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Whatever other objections have been made to this second proposition, arise, as far as I remember, merely from a confusion of the idea of essentialness or primariness with the idea of nobleness.

From Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 by Ruskin, John

The Highest, Jaimini thinks; on account of primariness of meaning.

From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by Thibaut, George