The two ideals are counter posed and mutually excltisive.
Merimee was tried for a week, but the cool cynic and the perfervid apostle of women's rights proved mutually repulsive.
If the analysis given above is correct, the book is not a unit; it contains passages mutually contradictory and not harmonizable.
It is possible, of course, that each explanation is correct in particular cases, as the views are by no means mutually exclusive.
Split up into numerous and mutually hostile communities, they never, through the fourteen centuries which have elapsed since the end of the old Western empire, shook off the yoke of foreigners completely; they never until lately learned to merge their local and conflicting interests in the common good of undivided Italy.
