Do ideals, symbols and beliefs lead people to act as they do? Or are the wellsprings of action and the drivers of history less ethereal: money, fear, the thirst for power, circumstance and opportunity, with culture as an afterthought? Scholars in the first camp are culturalists; in the second, materialists.
In process of time, by studying the symptoms in life and the lesions after death, we may be able to resolve genetous idiocy into some new or old classes.
The effects of hemoglobin in anemia and chlorosis, and even in tuberculosis, are due to its triple action; it acts opotherapeutically, through the blood oxydases, which it contains when properly prepared.
The crowd cheered as a firebrand was tossed onto the huge pile of wood to start the traditional homecoming bonfire.