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Example sentences for "its existence"

  • They look upon the rush of improvement with calmness, though often with a sort of incredulity as to the agency by which it is brought about, and the righteousness of its existence.

  • Mankind, and all the other kingdoms of nature, are bound up organically with the earth from the start of its existence.

  • In these three successive rhythms of expansion and contraction the plant reveals to us the basic rule of its existence.

  • I noted the little door which was so recessed in the wall that it would have escaped the notice of anyone who was unaware of its existence; it opened, I saw, towards the staircase.

  • It does not devour it; on the contrary, it is necessary to its existence.

  • Nature is a coward which, demanding only conservation, orders me to sacrifice all to its existence.

  • That unchangeable and independent Being which has existed from eternity without any eternal cause of its existence, must be self- existent, that is, necessarily existing.

  • A body is dependent on another body when it owes to it its existence, and its mode of action.

  • Now this completeness of a science cannot be accepted with confidence on the guarantee of a mere estimate of its existence in an aggregate formed only by means of repeated experiments and attempts.

  • The determinations of a substance, which are only particular modes of its existence, are called accidents.

  • It has been a mighty earthquake--must have been, to have wrought these vast changes; though I had supposed that Providence had confined a knowledge of its existence to myself.

  • Until they saw it, not one of them had any notion of its existence, or of a mountain at all.

  • The weakness of the colony and the dangers to its existence, disposed of the question of an aggressive war.

  • That coining factory--" "Did you know of its existence?

  • She does not fancy I am aware of its existence.

  • But if the secret entrance is in the cottage," said Twining, "this old woman may have been aware of its existence.

  • Besides, she will never guess that I know how to get into the place, or indeed think that I know of its existence.

  • I recall that Tyndall, who was as much poet as scientist, speaks of life as a wave "which at no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

  • And yet science is as convinced of its existence as of the solid ground beneath our feet.

  • In regard to its existence, as in regard to the immortal being of each of its members, the great word remains for ever true: 'Because I live ye shall live also.

  • The nation was as reluctant to fulfil the reason of its existence as the Prophet was.

  • The assumption of an "object" apart from the idea is as useless as its existence would be.

  • He inquires into the origin and extent of knowledge, into its sources and its limits, into the grounds of its existence and of its legitimacy.

  • During the last two years of its existence, Richard Hengist Horne and Leigh Hunt became its successive editors, but failed to avert the final collapse.

  • After the first half-year of its existence, Colburn sold a third share to the Messrs.

  • The young ant, wasp, or bee, will begin its labors and discharge them as perfectly at the beginning of its existence as a perfect insect, as at the close of life.

  • Its popularity is in proportion to its facility: its origin is ancient, its influence universal, but perhaps for this very reason its existence as a corporation is somewhat indistinct.

  • But not only is it a machine which feeds and appropriates to its own support the nourishment necessary to its existence--it is an engine for locomotive purposes.

  • But the hypothesis of special creation is not only a mere specious mask for our ignorance; its existence in Biology marks the youth and imperfection of the science.

  • Assuredly, every organ has, and every organism fulfils, its end, but its purpose is not the condition of its existence.


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