Every study of the trilobite, whether of adult, young, or protaspis, indicates the primitiveness of the lateral extensions or pleural lobes.
The primitiveness of it reached them no more clearly than the primitiveness of Wagner's operas reached them.
I delighted in primitiveness and simplicity, where human baseness had the fewest opportunities to thrive, and where human goodness was the least likely to be spoilt by publicity.
Their ancestors, for innumerable generations, had lived there before them, and the quaint and sweet crust of primitivenesslay upon the natures of the simple people, and invested them with a peculiar charm.
The unspoiled primitiveness of life at Dessau as it was when I was at school there till the age of twelve, would be extremely difficult to describe in all its details.
More important, however, than the purely chronological antiquity of the book, is the antiquity or primitiveness of the thoughts which it contains.
The end of the polemic against the primitiveness of fetichism deals with the question, 'Whence comes the supernatural predicate of the fetich?
Our object has been to defend the 'primitiveness of fetichism.
True, I should regret the loss of primitiveness here, as I said at the outset, but when the lives of men are concerned, esthetics must go to the wall.
Many of these, mainly objections to the hypothesis of the relative primitiveness of the Arunta "nation," had often been urged before by others.
The native quarter keeps well to itself, however; and modern improvements do not [Illustration: A Constantine Mosque] encroach upon its picturesque primitiveness as they do at Algiers.
