He had embraced without question the monistic theory of Nature as essentially beneficent and beautiful, and had never faced the principal of dualism which has been and must yet remain the crux of modern philosophy.
After the fifteenth century, our Lord is rarely depicted on the Crux commissa, it being reserved for the two thieves.
But the claim is that it is, and always has been, in Rome, and Bosius, in his Crux Triumphans (p.
IN JULY] One of the finest constellations of the southern hemisphere is Centaurus, The Centaur, which surrounds Crux on the north and is more than 60 deg.
The famous crux ansata, says Mr. Higgins, is to be seen on all the ancient buildings of Egypt; and is the mark alluded to by Ezekiel ix.
I think, Mr. Whyte, that is the crux of your question.
Indeed, that is the crux of the structure on which the Academy is founded.
That is really thecrux of the whole matter; prayer must be conceived as an active intercourse between the worshipper and a Person other than himself, who is the object of his worship.
Twelve mottoes given in prediction from that date, fits the motto "crux de cruce," to the 12th successor of Innocent, viz.
The leading argument against an early date for the Acts is drawn from the possible use by Luke of the writings of Josephus, and the crux of the question is in the words put into the mouth of Gamaliel (Acts v.
The difference in scene between the Galilean Gospels and the Jerusalem Gospel presents no great difficulty, but the crux of the problem is in the difference in style and subject matter.
In this supremely lucid way, Sismondi sets out and underlines the real crux of the dispute.
No more did the problem of crises obscure the real crux of the problem: for the first time, the argument centred purely in the reproduction of capital as a whole, in accumulation.
He died in 1640, and was buried in St. Crux Church, York.
The manuscript Registers of the Parish of St. Crux are in the College of Arms: the manuscript extracts do not commence until the year 1678.
Returning however to the matter more particularly in hand, it should be pointed out that the crux ansata mentioned by Layard is not the only kind of cross to be found upon the relics of ancient Babylonia and Assyria.
Upon page 46 is another instance of the crux ansata being attached to the solar serpent issuing from the sun's disc.
Passing on to Africa and a consideration of the crux ansata or so-called 'Key of the Nile,' we find that this variety of cross had much the same significance attached to it by the ancients as had the more widely accepted varieties.
Lay the crosses on the bottom of each hole and then say: 25 Crux Matheus, crux Marcus, crux Lucas, crux Sanctus Johannes.
We may add that the crux ansata of the Egyptians, the oval standing upon the upright, or letter Tau, may be shown to be a sex symbol, the union of the oval with the upright being of symbolic significance.
The crux ansata is found in the hand of most of the Egyptian deities.
Priests are portrayed in adoration of the crux ansata before phallic monuments.
In 1679 Augustine Royer introduced the most interesting of the constellations of the southern hemisphere, the Crux australis or Southern Cross.
And just here, it seems to me, is thecrux of the situation.
However, desirable as correct knowledge about sex is, knowledge alone is not the crux of the sex problem.
The crux of the situation is mainly the matter of resistance.
Obviously the essential crux of Kant's argument lies in the proof that the moral consciousness is only explicable in this manner, as the self-legislation of a noumenal being.
And with this regress we are brought to the real crux of the whole question--the reconciliation of this phenomenalism with the conditions of our self-consciousness.
The real crux lies in the question as to the legitimacy of Kant's application of the predicate existence to the transcendental subject.
We come back to the same point, that the crux of the situation lies in the possession of the means of production.
This, the crux of all disarmament, is dealt with at some length in the chapters which follow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crux" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
