Sentence examples for Higher faculties from inspiring English sources
It was a crushing defeat for the higher faculties and a lesson in intellectual humility, but he had made a hell of a fight.
In his book "Utilitarianism", he writes that people:do give a most marked preference to the manner of existence which employs their higher faculties.
His mind has grown soft from too much Internet usage, he says, "whether on my laptop with its glowing piece of violated fruit on the lid, or the awful little slab I've made the mistake of entrusting with my phone calls and, more and more, my higher faculties.
In the latter volume and in several articles from this period on human evolution and spiritualism, Wallace parted from the scientific naturalism of many of his friends and colleagues in claiming that natural selection could not account for the higher faculties of human beings.
His discussion concerns activities that employ our higher faculties.
I loved this: that there must be something, some higher faculty, some progressive sensibility that we find in abstraction.
New housing, higher faculty salaries and a richer "environment of undergraduate life" -- a new theater, a visual arts center and a health center -- would be financed by raising $82.5 million, five times the size of any previous college fund drive.
The increase, which was approved by the college's board of trustees several months ago, was attributed to several factors, including higher faculty salaries due to a retroactive 4percentt pay raise to cover each of the last three years, and payments to the state's retirement system and health benefits.
The higher faculty is thus present, albeit potentially, in the lower.
The understanding, however, despite its earth-bound nature, cannot help falling under the influence of the higher faculty of reason.
