Among the lowest races of men, love of property stimulates to the obtainment only of such things as satisfy immediate desires, or desires of the immediate future.
"Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I"
Herbert Spencer
When any particular organ becomes unavailing in the obtainment of supplies, the organ in the course of time becomes aborted or disappears.
"The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays"
J. (John) Joly
In the answers of witnesses, I have myself heard of "No" being substituted for "Yes;" and what guarantee can there be for the obtainment of justice, where a possibility exists of the occurrence of such mistakes-mistakes on which the existence of a fellow-creature might hinge!
"The Present Picture of New South Wales (1811)"
David Dickinson Mann