Why, I wonder, have neither he nor any of his exponents put this difference before us in such plain words that we should readily apprehend it?
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
Looking at it in this way the old exponents of these things regarded the Active principle as Masculine, and the Passive as Feminine, the one generating and the other nutritive, corresponding to the words rouah and hoshech, the expansion and compression principles in the Hebrew text of the opening verses of Genesis.
"The Law and the Word"
Thomas Troward
Our improvements, like our entertainments, our funerals, our holidays, and our very loves, are but Friendship Village exponents of the modern spirit.
"Friendship Village"
Zona Gale