But they all do tend to bring out the generalization expressed by Mr. Wallace in the formula, that "every species has come into existence coincident both in time and space with preëxisting closely allied species.
He evidently, however, had the Swiss biologist in mind, who held that all living things proceed from preëxisting germs.
Hence Life, either as a preA"xisting cause or vital agency, must precede both animal and vegetal organism.
Pabulum is nothing without a preA"xisting "something" to dispose of it.
But how about the preA"xisting germs or vital units of the mastodon, the megatherium, and other gigantic mammiferous quadrupeds of the Eocene period?
Without some vital principle, therefore, preA"xisting as a cause, there can be no life-manifestation.
Why they make their appearance is not a debatable question, except as we assume a preA"xisting vital principle, and apply to its elucidation our subtlest dialectical methods.
But what gave peculiar value to the battle was, that it wiped off at once the preëxisting stain upon the honor of Sparta.
The call of President Lincoln for seventy-five thousand volunteers removed any preëxisting doubt as to the intent to coerce the States which should claim to assert their right of sovereignty.
The loss to creditors by the wholesale abrogation of numerous preëxisting contracts, and by the partial depreciation of the coin, is a fact not to be disguised.
According to the preëxisting custom, we may rather presume that if a deceased person left neither children nor blood relations, his property descended (as at Rome) to his gens and phratry.
There was an absolute necessity for overruling all that class of preëxisting rights which had produced so violent a social fever.
If in their estimation any Grecian community had become corrupt, they were willing to sanction great interference with preëxisting rights for the purpose of bringing it back nearer to their ideal standard.
But while Solon thus created the new pre-considering senate, identified with and subsidiary to the popular assembly, he manifested no jealousy of the preëxisting Areopagitic senate.
The preëxisting cultural pattern synthetizes the new element with its own preconceptions.
It is his business to see that it be enforced,--provided that it is not contrary to preëxisting laws, or obtained by force or fraud.
Two great schools here also have defended exactly opposite views--one that the Spiritual Life in man can only come from preëxisting Life, the other that it can Spontaneously Generate itself.
Two great schools have defended exactly opposite views--one that matter can spontaneously generate life, the other that life can only come from preëxisting life.
The effect has been to flatten out the preëxisting irregularities of the surface, and to yield at first a gently undulating plain upon which are many undrained areas and a haphazard system of drainage (Fig.
There is, however, a third process by which minerals are formed, and minerals of this class are produced within the solid rock as a product of the alteration of preëxisting minerals.
Much the same may be said of the dikes of cooled magma which have been injected along preëxisting fractures.
The rock may be said to be torn away in blocks which are largely bounded by the preëxisting fissure planes.
One new mineral may have been produced from the dissolved materials of a number of earlier species, or several new minerals may be the result of the alteration of a preëxisting mineral with a more complex chemical structure.
The term syngenetic has been used for mineral deposits formed by processes similar to those which have formed the enclosing rocks and in general simultaneously with them, and epigenetic for those introduced into preëxisting rocks.
It may include preëxisting rock of any kind which has been locally fused within the earth.
To quote from one of his decisions: "Preëxisting or customary marginal differences are followed by this court as a prima facie rule, but the rule is only prima facie, and is subject to revision in the light of argument and evidence.
It varies as to intensity and the exact manner of its manifestation depends upon preëxisting disturbances.
The lesions arise from erythematous skin, from preëxisting vesicles or vesicular groups, or from apparently normal integument.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "xisting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
