Their art is thus a composite structure, in which old forms are combined with altered conditions; in which the fancies of earlier times reappear in a new language, and the spirit of Greece is seen interpenetrating the grave temperament of Rome, and the genial nature of Italy.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
Buddhism has consistently and continually striven to bring about a unity of religion in China by interpenetrating Confucianism and Taoism.
"Buddhism and Buddhists in China"
Lewis Hodus
They are not isolated, but interpenetrating; they come into contact at many points, and the natural is made subordinate and subservient to the moral.
"Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws"
James Buchanan