As to the monotheistic attitude of Alkmaeon, this is not very surprising, for he was a Pythagoreon, also a mystic with pantheistic tendencies, adhering firmly to the oneness of the whole existence and was known as a bitter and avowed enemy of polytheism and polypragmatism — the belief that nature has various creative forces.

The workers loaded the blast furnace with coke and ore.

Before the 1850s, when women figured most prominently in textile employment, the reasons that caused women to seek paid labor—a ne'er-do-well husband, economic distress of the natal family, or a belief that factory work was a road to self-betterment—often precluded their considering an away-from-home cure.

I went crook at them for not telling me and as soon as she was well enough I took her home to the camping area and she soon picked up.