Painfully and with enforced mental readjustments, they began a philosophical search for excuses and justifications for the idea.
I was sorry for that, because I should have been glad to trace the patent readjustments by which the conquest of animated nature had been attained.
But these readjustments are insignificant in comparison with the social inertia that perpetuates all the classes, and even such shifts as occur at once re-establish artificial conditions for the next generation.