But as he wrote, Montaigne became more and more his own subject, exploring through introspection his own experience not just as his own but also as the mirror of the universal human condition, a life subject to death and defined by the relative circumstance of historical place, moment, and society in which it is situated.
Or, as Lyons puts it in (1977), 370: "property rights themselves, and not just their exercise or contents, are relative to circumstances".
This, of course, does not mean that the people did not visit relatives when circumstances permitted or when certain religious and ceremonial activities demanded.
Though these factors are likely to be correlated among first-degree relatives, several circumstances argue against these factors as major contributors to our findings.
Should all doctors routinely be asking patients whether they can discuss their medical details with their closest relative in all circumstances or in specified circumstances in the future?
The emigrants included some large families with many marriages between close relatives, a circumstance that can make genetic disease more evident.
Time becomes relative in these circumstances.
Born in 1869 also in Shawbost (Siabost), he was denied, mainly through circumstances – relative poverty, a large family, the harshness of life on Lewis – the benefits of anything but the bones of an education.
At least since "Reasons For Moving" (1968), his second volume, Strand surveyed his outward circumstances — relative health and prosperity, growing fame, the undeniable good fortune of being alive — from a peephole cut into the exterior wall of his solitude.
