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• Living acting, conceiving,—these must form a triple cord within every child of man, though the sound now of this string, now of that may preponderate, and then again of two together. —  Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel
• In no one of these cases did the elements of moral strength and societal health preponderate, but the history of each showed the great stability produced by a strong ethos. —  Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
• Therefore it should not be classed as a distinct sense of touch On the contrary, The Philosopher says (De Anima iii, 1): "There is no other besides the five senses I answer that, The reason of the distinction and number of the senses has been assigned by some to the organs in which one or other of the elements preponderate, as water, air, or the like. —  Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
• Otherwise falsities from evil would preponderate, and would affect the simple good who are in the outmosts regions of heaven, and who can be more easily perverted than the angels themselves; and thereby equilibrium would perish, and with it freedom in men 541. —  Heaven and its Wonders and Hell
• But it was now evident that the number of its Gentile adherents would soon very much preponderate, and that, ere long, the keeping of the typical law would become the peculiarity of a small minority of its members. —  The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution

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