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Preexistence   Listen
noun
Preexistence  n.  
1.
Existence in a former state, or previous to something else. "Wisdom declares her antiquity and preexistence to all the works of this earth."
2.
Existence of the soul before its union with the body; a doctrine held by certain philosophers.





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"Preexistence" Quotes from Famous Books



... and the Encasement Theory.—Lamarck did not believe in Bonnet's idea of the "preexistence of germs." He asks whether there is any foundation for the notion that germs "successively develop in generations, i.e. in the multiplication of individuals for the preservation ...
— Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution - His Life and Work • Alpheus Spring Packard


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