What, then, are the human instincts and requirements which give society its fundamental characters?

Of great antiquity, Wu-ism has changed in some ways its outward aspect, but has not altered its fundamental characters.

One of the fundamental characters of the living protoplasm (using the word now in its widest sense) is its extreme instability.

Until the payment of an indemnity the amount of which is as yet not definitely stated, Germany loses the fundamental characters of a sovereign state.