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Then we answer the divinity in the words, 'Thou art,' and thus we affirm that the true, primordial, and only adequate greeting for him is to declare that he is.— Christentum als mystische Tatsache und die Mysterien des Altertums. English
And since many of our youths have elected to be pagan, what can you expect So your Geoffrey Fox being pagan, primitive--primordial, whatever it is now the fashion to call it, reverted to type, and you were the victim I have read his letter and might find it in my heart to forgive him were it not that he has made you suffer; but that I cannot forgive; although, indeed, his coming blindness is something that pleads for him, and his fear of it--and his fear of losing you I am glad that you are coming home to me.— Mistress Anne
These different types are manifested from the very beginning of embryonic life; the characters distinguishing them are therefore primordial, and we can say with M. Milne-Edwards that everything goes to prove that the distinction established by Nature between animals belonging to different phyla is a primordial distinction_" (p. 58 In other directions also von Baer's work was confirmed and extended by later observers--those parts of it particularly that had reference to the germ-layer theory, and to the concept of histological differentiation.— Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
The selfish and ugly passions which are primordial--which have the incalculable strength of inheritance from the time when animal consciousness began--have had but little opportunity to grow weak from disuse.— The Destiny of Man Viewed in the Light of His Origin
She saw the coast of Kolyuchin Bay--primordial desolation, whirling dust-like snow, the unleashed wind yelling like a sabbath of witches, leaping and somersaulting from rock to rock, folly-stricken and insensate in its hideous dance of death.— A Man's Woman

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