Usage examples (4)

• The real causes of such a heterogenetic generation, if it took place at all, have not yet been found; therefore we have to treat only of the abstract possibilities of its...
• Essence as such in relation to a contingent being merely implies its conceivableness or possibility, and abstracts from actual existence; existence as such must be added...
• In speaking, for example, of the action of matter upon matter, and again of that of mind upon matter, the special idea suggested is clearly as to the mode of action in the one...
• It was the first effective introduction into France of these great and fundamental principles; that all knowledge is relative to our intelligence, that thought is not the...