if there be not in nature a state exactly the opposite of the primary action, it appears to endeavor to indifferentiate itself, that is, to make its superior power available in the extinction of the change wrought in it from without (by the medicine), in the place of which it substitutes its normal state.

The performance was fine until he cracked that dead baby joke.

Most rock bands have ruined things by playing with orchestras / >(Scorpions, Deep Purple.... / If you'd seen DP at the Royal Albert hall with one of the best orchestrae in the world (the LSO), I'm convinced you'd think otherwise.

[…] now, while I stick to my good friends here, I am very contented; but when I ever so little run after sights and fine things, I begin to hate my work, I grow sad, and have no heart to mend shoes any longer.