Medieval Christian concept.
1 Darwin's great chain of being has advanced us to chicken-necked bipeds clasping 3in screens.
2 Every link in the great chain of being attracts the nemesis which breaks it!
3 Men and women could no longer ascend the chain of being to God by their own efforts.
4 If it had stopped there it would have sounded like a version of the Elizabethan chain of being .
5 Step by step, a Christian could ascend the chain of being until he reached God, his natural element and home.
6 No link is broken in the chain of being ; any more than in passing from infancy to manhood, from manhood to old age.
7 Augustine's mind was filled with the Greek imagery of the great chain of being instead of the Semitic images of the seven heavens.
8 But because its existence was so different from that of anything else, it was not just another item in the chain of being .
9 The One existed in serene contemplation of itself beyond the ravages of time and change at the pinnacle of the great chain of being .
10 His colour came and went, his eye danced and his tones grew deep and tremulous, as he dwelt on the illimitable chain of being .
11 Claims for gradualism attain their highest frequencies at "opposite" ends of the conventional chain of being - that is , for foraminifers and for mammals.
12 Humans, at the top of the great chain of being , had a God-given right to superintend the animals of the world as they saw fit.
13 The rotten chain of beings reaches down into this slaughter field of souls.
14 Thus the chain of beings is like a serpent eating his own tail....
15 What if that first link in the Great Chain of being - Orholam Himself - is as empty as every other link before him?
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