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Usage examples of baser.

He could pride himself on not having succumbed to his baser instincts, on having adhered to the honorable course.

When we have done evil it is because we have been worsted by our baser side--for a man is many--by desire or rage or some evil image: the misnamed reasoning that takes up with the false, in reality fancy, has not stayed for the judgement of the Reasoning-Principle: we have acted at the call of the less worthy, just as in matters of the sense-sphere we sometimes see falsely because we credit only the lower perception, that of the Couplement, without applying the tests of the Reasoning-Faculty.

If the solution is that the one act of knowing covers contraries, and that as Evil is the contrary to Good the one act would grasp Good and Evil together, then to know Evil there must be first a clear perception and understanding of Good, since the nobler existences precede the baser and are Ideal-Forms while the less good hold no such standing, are nearer to Non-Being.

We refuse to range under the principle of freedom those whose conduct is directed by such fancy: the baser sort, therefore, mainly so guided, cannot be credited with self-disposal or voluntary act.

There to see, that now we have nothing to look for but, far otherwise, that we must put aside all else and rest in This alone, This become, This alone, all the earthly environment done away, in haste to be free, impatient of any bond holding us to the baser, so that with our being entire we may cling about This, no part in us remaining but through it we have touch with God.

And just now the bumping of the Tube train shaped his emotion into something that began with Success that poisons many a baser mind With thoughts of self, may lift-- but stopped there because, when he changed into another train, the jerkier movement altered the rhythm into something more lyrical, and he got somewhat confused between the two and ended by losing both.

Success that poisons many a baser mind May lift--- But the sonnet had never known completion.

Yet he could never quite find the right moment to tactfully assert his rights and take a place there in his bed beside his wife, and watching her slow movements about the house, he knew it would be some time yet before he could find relief for his baser needs with her, though he found her newly regained slimness most distracting.

A purer, richer aspect of this world, closer to the Focus yet destroyed by avarice and war, hence the Faery migration to this baser world.

Then do you not wonder at my present behaviour, that even in my nakedness I have made no effort whatsoever to inspire your baser affections?

Far beneath was a block of gray, its center a sparking square: Chandos Castle, its glass-topped courtyard vivid as a diamond in a baser setting!

I say our baser ore, that at the virgin touch of our philosophical stone blushed into ruddy gold?

I am, to ply the baser trade and stoop to that we see and touch and smell!

Because the noble rewards and the consideration which former times bestowed on learning are to-day diverted to baser pursuits!

The sufferings of that once flourishing and still fertile island were inflicted by baser hands.