On the contrary, abrupt transitions should be shunned as dangerous to order and law, which alone are certain to insure a steady collective progress; the only means to this end consisting in the general spread of education, to secure which, at least for his children, the working man should spare no pains.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
Still their language is essentially Malay; and their physical conformation passes into that of the Malays by numerous transitions.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
The party managers in the 1900 convention hoped by making him Vice-President to remove him from competition for the presidency in 1904. But the most unexpected of the many swift transitions in his career foiled their calculations and brought him in a moment to the summit of a citizen's ambition.
"History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6)"
E. Benjamin Andrews