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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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PROX'IMATE, a. [L. superl.proximus.] Nearest; next. A proximate cause is that which immediately precedes and produces the effect, as distinguished from the remote, mediate or predisposing cause.
Nearest;
next immediately preceding or following.
"Proximate
ancestors." J. S. Harford.
The proximate natural causes of it [the deluge]. T. Burnet. Proximate analysis (Chem.), an
analysis which determines the proximate principles of any substance,
as contrasted with an ultimate analysis. --
Proximate cause. Syn. -- Nearest; next; closest; immediate; direct. | ||||||||