"Embryonic" Quotes from Famous Books
... unbroken darkness of the beginning of time appeared a small spot, which grew as embryonic life and became a human figure, known in the myth as Kuterastan, The One Who Lives Above. This creator then made light, and next Stenatlihan, Woman Without Parents. Next he created Chuganaai, The Sun, and following him Hadintin Skhin, Pollen Boy. The creator next made the ... — The North American Indian • Edward S. Curtis
... started out on a voyage of discovery. Soon he came upon a heap of neatly cut, neatly piled wood. He loaded up until he heard shouts, then fled. That night we had a great fire, but in the morning came tribulation. The shouts were the shouts of the C.R.E. and the wood was an embryonic bridge. ... — Adventures of a Despatch Rider • W. H. L. Watson
... construction, with gradually increasing intelligence. In the unconscious products of nature, nature's aim to reflect upon itself, to become intelligence, fails, in man it succeeds. Nature is the embryonic life of spirit. Nature and spirit are essentially identical: "That which is posited out of consciousness is in its essence the same as that which is posited in consciousness also." Therefore "the knowable must itself ... — History Of Modern Philosophy - From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time • Richard Falckenberg
... Berlin, 1846," shows that the result obtained was only external; and though we do not desire to be understood as denying or refusing to this class the possession of a mind in potentia, it appears in them to be confined to an embryonic state.— ... — Pedagogics as a System • Karl Rosenkranz
... modifies the tendencies it would seem that heredity ought to pass on. The similarity of form between parent and child is not exact, because it proceeds from the peculiarities of the individual in incarnation far more than from the collective tendencies of the embryonic ... — Reincarnation - A Study in Human Evolution • Th. Pascal
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