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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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DEVELOPMENT, n.
The act of developing or disclosing that
which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is
developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a photographic
plate; gradual advancement or growth through a series of progressive
changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed
state.
A new development of imagination, taste, and poetry. Channing. The series of changes which
animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the
embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of
organization.
The act
or process of changing or expanding an expression into another of
equivalent value or meaning.
The elaboration of a theme
or subject; the unfolding of a musical idea; the evolution of a whole
piece or movement from a leading theme or motive.
Development theory (Biol.), the doctrine that animals and plants possess the power of passing by slow and successive stages from a lower to a higher state of organization, and that all the higher forms of life now in existence were thus developed by uniform laws from lower forms, and are not the result of special creative acts. See the Note under Darwinian. Syn. -- Unfolding; disclosure; unraveling; evolution; elaboration; growth. | ||||||||