advanced by another; belief, or probable evidence of any kind.
3. In theology, the assent of the mind or understanding to the truth of what God has revealed. Simple belief of the scriptures, of the being and perfections of God, and of the existence, character and doctrines of Christ, founded on the testimony of the sacred writers, is called historical or speculative faith; a faith little distinguished from the belief of the existence and achievements of Alexander or of Cesar.
4. Evangelical, justifying, or saving faith is the assent of the mind to the truth of divine revelation, on the authority of God's testimony, accompanied with a cordial assent of the will or approbation of the heart; an entire confidence or trust in God's character and declarations, and in the character and doctrines of Christ, with an unreserved surrender of the will to his guidance, and dependence on his merits for salvation. In other words, that firm belief of God's testimony, and of the truth of the gospel, which influences the will, and leads to an entire reliance on Christ for salvation. Being justified by faith Romans 5:1. Without faith it is impossible to please God. Hebrews 11:1. For we walk by faith and not by sight. 2 Corinthians 5:7. With the heart man believeth to righteousness. Romans 10:6.
The faith of the gospel is that emotion of the mind, which is called trust or confidence, exercised towards the moral character of God, and particularly of the Savior. FAITH is an affectionate practical confidence in the testimony of God. FAITH is an affectionate practical confidence in the testimony of God.
FAITH is a firm, cordial belief in the veracity of God, in all the declarations of his word; or a full and affectionate confidence in the certainty of those things which God has declared, and because he has declared them.
5. The object of belief; a doctrine or system of doctrines believed; a system of revealed truths received by christians. They heard only, that he who persecuted us in times past, now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. Galatians 1:23. 6. The promises of God, or his truth and faithfulness. shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? Rom 3. 7. An open profession of gospel truth. Your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. Rom 1.
8. A persuasion or belief of the lawfulness of things indifferent. Hast thou faith? Have it to thyself before God. Rom 14. 9. Faithfulness; fidelity; a strict adherence to duty and fulfillment of promises. Her failing, while her faith to me remains, I would conceal. Children in whom is no faith Deuteronomy 32:20. 10. Word or honor pledged; promise given; fidelity. He violated his plighted faith For you alone I broke my faith with injured Palamon. 11. Sincerity; honesty; veracity; faithfulness. We ought in good faith to fulfill all our engagements.
12. Credibility or truth. Unusual.] The faith of the foregoing narrative.
INIQ'UITY, noun [Latin iniquitas; in and oequitas, equity.] 1. Injustice; unrighteousness; a deviation from rectitude; as the iniquity of war; the iniquity of the slave trade. 2. Want of rectitude in principle; as a malicious prosecution originating in the iniquity of the author.
3. A particular deviation from rectitude; a sin or crime; wickedness; any act of injustice. Your iniquities have separated between you and your God. Isaiah 59:2. 4. Original want of holiness or depravity. I was shapen in iniquity Psalms 51:5.
ARCHETYPAL, adjective Original; constituting a model or pattern.
MODEL, noun mod'l. [Latin modulus, from modus.] 1. A pattern of something to be made; any thing of a particular form, shape or construction, intended for imitation; primarily, a small pattern; a form in miniature of something to be made on a larger scale; as the model of a building; the model of a fort. 2. A mold; something intended to give shape to castings. 3. Pattern; example; as, to form a government on the model of the British or American constitution.
4. Standard; that by which a thing is to be measured. He that despairs, measures Providence by his own contracted model 5. In painting and sculpture, that which is to be copied or imitated; as the naked human form. 6. A pattern; any thing to be imitated. Take Cicero, lord Chatham or Burke, as a model of eloquence; take Washington as a model of prudence, integrity and patriotism; above all, let Christ be the model of our benevolence, humility, obedience and patience. 7. A copy; representation; something made in imitation of real life; as anatomical models, representing the parts of the body. General Pfiffer constructed a model of the mountainous parts of Switzerland.
MOD'EL, verb transitive To plan or form in a particular manner; to shape; to imitate in planning or forming; as, to model a house or a government; to model an edifice according to the plan delineated.
DECIS'ION, noun 1. Determination, as of a question or doubt; final judgment or opinion, in a case which has been under deliberation or discussion; as the decision of the Supreme Court. He has considered the circumstances of the case and come to a decision
2. Determination of a contest or event; end of a struggle; as the decision of a battle by arms.
3. In Scotland, a narrative or report of the proceedings of the Court of Sessions.
4. Report of the opinions and determinations of any tribunal. We say, read the decisions of the Court of King's Bench.
5. Act of separation; devision.
ARBITRARY, adjective [Latin arbitrarious.] 1. Depending on will or discretion; not governed by any fixed rules; as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment.
ARBITRARY power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. George Washington 2. Despotic; absolute in power; having no external control; as, an arbitrary prince or government.
DESPOSTIC, DESPOTICAL, adjective 1. Absolute in power; independent of control from men, constitution or laws; arbitrary in the exercise of power; as a despotic prince. 2. Unlimited or unrestrained by constitution, laws or men; absolute; arbitrary; as despotic authority or power.
3. Tyrannical.
TYR'ANNY, noun 1. Arbitrary or despotic exercise of power; the exercise of power over subjects and others with a rigor not authorized by law or justice, or not requisite for the purposes of government. Hence tyranny is often synonymous with cruelty and oppression. 2. Cruel government or discipline; as the tyranny of a master. 3. Unresisted and cruel power.
4. Absolute monarchy cruelly administered. 5. Severity; rigor; inclemency. The tyranny o' th' open night.
SUBJUGATE, verb transitive [Latin Sub and jugo, to yoke. See Yoke.] To subdue and bring under the yoke of power or dominion; to conquer by force and compel to submit to the government or absolute control of another. He subjugated a king, and called him his vassal.
[Subjugate differs from subject only in implying a reduction to a more tyrannical or arbitrary sway; but they are often used as synonymous.]
RIGHTEOUSNESS, noun ri'chusness. 1. Purity of heart and rectitude of life; conformity of heart and life to the divine law. righteousness as used in Scripture and theology, in which it is chiefly used, is nearly equivalent to holiness, comprehending holy principles and affections of heart, and conformity of life to the divine law. It includes all we call justice, honesty and virtue, with holy affections; in short, it is true religion. 2. Applied to God, the perfection or holiness of his nature; exact rectitude; faithfulness. 3. The active and passive obedience of Christ, by which the law of God is fulfilled. Daniel 9:7. 4. Justice; equity between man and man. Luke 1:75.
5. The cause of our justification. The Lord our righteousness Jeremiah 23:6.
SOUL, noun 1. The spiritual, rational and immortal substance in man, which distinguishes him from brutes; that part of man which enables him to think and reason, and which renders him a subject of moral government. The immortality of the soul is a fundamental article of the christian system. Such is the nature of the human soul that it must have a God, an object of supreme affection.
2. The understanding; the intellectual principle. The eyes of our soul then only begin to see, when our bodily eye are closing.
3. Vital principle. Thou son, of this great world both eye and soul
4. Spirit; essence; chief part; as charity, the soul of all the virtues. Emotion is the soul of eloquence.
5. Life; animation principle or part; as, an able commander is the soul of an army.
6. Internal power. There is some soul of goodness in things evil.
7. A human being; a person. There was no a soul present. In Paris there are more than seven hundred thousand souls. London, Westminster, Southwark and the suburbs, are said to contain twelve hundred thousand souls. 8. Animal life. To deliver their soil from death, and to keep them alive in famine. Psalms 33:7. 9. Active power. And heaven would fly before the driving soul 10. Spirit; courage; fire; grandeur of mind. That he wants caution he must needs confess, but not a soul to give our arms success. 11. Generosity; nobleness of mind; a colloquial use.
12. An intelligent being. Every soul in heav'n shall bend the knee. 13. Heart; affection. The soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David. I Sam. 18. 14. In Scripture, appetite; as the full soul; the hungry soul Proverbs 27:7. Job 33:18. 15. A familiar compellation of a person, but often expressing some qualities of the mind; as alas, poor soul; he was a good soul”]
