subserves

The only practical purpose which it now subserves in American politics is to give enough exercise to Radicalism to keep it “in wind,” and to prevent its becoming pursy and lazy, from having nothing to whip.

The Failed Project of Conservatism « Isegoria 2008

Language is a third use which Nature subserves to man.

Nature 2006

Kant's insight -- in some sense his only insight, since everything else subserves this -- is put very roughly that if it is rational to believe:

Desert and Rational Hope 2005

Secondly, in water animals there is but short space of time for the perception of savours, and as the use of this sense is thus of short duration, shortened also is the separate part which subserves it.

On the Parts of Animals 2002

As every instrument and every bodily member subserves some partial end, that is to say, some special action, so the whole body must be destined to minister to some Plenary sphere of action.

On the Parts of Animals 2002

In other words, he represents art as only true to its own nature when it subserves religion.

Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher Forster, Michael 2002

The design plan specifies a particular way of working that subserves that purpose.

Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

Now, the human form is the highest of all forms, because it subserves the highest of all uses.

Bygone Beliefs 1969

Any work which contributes to this end is worthy of our high regard and subserves a noble purpose; for it is only when the details of home-life are given to the public, that proper interest in them will be developed, and we can hope for a better state of things in this first form of associated life.

The Christian Home Samuel Philips

It thus most powerfully subserves the ends of private and individual morality, just as historical science, which, as Professor

Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles W. R. Washington Sullivan