He applies these principles, for instance, not only to individual conduct and education, but also to professional practice, social reform, and practical affairs in general.
Schiller's distinction among the three basic human drives of Stofftrieb, Formtrieb, and Speiltrieb Peirce never forgot or renounced, and it became the basis for Peirce's distinction between the man of practical affairs, the man of scientific activity, and the man of aesthetic practice.
In practical affairs, however, the eclectic spirit has much to commend it.
But then he moves on to more practical affairs, talking about his desire to speed up questions in the Commons.
In the following years, however, the leaders of the movement quarreled among themselves, and as a result the movement fragmented and broke up, its leaders turning to practical affairs.
Roosevelt gave it to him in public, but in a notorious letter to a friend in 1909 he claimed Hay's "moral timidity" caused him "to shrink from all that was rough in life, and therefore from practical affairs".
At the moment, religiosity — the substitution of faith for common sense in practical affairs — is running amok in the United States, and intrusions of religion into science, politics, and culture, contrary to the spirit of the Founding Fathers, have become commonplace.
He also appointed Peter Catanii as his vicar to handle the order's practical affairs; after Peter's early death in 1221, Francis replaced him with Brother Elias of Cortona.
They believed some of the stars to be gods and performed rituals to entreat their presence, and they also used astronomy in practical affairs (e.g., to determine when to plant corn).
