Literary notes about coalescence (AI summary)
Literary usage of "coalescence" often underscores the theme of unification, as disparate parts assemble into a cohesive whole. In varied contexts, it captures both literal processes—such as the merging of cells in reproduction ([1], [2], [3]) and the physical fusion of anatomical parts ([4], [5])—and more metaphorical ones, like the formation of nations from divided tribes ([6], [7], [8]) or the blending of ideas, events, and creative impulses ([9], [10], [11]). This multifaceted application enriches narratives by portraying natural, social, and intellectual unions as organic, inevitable processes, reflecting how integral coalescence is to both the physical and conceptual worlds.
- The essential feature of sexual generation is the coalescence of two different cells, a female ovum (egg-cell) and a male sperm-cell.
— from The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy by Ernst Haeckel - It is the product of the coalescence of the male and female elements requisite for reproduction.
— from Homo-Culture; Or, The Improvement of Offspring Through Wiser Generation by M. L. (Martin Luther) Holbrook - It is well known that this process consists in the coalescence of two distinct germ-cells, or perhaps only of their nuclei.
— from Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological ProblemsAuthorised Translation by August Weismann - [3] —This bone, single and median, is formed by the mutual coalescence of several vertebræ, which vary in number according to the species observed.
— from Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Édouard Cuyer - It becomes closed by the coalescence of the two edges, a process which commences posteriorly, and then gradually extends forwards.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 2 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Invertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour - Pelasgians and Hellenes alike were organized in gentes, phratries 234 and tribes; and the latter united by coalescence into nations.
— from Ancient Society Or, Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery, through Barbarism to Civilization by Lewis Henry Morgan - Such a coalescence is what we call a nation or empire.
— from The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of RacesWith Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Gobineau, Arthur, comte de - Such homogeneousness, as has long been recognized, works powerfully for the political coalescence of separate communities.
— from The Brothers' War by John C. (John Calvin) Reed - For their apparition is another evidence of that coalescence of strata with strata which is one [Pg 132] of the features of suburb life just now.
— from Liverpool by Dixon Scott - We form this indefinite thought, as we form many of our definite thoughts, by the coalescence of a series of thoughts.
— from On Sameness and Identity: A Psychological Study Being a Contribution to the Foundations of a Theory of Knowledge by George Stuart Fullerton - Perhaps, however, the principle of association itself may reveal something as to the possible modes of coalescence.
— from The English Utilitarians, Volume 2 (of 3) James Mill by Leslie Stephen
