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" That quotation itself calls attention to apocalyptic antecedents in the Bible, where the end of the days or the last days , meaning "the end of the world," is often much on people's minds.

Though close relatives of this enzyme exist in some bacteria, like Yersinia pestis and Borrelia burgdorferi and the archaea, its antecedents or catalytic mechanism have not been understood.

Many of these developments blend smoothly into their antecedents and later elaborations.

Though their antecedents are still shadowy, they were much influenced by the Olmec.

The popular rhythms are a unique mixture of Spanish and African influences, though the instruments traditionally used have antecedents going back further than the Spanish colonial and African slave imports.

This is the method of the ancients: the fact exists, then it is necessary, then it is just, then its antecedents are just also.

It follows from this that the soul, in its determinations and actions, is liberated from the laws and necessities of the corporeal nature, it is a free power, a power of indetermination, capable of choice, capable of introducing new, unforeseen, and unforeseeable actions, and on this point opposes itself to corporeal phenomena, which are all subject to a determinism so rigorous that any event could be foreseen if its antecedents were known.

Physical and psychical life form two parallel currents, which never mingle their waters, to every state of definite consciousness there corresponds the counterpart of an equally definite state of the nerve centres, the fact of consciousness has its antecedents and its consequences in the consciousness, and the physical fact equally takes its place in a chain of physical facts.

Why, it may be asked, should we go out of our way to invent unconscious memory - the existence of which must at the best remain an inference {149} - when the observed fact that like antecedents are invariably followed by like consequents should be sufficient for our purpose?

I endeavoured to see how far I could get on without volition and memory, and reasoned as follows:- A repetition of like antecedents will be certainly followed by a repetition of like consequents, whether the agents be men and women or chemical substances.

The one faith on which all normal living beings consciously or unconsciously act, is that like antecedents will be followed by like consequents.

To say that these are the necessary outcome of certain antecedents is not to destroy them: granted that they are - a man does not cease to be a man when we reflect that he has had a father and mother, nor do will and memory cease to be will and memory on the ground that they cannot come causeless.

At each point in any action of the first of the two kinds above referred to there is a memory (conscious or unconscious according to the less or greater number of times the action has been repeated), not only of the steps in the present and previous performances which have led up to the particular point that may be selected, but also of the particular point itself, there is, therefore, at each point in a habitual performance a memory at once of like antecedents and of a like present.

But it does not follow that the action of two people who have had tolerably similar antecedents and are placed in tolerably similar circumstances should be more unlike each other in this second case than in the first.

, as anything is ever the same with anything, for the having been subjected to like antecedents engenders the closest similarity that we can conceive of, if the substances were like to start with.

When either of these tests fails, similarity of action on the part of two agents need not be connected with memory of a like present as well as of like antecedents, but must, or at any rate may, be referred to memory of like antecedents only.

I submit, however, that in the case of the reproductive forms of life we see just so much variety, in spite of uniformity, as is consistent with a repetition involving not only a nearly perfect similarity in the agents and their circumstances, but also the little departure therefrom that is inevitably involved in the supposition that a memory of like presents as well as of like antecedents (as distinguished from a memory of like antecedents only) has played a part in their development - a cyclonic memory, if the expression may be pardoned.

- Pronouns Agreement with Antecedents Person Gender Rules Governing Gender Number Compound Antecedents Relative Interrogative Case Forms Rules Governing Use of Cases Compound Personal Compound Relative Adjective Miscellaneous Cautions IV.

Pronouns should agree with their antecedents in person, gender, and number.



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