Re: to unprepare

From: Jacques Guy (jguy_at_alphalink.com.au)
Date: 03/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 23:09:51 +1000

Horace LaBadie wrote:
> In article
> <hwlabadiejr-A1B87D.07364117032005@corp-radius.supernews.com>,
> Horace LaBadie <hwlabadiejr@nospam.highstream.net> wrote:

>>In article <d1bp1a$4dg$00$1@news.t-online.com>,
>> "Ekkehard Dengler" <ED-RS@t-online.de> wrote:

>>"For man in the West is by education, by tradition and by temperament
>>unprepared for the religion of ahimsa..."

> In other words, was not a word simply dropped unintentionally?

To me, "by" does not introduce an agent there, but is
equivalent to (roughly) "from, through, in the wake of".
Like, for instance (I am making this sentence up): "He is
half xyz by birth, full zxy by breeding"