Never before had this land and its phenomena appeared so cruel, so perfectly the manifestation of a superhuman force that clothed its malignancy in a primordial splendor.
So this delicate, white product of modernity, this embodiment of civilization's perceptions and all that it pays for them, was borne at last into the primordial world on the shoulders of savages.
Unless there was something fundamental about him, something that savored of the primordial deep of the universal spirit, he remained unmoved.
What I mean to say is that there must be the primordial tendency to development which Natural Selection is powerless to beget, and which it can only speed up or augment.
Out of the manifold compounding and recompounding of primordial clans have come the nations of mankind in various degrees of civilization, but already in the clan we find the ethical process at work.
Not of such mild and sporadic volcanic outbreaks as we of green Terra know, but of gigantic primordial volcanoes, in terrifyingly continuous performances of frightful intensity.
Kabalists regarded Deity as the Primordial Ether-Ocean from which light flows, 739-l.
All the organic beings, which have ever lived on the earth, may be descended from some one primordial form.
If they ever succeed in showing that all species of animals may have been derived from one primordial germ, it is impossible that man so came.
Even if it should ever be proved that all plant and animal life came by evolution from one primordial germ, it would not follow that either the body or the soul of man came by evolution.
Churchward, in his Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man (chap.
A most interesting book is Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man, by Churchward, in that it surveys the symbolism of the race always with reference to its Masonic suggestion.
What, then, is this primordial matter, which we have never seen, which is no portion of created things, and which yet has produced them all?
It is conceivable that the evolution of the primordial living substance should have taken place only along the plant line.
The primordial anthropoid was probably, in this respect, on much the same footing as his pithecoid kin.
To test this argument, let us grant the data which are demanded, and imagine the primordial space charged with matter, in molecules or in masses, in motion or rest, as you may prefer.
They are content to take the world as a going concern, at the farthest point in the past to which, even speculatively, Science can trace it, as that vast primordial nebula of which we have heard.
It is this tendency or bias that I venture to regard as theprimordial factor.
These and the several skins may all co-exist in their primordial germes, and remain beyond the discovery of our highest powers of assisted vision, till a certain period when they may first enter the range of the microscope-aided eye.
From all this it will be clearly seen that it would be impossible for us to hypostasize a super-moral or sub-moral universe in complete disregard of the primordial conscience of the human soul.
This act of primordial faith is the active belief of the soul not only in an objective universe outside itself, but also in the objective existence of other individual souls.
It will be remarked that in my list of the primordial energies of the complex vision I do not mention religion.
This fortunate rhythm of the primordial energies of the complex vision may be felt and realized without being expressed in words.
The supreme activity of this apex-thought is centred about those primordial ideas of truth, beauty and nobility which are the very stuff and texture of its being.
But to refuse some degree of consciousness, some measure of the complex vision, to any living thing, is to be false to that primordial act of faith into which the original revelation of the complex vision compels us to plunge.
These three primordial ideas may be summed up as follows: The idea of beauty, which is the revelation of the aesthetic sense.
Art is the expression, through the medium of an individual temperament, of a beauty which is one of the primordial aspects of this pluralistic world.
The power of thinking "I am I" is an ultimate endowment of personality, outside of which, except by an act of primordial faith, we cannot pass.
There one found oneself confronted by primordial organic law, atrocious edicts promulgated at the very beginning of the world and applied ever since.
A third impulse innate in man, though scarcely so primordial as the other two, and one which the animals cannot share with him, is the impulse of record or commemoration.
Look: Suppose one of these primordial Nipes runs across a tiger--or whatever large carnivore passes for a tiger on their home planet.
Our primordial Nipe hits it on the head, and it drops dead.
Cat, her musky oils a green verdure lapping primordial scent to engross a little readiness as the day progresses to its oedipal stage and arrested development.
The Kuril Islands are a No Man's Land hut so are the Ainus, a primordial white race of Asia.
From primordial periods the male has recognized this need of the female.
The primordial egg-cell has undergone a long line of consecutive divisions; the single eggs are the last result of them.
At the end then, or from another point of view at the beginning, a single cellular element represents the very primordial egg-cell.
Miastor, a fly, in which a single large, primordial germ-cell (p.
There are not so many primordial germ-cells formed and only one out of four of the ultimate cells becomes a functional egg.
Though it suffers this experiment placidly, being incapable of the feeblest resistance, it has the primordialgift of care of itself.
He professes fear of the primordialsavagery of the "man alonga bush.
Still, in the primordial stage, Nitrosomonas lives on ammonium sulphate, taking its energy (food) from the nitrogen of ammonium and forming nitrates.
It is but a harmoniously arranged expansion of primordial principles and qualities.
A simple primordial cell or utricle, the most simply organized being, whether animal or vegetable matters little.
