But the numbers are of secondary importance, and the fact that systematic species consist, as a rule, of more than one independent and constant subspecies, retains its almost universal validity.
Species were distinguished by minor marks and often indicated by short descriptions, but they were considered of secondary importance.
The ministers ought, therefore, to stand or fall upon their general policy, upon their whole record, or upon some one question that in permanent consequence outweighs everything else, not upon a particular act of secondary importance.
As a watershed it is only of secondary importance, for the water from both sides flows to the Ngangtse-tso.
It should also be noted that in Hungary society is far more absorbed in politics than is generally the case, and that science and intellectual labour of any kind are of secondary importance.
In isolated districts, where passenger traffic is of secondary importance, and where the principal merchandise will be heavy without being bulky, such as mineral ores, slates, etc.
It is simple and economical in construction, and provides good accommodation for loading and unloading under cover packages and goods of secondary importance.
Railway bridges over or under public roads of primary or secondary importance must be constructed to the widths and heights prescribed for such works in the fixed regulations of the country in which they 103 have to be built.
I, too, hold that the division of the encysted mass is of secondary importance, and that the encystment itself, without the resulting multiplication, is the original and essential part of the phenomenon.
But such subsequent division is only of secondary importance as far as the egg itself is concerned, and is also unimportant in the interpretation of the process.
Strasburger assumes that ‘specially favourable conditions of nutrition counteract the deficiency of nuclear idioplasm,’ while it seems to me that nutrition must be considered as only of secondary importance.
Still I am perfectly prepared to admit that the circumstances are totally different to that of England, and that the question of shelter is of secondary importance as compared with food.
On this question I do not propose to say much, not because there is not much that could be said, but because in a climate like India it is a matter of secondary importance as compared with food.
As already said, I am quite willing to admit that this question of shelter for the poor is of secondary importance as compared with that of their food-supply.
Auber; in that kind of opera the music is fast becoming of secondary importance,--a good thing too.
To play your music, I have also to stretch my fingers to the fullest extent; but there they obey more naturally, because the mechanical construction of your passages is of secondary importance, as compared to the spirit which dictates them.
We have found him acknowledging that in some animals some sort of concoction also of the blood destined for the arteries may be brought about by the pulmonary parenchyma as a function of secondary importance.
This purpose, however, which we shall study later, is not cooling and is counted of secondary importance by Galen.
But its literary qualities seem to me to be of secondary importance to the profound and incontrovertible idea that forms the kernel of the book.
And I refer not to personal communication, which is of secondary importance, but to intellectual communication that is established through books.
It is by such tokens as these that one may recognize the secondary importance of the national letters, for, of course, Brazilian letters do not constitute a major literature.
The branches of industry, which they are designed to protect, are altogether of secondary importance, and cannot be weighed in the balance against public decency.
Baptism to him was only of secondary importance;[1] and with respect to prayer, he prescribes nothing, except that it should proceed from the heart.
We have seen that what used to be considered of secondary importance, is now of paramount value.
Spiritual activity is generally treated as of secondary importance; infinitely greater value is attached to the natural self-preservation of individuals and of society.
Religious morality in former times often directed man's endeavour too much towards a world of faith and hope beyond our world, and was inclined to neglect earthly matters as being of secondary importance.
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