Second, it has remarkably few begetters, certainly for such a permissive age.
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From these two begetters, contemplative country hikers and argumentative city schleppers, all other walking descends.
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Teachers report children of seven turning up in nappies because the notion of lavatory training escapes their begetters.
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And they contrast not only as individuals, but in relationship to their fathers as begetters and whose reflections they bear.
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But politicians have recently sought their scapegoats more widely, from energy companies to technology giants, and the charges have broadened from tax avoidance to being the begetters of inequality.
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Vergil's De Inventoribus Rerum was published in 1499, having been written in only three months. It was a history of origins and inventions, describing in three books the "first begetters" of all human activities. Book I investigated the origin of the gods and the word "God", along with such matters as the creation, marriage, religion and learning. Book II covered, among other topics, the origins of law, time, military science, money, precious metals and art.
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Chapter eleven, Religious Sanctions on Village Unity and the Organization of Village Cults, describes belief in a single god, "Njambi", whose action in the world is mediated by various spiritual beings; ritual (sexual) segregations and taboos; the village cults of "begetters" and of diviners, membership of which imparted spiritual authority and occult knowledge. Her analysis of the most senior of these, the Pangolin cult (reserved to those who had engendered a male and a female child with the same wife, among other restrictions), became a byword for Mary Douglas's ethnographic insight.Richard Fardon, Mary Douglas: An Intellectual Biography (Routledge, 1999), pp. 70, 209.
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In an opinion authored by Justice Holmes, the Supreme Court held that protection of a state's quasi-sovereign right to regulate game is a sufficient jurisdictional basis for that State to enjoin enforcement of federal regulations over the subject alleged to be unconstitutional. However, the Supreme Court ruled that the law at issue was constitutional, noting that Article VI, clause 2, sometimes known as the "supremacy clause," makes treaties the "supreme law of the land," thus nullifying any state-level concerns with regard to the provisions of any treaty. The ruling further implied that treaty provisions were not subject to questioning by the states under the process of judicial review. In the course of his judgment, Holmes made this remark on the nature of the Constitution: > With regard to that we may add that when we are dealing with words that also > are a constituent act, like the Constitution of the United States, we must > realize that they have called into life a being the development of which > could not have been foreseen completely by the most gifted of its begetters.
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