Creation

Examples

• Once it was so; now is man lord of the creation? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And besides, look at elder-flowers and bluebells--they are a sign that pure creation takes place--even the butterfly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Always, also, it may be well to bear in mind that by the word 'creation' the zoologist means 'a process he knows not what. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Nature grows old, and shakes in her decaying limbs,--creation has become bankrupt! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Creation was not there. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Each watch had its own individuality as a separate creation, and only the privileged few were able to carry them. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Now the motion of a body has much the same effect as its creation. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Perish the daring thought that any smaller creation should come between! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He divided his story into six epochs to square with the six days of the Creation story. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Creation, annihilation, motion, reason, volition; all these may arise from one another, or from any other object we can imagine. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• British science was largely the creation of Englishmen and Scotchmen[458] working outside the ordinary centres of erudition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The obvious novelties of machinery and locomotion, phonographs and yellow journalism slake the American thirst for creation pretty thoroughly. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• See here, sir, at present I am worshipping a creature of my own creation, with the face of that picture, but with the attributes of fancy. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• But why, on the theory of creation, they should not have been created there, it would be very difficult to explain. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• How inexplicable are the cases of serial homologies on the ordinary view of creation! Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The imitative artist will be in a brilliant state of intelligence about his own creations? Plato. The Republic.
• Then to hear them fall into ecstasies with each other's creations--worshipping the heroine of such a poem, novel, drama--thinking it fine, divine! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Poetry and its creations, philosophy and its researches and classifications, alike awoke the sleeping ideas in my mind, and gave me new ones. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• His creations are not tested by rule and measure; they are only appearances. Plato. The Republic.
• For consistency, too, is the growth of time; and some of the greatest creations of the human mind have been wanting in unity. Plato. The Republic.
• I delighted in investigating the facts relative to the actual world; she busied herself in following the a?rial creations of the poets. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• In some respects this process seems almost more wonderful than the original Stereoscope, for it gives solid form and apparent substantiality to the mere creations of the artist's pencil. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Inventions, then, are not creations, but the evolution of man-made contrivances. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Whatever is built by man for man's occupation, must, like natural creations, fulfil the intention of its existence, or soon perish. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

Editor: Manuel