At an earlier stage, when the mesenteron has a less definite form, such a continuity between the true hypoblast and the yolk-cells does not exist at the sides of the cavity.
In an earlier stageof development the yolk-sack had not the compressed form represented in the figure.
Relatively to the other parts it is considerably smaller than it was at an earlier stage.
The reasons for not conforming to this restricted use of the term were stated in an earlier stage of our inquiry, and additional motives will be suggested by the considerations on which we are now about to enter.
A) is formed of several tiers of cells, the outermost of which are very columnar and have less protoplasm than in an earlier stage.
We cannot avoid the impression, accordingly, that the unclean animals held to be taboo by the Priests' Code, are the same as those which this same people regarded as sacred soul and totem animals at an earlier stage of culture.
Of these, those that belong to an earlier stage of our ethnological knowledge concerning this subject can here receive but brief mention.
Wherever traces of them appear at an earlier stage, one can hardly avoid the suspicion that these are due to the influences of neighbouring peoples.
At an earlier stage of the Assyrian invasion Hezekiah had sent to Isaiah, asking him to pray to his God for deliverance, and had received an explicit assurance that the invasion would be foiled.
But we equally err if we try to bring such externalities into the worship of the Christian Church, and if we are blind to their worth at an earlier stage.
These were obviously the main features of an earlier stage of the tribal system than we have seen in Wales.
Even when it has become monotheistic, it may continue to speak of the one God as 'a great god above all other gods,' in terms which are survivals of an earlier stage of belief.
Not all of these however can be regarded as characteristic of the Heroic Age; some have been inherited in all probability from an earlier stage of development.
On the whole however I am inclined to doubt whether we possess a single heroic story which has not been treated in court-poetry at an earlier stage in its career.
I think it would have been simpler to consider the magical element in religious rites as surviving, with its original meaning lost, from an earlier stage of thought.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "earlier stage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
