He finds his materials already created, and he merely appropriates them, and adapts them to his own uses by labour, exactly as he does with the soil that in his hands becomes fruitful fields.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
It always adapts itself to the subject who receives it.
"Letters of Madam Guyon"
P. L. Upham
While it seems to have no consistency of its own, so to speak, it adapts itself to the state of others with wonderful facility.
"Letters of Madam Guyon"
P. L. Upham