To demand any demonstrative proof of the transition in the race would therefore be antecedently absurd.
This, of course, is what an evolutionist knows antecedently must be the case somewhere in the course of any inquiry touching the process of evolution, wherever he may have occasion to trace it.
Consequently, as I have said, we should antecedently expect to find that the roots are the earliest discoverable (though not on this account necessarily the most primitive) elements of all languages.
On grounds of analogy, therefore, we should deem it antecedently improbable that the process of evolution, elsewhere so uniform and ubiquitous, should have been interrupted at its terminal phase.
Antecedently we might form various anticipations on this head, such as that they should be imitative of natural sounds, expressive of concrete ideas, and so forth.
For all such instances of the apposite use of words or phrases by talking birds are found on inquiry to be due, as antecedently we should expect that they must, to the principle of association.
That speech from the first should have been concerned with the naming of generic ideas, or higher recepts, as well as with particular objects of sense, is what the evolutionist would antecedently expect.
The mere fact that many words which have survived as roots are words expressive of general ideas, is no more than we might have antecedently expected.
It is of course not impossible that even a multitude of teachers should agree in imparting precisely the same doctrine; but in the case of the Upanishads that is certainly not antecedently probable.
We can never have a regard to the virtue of an action, unless the action be antecedently virtuous.
Their want of a sufficient degree of reason may hinder them from perceiving the duties and obligations of morality, but can never hinder these duties from existing; since they must antecedently exist, in order to their being perceived.
The Calmucks are considered as remarkably lenient in their conduct to the women: but fathers dispose of their daughters without their consent, and even antecedently to their birth.
It was a declaration of what he was antecedently to his conception by the overshadowing influence of the Holy Spirit.
It is not simony against divine law to buy or sell things annexed to spirituals antecedently (e.
The temporal thing is annexed antecedently if it precedes the spiritual thing as its prepared or appointed or presupposed matter or subject.
The considerations involved in the assumption of the necessity and reasonableness of such a revelation, however, are antecedently incredible and contrary to reason.
But it is not the antecedently existing values, as antecedently existing, that give value to the new piece of wealth.
The value of a thing newly created can be explained only with reference to values antecedently existing.
It would, moreover, seem antecedently improbable that every church of Christ, however small, should be required to have a plural eldership, particularly since churches exist that have only a single male member.
Antecedently to regeneration, there can be no suspension of the selfish principle.
Nor is the health the man antecedently possessed (or which somebody has) the thing which he judges to be a value; the thing judged to be a value is the restoring of health--something by description not yet existing.
It is not necessary that antecedently given values should be the data of the valuation; and where they are given data they are only terms in the determination of a not yet existing value.
Such was the mighty enginery antecedently set in motion, to crush the liberties of the Transvaal.
The materials for the condition of Germany at the beginning of the last century, antecedently to the introduction of the new influences which created rationalism,(42) are conveyed in Weismann, Introductio in Memorabilia Eccl.
But antecedently to all exercise of human thought, antecedently to our conception of the nature of a thing, the thing has not for us formal or actual ontological truth: it has only fundamental or potential ontological truth.
But it does not seem possible in this case, or indeed in any case, to prove the existence of the causal relation antecedently to that of the real distinction, or to utilize the former as an index to the latter.
It is, of course, in the things antecedently to any judgment we form about the things; and the logical truth of our judgments is dependent on it, for logical truth is the conformity of our judgments with the real nature of things.
Creative power or activity does not need any pre-existing subject on which to exercise its influence, any subject in whose passive potentiality the thing to be created is antecedently implicit.
Antecedently to the act of comparison the formally relative element of the relation, its "esse ad," was not anything actual; it was the mere comparability of the extremes in virtue of the foundation.
Hence it follows that the ontological truth of things is not known by the mind antecedently to the formation of the mental type.
It would seem antecedently that we ought to commence with the simplest social forms in a state as near as possible to their rudimentary condition.
There are always certain ideas existing antecedently on which the sense of convenience works, and of which it can do no more than form some new combination; and to find these ideas in the present case is exactly the problem.
Whatever definition be given of miracles, such exceptional phenomena must at least be antecedently incredible.
Similar miracles are reported long antecedently to the first promulgation of Christianity, and continued to be performed for centuries after it.
On examining other portions of his narrative, we find that they present the features which the miraculous elements rendered antecedently probable.
Let us too, according to the power given to us, partake of such attention antecedently in some detail: albeit, as always, very little can be tracked of the length and breadth of our theme.
It was thus, then, antecedently more probable, than in any imaginable beginning from which reason can start, Something should be found existent, rather than Nothing.
I wish briefly to show that this was antecedently to have been expected.
That this one seed, covering with its product a various globe under all imaginable differences of circumstance and climate, should, in the lapse of ages, generate many species of the genus Man, wasantecedently probable.
Let us then consider, antecedently to all experience, with what sort of deity pure reason would have been satisfied.
The preliminary affirmation is not that miracles are impossible, but that they are antecedently incredible.
If the ascent be antecedently incredible, it cannot at the same time be antecedently credible.
Our inquiry into the reality of Divine Revelation, then, whether we consider its contents or its evidence, practically reduces itself to the very simple issue: Are miracles antecedently credible?
On the other hand there are the strongest reasons for affirming that such phenomena are antecedently incredible.
Until they are proved to be Divine truths, these statements must obviously be considered human announcements, and consequently they are antecedently incredible, and the "wildest delusions.
A miracle is notantecedently more credible because of the outstretched arm and word of command, than it is in the silence of the shrine.
Both the Supernatural Religion, therefore, and its supernatural evidence labour under the fatal disability of being antecedently incredible.
The counter allegation is that, although miracles may be antecedently incredible, they nevertheless actually took place.
Newman has said of ambiguous miracles, "antecedently improbable that the Almighty should rest the credit of His Revelation upon events which but obscurely implied His immediate presence.
The evidence which is actually produced, however, so far from satisfying these legitimate anticipations, lacks every one of the qualifications which reason antecedently declares to be necessary.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "antecedently" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
