First, then, we can clear away at once the cruder thoughts of the unintelligent believer in the power of prayer; and those of the scientific objector to prayer, who is not instructed in scriptural doctrine.
But the cruder dragons of Africa are derived either from Egypt, from the Ægean, or from India.
Like these sciences, religion retains much of the material of the cruder phase of thought that is displayed in myth, alchemy, and astrology, but it has been refined and elaborated.
And thus his conclusions imply rejection of mechanism in the cruder sense.
The cruder amateurs should not feel discouraged by the extraordinary average scholarship of the recent element, but should rather use it as a model for improvement.
It has been suggested that if each experienced and educated amateur would assume a personal and sympathetic advisory position toward some one of the younger or cruder members, much actual good might result.
It is, however, a far inferior production, in which the quaintness of the model is replaced by coarse caricature and its delicate rusticity by a cruder realism.
This is, however, but to repeat in cruder form Mr. Swinburne's contention.
Nevertheless, the cruder female fights still with her male right arm, and the more cultured female, with tongue and tactics.
Over-development of the large and cruder muscles dwarfs those smaller and more delicate ones which adapt to the softer and subtler departments of faculty.
The following is an interesting example of the manner in which cruder and lower-grade power may be increased at the cost of higher faculties.
It obliges us, as well, to moderate our activities, and, by thus restricting the output of our cruder powers, our resources are husbanded and directed into higher channels.
And the less their systems have rebelled against and have rejected, but, on the contrary, have conformed to and have thriven upon such brute-diet, the cruder are their organisations.
The cruderthe species or the evolutionary stage of species, the less Sex is specialised in it.
According to the more detailed views of Galen and his school the blood was perfected and had its central source not in the heart, but in the liver, to which the portal vein brought a cruder liquid derived from the products of digestion.
Most of us have known something of all this finer work, but not that they had much to do with cruder industries also.
It is on this basis that the printers of today are returning to "old-style," and other more or less obsolete styles of type which are less legible and give a cruder appearance to the page than the "modern.
In cruderconditions there was not much out of which to build up happiness.
And the New Testament analogue marks the true ethical valuation of all the external religious manifestations, even of the cruder forms of prophecy itself.
Or again, increasing knowledge of weather and seasons, of plants and animals, of sickness and disease, discredits many of the taboos and ceremonials which the cruder beliefs had regarded as essential to welfare.
To an American observer the whole exhibition seems cruder than a Comanche wardance.
It made us feel almost angry to see them tattooed, their nostrils and ears pierced with rings, and awkwardly bedecked with cheap jewelry, like their cruder sisters of the Malay Archipelago.
To the less exacting but eager demands of this class the publishers catered with coarser designs, cruder colours, and more careless printing.
With crudercolour and composition, they carried still farther the vulgarities of Utamaro's declining period.
Saul and David were judged by the numbers of their thousands slain; but the test was a crude one for them and cruder still for fiction.
Nothing in Los Angeles, perhaps, has ever been cruder than this popular eating-place.
Stores were lighted in the same manner: first with candles, then with camphine and finally with coal-oil, during which period of advancement lamps replaced the cruder contrivances.
The details of his motivation of the ceremonial laws are very interesting, and in many cases they anticipated, though in a cruder form, the more scientific theories of modern critics.
But it is their distance from the prime source, which increases with every transmission of influence, together with the cruder nature of the receiving substance, that makes the resulting forms corporeal and sensible.
Or in the course of events a new religion is brought by missionary impulse into a less-developed civilisation, as when Buddhism passed from China through Corea into Japan, and was planted in the midst of a cruder faith.
But the intellectual range of thought even in the lower culture is much wider than might have been anticipated; while the higher religions contain abundant survivals of the cruder imagination which simply loves a tale.
But the older and cruder ideas of the nature of the gods left a persistent trace in the ritual with which they were worshipped, as well as in the designs of the artists who reflected the popular traditions.
In more primitive Patagonia the cruder form of worship persists, a certain tree standing upon a hill being still resorted to by numerous worshippers, each of whom brings his offering.
Progress is the transformation of the physical into the spiritual; of the lower and cruder and denser life into the finer, the more potent, the more ethereal.
In its cruder and denser form there is only a low degree of potency, and in its more ethereal forms is there higher potency.
But if we consider only the cruder forms of civilization the same point appears with equal clearness.
The part played in this process by the cruderpopulations must not be underestimated.
The cruder touches of other two-act forms are forgotten and the entire effort is concentrated on making an appeal to the "ideal.
The present tendency of the two-act seems to be to present clever characterization--and so to win by artistic acting, as before it won by cruder methods.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cruder" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
