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.

Although both Oxford and Cambridge were modeled on Paris, their higher faculties never developed the same distinct organization; and, while the two proctors at Cambridge originally represented north and south, the nations are scarcely to be discerned.

Our focus shall be on how Franz Joseph Gall viewed the fine arts, with special emphasis on what one must possess to be outstanding in this field, which he associated with perceiving and understanding relationships, and several higher faculties of mind, including color, "constructiveness," locality, and recognizing people.

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.

We found the most severe bias in disciplines paying higher faculty salaries and at private universities.

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 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.