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Rudimentary organs sometimes retain their potentiality, and are merely not developed: this seems to be the case with the mammć of male mammals, for many instances are on record of these organs having become well developed in full-grown males, and having secreted milk.— On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)
We have no difficulty in believing that mere life_--the potentiality, the material out of which higher things evolve--may go back into the all, to arise again in new manifestations and combinations; but it is otherwise with the highly complex resultant of the evolutionary process which we call personality_, endowed as it is with self-consciousness, with the sense of right and wrong, the capacity for ideals, the faculty of self-giving, a god-like within answering to the God without.— Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive
And this potentiality is rooted in two things--first and principally, in the power of Christ, which is sufficient for the salvation of the whole human race; secondly, in free-will Reply Obj.— Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
1). But the infinite in potentiality which is in creatures can be comprehended by the soul of Christ, since it is compared to that soul according to its essence, in which respect it is not infinite.— Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
But the economic value of the lives destroyed represents only a small fraction of their potentiality--socially, morally, and spiritually.— With Our Soldiers in France
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