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Example sentences for "purely human"

  • If the latter is mythological, then we have a heterogeneous combination, a mythical legend grafted on a purely human one.

  • There thus stand sharply opposed to each other two theories, one seeing in the Siegfried saga a personification of natural forces, the other tracing it back to a purely human story of murder through greed.

  • It differs from that of Jesus Christ in being that of a purely human character, possessed of many of the virtues and not a few of the frailties of ordinary human nature.

  • Still, whatever assistance these are supposed to impart, myth and legend must always hold a prominent place in the systems of those who endeavour to account for the origin of the Gospels on purely human principles.

  • But this too has no existence, and neither will the last refuge, that the "purely human" is realizable, afford shelter much longer.

  • Socialist; take up a purely human interest, then I will be your companion.

  • How we deport ourselves in other respects as individuals, and what self-seeking impulses we may there succumb to, belongs solely to our private life; our public or State life is a purely human one.

  • For this reason, we will leave the so-called revealed morality to the priests of diverse religions who pretend to have received them directly from God, and will confine ourselves to the study of purely human morality.

  • Perhaps we shall best see this difference by considering what the development of art might have been on purely human terms.

  • The interest and pleasure in the latter is purely human, and as such is shared by the two sexes even now.

  • But even if, in a purely human process, such as education, she does bring her special feminine characteristics to bear, what are they, and what are the results?

  • Coming to redeem humanity, he shows how He was first born into that humanity, making His advent in a purely human fashion.

  • If the genesis of the Gospel is so purely human, where is there room for the touch of the Divine?

  • As his physical development was, in mode and proportion, purely human, with no hint of anything unnatural or even supernatural, so we may suppose was his mental and spiritual development.

  • Hitherto His life has been a purely human life.

  • Mohammed and the false prophets should be placed side by side with Moses and Jesus Christ; for the religion of Christ is a purely human one, like that of Buddha and the Arabian prophet.

  • Supposing the evangelical accounts to be purely human, we have even then the highest embodiment of truth in the history of man.

  • The Christian Church is held to be a purely human mechanism, and the great defect of Protestantism is its limit of the power of private inspiration.

  • The writing down of the communication is purely human; therefore, the Bible cannot be called a revelation.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    aged mother; away home; chamber music; conic section; corresponding periods; diffused matter; honorary member; modern reader; onion chopped; purely chemical; purely human; purely local; purely logical; purely mechanical; purely objective; purely physical; purely psychological; purely spiritual; purely subjective; shall first; sudden spring; third section; trust company; unicameral legislature; when practicable; will last