England have sacrificed their best batsman in the cause of team spirit by dropping Kevin Pietersen for this week's third Test against South Africa at Lord's, but both parties insist that this does not necessarily spell the end of his international career.
Jonathan Swift writes: "Happiest, beyond all comparison, are those excellent Struldbrugs, who, being born exempt from that universal calamity of human nature, have their minds free and disengaged, without the weight and depression of spirits caused by the continual apprehensions of death!" The thing is, though, that eternal life is not all it's cracked up to be.
On Berkeley's account, the true cause of any phenomenon is a spirit, and most often it is the same spirit, namely, God.
They also include the use of traditional remedies and traditional healers, reflecting Acholi beliefs in the role of spirits, ghosts and charms as causes of poor health.
For theorists such as 17th-century dissenter Thomas Tryon, eating meat was a cause of violence as 'those fierce, revengeful spirits that proceed from the Creature, when the painful agonies of death are upon it... fail not to accompany the flesh, and especially the blood, and have their internal operation, and have their impression on those that eat it'.
The Nakonde people used various types of medicines, for instance, there were medicines that could be used to repel evil spirits as perceived cause of convulsions, however, the main local remedies for treating malaria were, 'namayoka', referred to as cinchona in English, which was taken orally by the children.
Summing up his findings for the British Medical journal in 1894, he robustly dismantled the spiritualist presumption that spirits were the cause of automatic writing by stating bluntly "there is no need nor room for the agency of spirits, and the invocation of such agency is the sign of a mind not merely unscientific, but uninformed".
Two hours before the Florida Supreme Court ruling, two lower-court judges had handed down opinions in absentee-ballot cases that were adverse to Mr. Gore's cause, and the spirits of many campaign officials had sunk in fear of impending defeat.
– opportunistically embraced the cause of Brexit in much the same spirit.
If his father provided Mr. Netanyahu with his historical framework, his brother Yonatan bequeathed on him the model of a Jew who devoted his spirit to the cause of his people's survival.
