But how can a conception such as that of the content of life originate in mere nature?
Yet through the development of a spiritual activity which places it in a more inward and free relation to reality, humanity has really advanced beyond the position in which man acted as a part of mere nature.
But even the error shows a seeking and an interpretation; the simple putting of the question proclaims a being becoming superior to mere nature.
If grace is a supernatural help, mere nature cannot, of its own strength, perform salutary acts.
Semipelagianism is an attempt to effect a compromise between Pelagianism and Augustinism by attributing to mere nature a somewhat greater importance in matters of salvation than St. Augustine was willing to admit.
The Scholastic distinction between native and acquired habits does not apply in the supernatural domain, because the supernatural by its very definition can never be either a part or an acquisition of mere nature.
A power to move in only one given direction is a mere nature-force; it can not be self-activity.
This likeness of God lifts man out of the sphere of mere nature--it sets him apart in the essential characteristics and endowments of his being as above nature, and in some sense divine.
He is not solely under the dominion of mere nature-conditions, and he is therefore a progressive being.
The existence of mere nature, however, can not be regarded as an end in itself.
Are we to suppose, for a moment, that this "ark" was the invention of mere nature?
We do not recognize in her the energy of mere nature, hanging over the object of its affections, about to fall into the iron grasp of the king of terrors.
He had nothing in common with man as such, nor was it within the compass ofmere nature to comprehend or enjoy Him.
But this is to deny the transcendence of God, and reduce omnipotence to a mere nature-power.
Vice is discouraged and virtue rewarded, in ways which are beyond the power of mere nature.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mere nature" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
