Example Sentences

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The soul connected with the higher developments of brain and spinal column is likewise a higher development, and differs from the soul connected with the uncentralized organization of lower species.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.

Thanking him, therefore, and considering how charming was the loose habit of small uncentralized societies, I went merrily on to the bridge, meaning to walk across it by stepping from sleeper to sleeper.

From The Path to Rome by Belloc, Hilaire

They not only abandoned the insurrection to its own uncentralized, and therefore ineffective, spontaneity, they actually did everything in their power to take the sting out of the movement, to unman, to destroy it.

From Revolution and Counter-Revolution or, Germany in 1848 by Marx, Karl

He had had too much evidence during the Revolution of the weakness of uncentralized government, and yet his Virginia origin and training had planted in him a strong sympathy for State rights.

From George Washington by Thayer, William Roscoe