They must either thermoconform to their environment, if their environmental temperature is relatively constant or if they can tolerate fluctuations in T_b, or use behavioral regulatory mechanisms to maintain a T_b that is somewhat independent of environmental temperature.

No state of mind or passage of time can perform the alchemy needed to convert nonacts into acts.

[…]; and some part of that influence [of the government], which would otherwise have been possessed as in a sort of mortmain and unalienable domain, returned again to the great ocean from whence it arose, […]

Moved beyond his custom, Gama said