Precedent setters

Usage examples of firsts.

But between them the Lunar Society had many firsts to its credit: its members did much to promote the acceptance of machines in modern life, they were among the first to appreciate the notion of marketing, and advertising, and even shopping.

The sigils stitched on the banners of former Bloods, Firsts, and Seconds were the sole indication of rank.

Intellection, the unity there is in all that issues from these Firsts, until it has traversed the entire Intellectual Realm: then, resolving the unity into the particulars once more, it returns to the point from which it starts.

And there is nothing undesigned, nothing of chance, in all the process: all is one scheme of differentiation, starting from the Firsts and working itself out in a continuous progression of Kinds.

If it is derived, it has a source: if it is eternal, then the Primal-Principles are more numerous than we thought, the Firsts are a meeting-ground.

For whatsoever has primal Being must be immanent to the Firsts and be a First-Eternity equally with The Good that is among them and of them and equally with the truth that is among them.

It is the order of nature: The last in the immediately preceding lasts, things of the order of the Firsts within their prior-Firsts, and so thing within thing up to the very pinnacle of source.

Certainly not the bodies they have entered, for those firsts cannot be present in the material masses as their Forms if they are to remain identical with the First from which they come.

Intellectual tertiaries are present, the secondaries and firsts are present too.

It stands over the Beings not as itself requiring base but that it may serve as base to the Form of the Firsts, the Formless Form.

Firsts and lie prostrate among the lasts: we must strike for those Firsts, rising from things of sense which are the lasts.