When Ms. Buck-Morss turns her attention to cultural symmetries, it comes as a bit of relief -- even though she tends to view art in the Marxist manner, asserting that the aesthetic experience should teach a political lesson.
According to Randolph, the Puritan magistrates "were of opinion that God would never suffer me to land again in this country, and thereupon began in a most arbitrary manner to assert their power higher than at any time before".
The "liberty of conscience", so important to Enlightenment thinkers in general, and asserted against all manner of paternalistic authorities (including Protestant), descends from this Protestant assertion.
Young men once headed to the Ivy League to acquire the patina of high culture that would allow them to move in the circles of power — or if they were to the manner born, to assert their place at the top of the social heap by flashing what they already knew.
It is not a concern likely to affect Bishop McHugh, who wrote in the magazine article that Catholic voters are guided by papal doctrine asserted "in a manner that has all the qualities of infallible teaching.
By the time Beasley doubled the advantage, however, the Ibrox side had asserted themselves in the manner to be expected.
Irenaeus asserted in a positive manner the validity of the Jewish Bible (the Old Testament), which the Gnostics denied, claiming that it upheld the laws of the Creator God of wrath.
Bede asserted that they were composed "after the Roman manner", but there is little discernible Roman influence either.
The report asserted that there was no cover-up of the manner of his death, which officials decided was a battlefield accident and not a murder.
Of the residents of one street in the south London neighbourhood of Battersea, the local copper asserted: "People have improved their houses but not their manners".
