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(Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)

Because he interprets the primitive state of man as one of mere potentiality or capacity and believes that Adam and Eve were created as children , Irenaeus often seems inclined to extenuate their disobedience as being `` due , no_doubt , to carelessness , but still wicked '' .

(Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)

Theirs is no mere lack of sympathy , but something closer to the passionate hatred that was directed against Fascism .

(Clifford H. Pope, The Giant Snakes....)

The argument against this last approach is comparable_to that which rejects stories about hoop_snakes , about snakes that break themselves into many pieces and join up again , or even of ghosts that chase people out of graveyards ; the mere piling_up of testimony does not prove , to the scientific mind , the existence of hoop_snakes , joint_snakes , or ghosts .

(Richard F. McLaughlin, et al., "A study of the...)

The diameter of this bronchial_artery was much too large for it to be a mere vasa_vasorum ( figs. 16 , 23 , 24 ) .

Certainly , the mere fact of failing to demonstrate them in one or another species does not conclusively deny their existence in that species .