In 1739 and 1748, David Hume published A Treatise of Human Nature and An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, arguing for the associations and causes of ideas with visual images, in some sense forerunners to the language of film.

Heine and Börne both record their sense of obligation to the liberality of Napoleon's principles of action, and the German Jews in particular have always regarded Napoleon as one of the chief forerunners of emancipation in Germany.

Although Anabaptists began with the Radical Reformers in the 16th century, certain people and groups may still legitimately be considered their forerunners due to a similar approach to the interpretation and application of the Bible.

It was the second time the Country Party had effectively vetoed its senior partner's choice for the leadership ; in 1923 Earle Page had demanded that the Nationalist Party, one of the forerunners of the Liberals, remove Billy Hughes as leader before he would even consider coalition talks.

The most important of these forerunners was Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr .. Holmes ’ s work has had an especially powerful impact on American Legal Realist thought.

These last cars had exhausts that were specially tuned to imitate the note of their illustrious forerunners from a half-century earlier, and a dash-mounted plaque indicating each car's sequence in production.

In November 2006, Comcast ( which eventually had the largest ownership stake in most of the network through mergers of forerunners of TCI and Continental under various circumstances ) acquired Disney's 39. 5 % share of E!

As a consequence of the nationalisation of the railways in 1948 some of these activities had been hived-off to other nationalised industries and institutions, e. g. " Railway Air Services Limited " was one of the forerunners of British Airways ; the railways ' road transport services, which had carried freight, parcels and passengers ' luggage to and from railheads, ultimately became part of the National Freight Corporation, but not until 1969.

Johann Ambrosius ' uncle, Heinrich of Arnstadt, had two sons: Johann Michael and Johann Christoph, who are among the greatest of J. S. Bach's forerunners, Johann Christoph being once supposed to be the author of the motet, Ich lasse dich nicht (" I will not leave you "), formerly ascribed to Sebastian Bach and now confirmed to be his ( BWV 159a ).

Breakdancing had arrived a year earlier and spread quickly, its forerunners known as Robot Lasse, Mark, Spirio and Perkeles.

The forerunners of the Jobcentre Plus were the government-run Labour Exchanges, originally the vision of Winston Churchill, President of the Board of Trade and William Beveridge, who had worked for a more efficient labour system in the early years of the 20th century.

By 1958 the San Diego Racing Assn had transformed from a jalopy association to more sleek modified sportsman ( the forerunners of today's super modifieds ).

Prior to the Clone Wars, the Old Republic had constructed a fleet of 200 Dreadnaughts ( huge forerunners to Imperial Star Destroyers ) that were highly automated.

The forerunners of the Protestant Reformation in Grandson included the coup of Guillaume Farel, who had destroyed the altars of the Franciscan church in 1531, and the sermons of the French priest Jean Le Comte.

These associations of the Young Bengal group were forerunners of later organisations such as the Landholders ’ Society, British India Society, and British Indian Association with all of which the Young Bengal group had links.

Leyland Motors already had its own coachworks established just after the Great War, next to Leyland in the neighbouring parish of Farington, it was on stream by 1921, most Lions and many Lionesses had been bodied there ; a pre-Rackham feature was that Leyland Motors would also license the designs to other coachworks, but would take to law those building " pirated " Leyland designs ; a significant difference between these forerunners and the body for the Titan is that it was patented.

The forerunners of pleasure punts, fishing punts, usually had an additional compartment, called a " well ," which extended across the width of the punt a little way in front of the till.

Greek tragedy in verse dates to the 6th century B. C., and may have been an influence on the development of Sanskrit drama, just as Indian drama in turn appears to have influenced the development of the bianwen verse dramas in China, forerunners of Chinese Opera.

William Stukeley FRS, FRCP, FSA ( 7 November 1687 – 3 March 1765 ) was an English antiquarian who pioneered the archaeological investigation of the prehistoric monuments of Stonehenge and Avebury, work for which he has been remembered as " probably ... the most important of the early forerunners of the discipline of archaeology ".

The African Methodist Episcopal Church has been one of the forerunners of education within the African-American community.

In his tenth book of madrigals ( 1591 ), six of the compositions may have been intended for a solo singer with instrumental accompaniment, in the manner of the monodies which were one of the forerunners of opera.

In 1704, the House of Lords overturned a ruling of the Queen's Bench in the " Rose Case ", which effectively gave apothecaries the right to practice medicine, meaning that apothecaries may been viewed as forerunners of present-day General Practitioners.

Modern groups and researchers of the " Rosicrucian Enlightenment " suggest that there is much evidence that the Rosicrucian Order not only has made herself known in the early 17th century through the Rosicrucian Manifestos, but has been active since the beginning of the Renaissance period, not only as an hermetic Order, but also through forerunners – geniuses of the western world, sometimes also known to be Freemasons – in the literary, cultural, ethical, political, religious and scientific fields.

It has been renamed " Forum Venalicium " ( slave market ) in reference to Wallsend-On-Tyne's Roman pastThe Jobcentre Plus service ( and its forerunners the Social Security office, Unemployment Benefit office and Jobcentre / Labour Exchange ) have featured in all forms of popular culture, often depicted in a general way to suggest poverty or unemployment.

The 3rd and the Mortal were one of the forerunners of the atmospheric metal scene having been one of the first to have a leading female singer, they inspired bands such as The Gathering, Flowing Tears and Nightwish.

Shell is one of the forerunners, along with Jean-Joseph Goux and others, of the literary-critical movement that has been dubbed ' New Economic Criticism.

Underwater Demolition Teams have been used since World War II for reconnaissance duties, clearing underwater obstacles planted by the enemy, advance landings on beaches, and offensive underwater attacks on enemy ships, and were the forerunners of the Navy SEALs.

It and its forerunners have been integral parts of the University of Adelaide since the early 1880s.

" Rock "' or its forerunners electric blues ( Chicago blues ) and rhythm and blues ( Jump blues ) was first heard in the late 1940s by Canadians who were living close enough to the American border to tune in to American radio station broadcasts.

The unique and realistic portraits in the Boyana Church class as forerunners of the Renaissance.

As one prominent journal has noted, al-Ḥākim has attracted the interest of modern historians more than any other member of the Fatimid dynasty because of ... " His eccentric character, the inconsistencies and radical shifts in his conduct and policies, the extreme austerity of his personal life, the vindictive and sanguinary ruthlessness of his dealing with the highest officials of his government coupled with an obsession to suppress all signs of corruption and immorality in public life, his attempted annihilation of Christians and call for the systematic destruction of all Christian holy places in the middle east culminating in the destruction of the most holy Church of the Resurrection in Jerusalem, his deification by a group of extremist Isma ' li missionaries who became the forerunners and founders of the Druze religion, all combine to contrast his reign sharply with that of any of his predecessors and successors and indeed of any Muslim ruler ....

The Druids in Britain were forerunners of the Celtic Christian Church.

They were forerunners of the post-punk revival of the early 2000s, as they mixed their early post-punk sound with electronic and dance elements.

Paradoxically, he was also one of the forerunners of its revival.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

Medieval scholars may be considered forerunners of modern anthropology as well, insofar as they conducted or wrote detailed studies of the customs of peoples considered " different " from themselves in terms of geography.

Moody's preaching and Sankey's musical gifts were significant ; their arrangements were the forerunners of gospel music, and churches all over the U. S. were eager to acquire them.

Though these machines are early forerunners to computer engineering, the calculator failed to be a great commercial success.

Santander's followers, forerunners of the Liberals, wanted a decentralized government, state rather than church control over education and other civil matters, and a broadened suffrage.

However, prior to that, legal scholars ( forerunners of today's comparativists and international lawyers ) practiced comparative method.

Pissarro studied from great forerunners, including Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.

This takes the form in some cases of specific prophesy, but in most cases of foreshadowing by types or forerunners.

Progressive education can be traced as far back as to the works of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, with both being respectively known as paternal forerunners to the ideas that would be demonstrated by the likes of Dewey.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus characterized these historians as the forerunners of Thucydides, and these local histories continued to be written into Late Antiquity, as long as the city-states survived.

Although belonging to the Bronze Age, they were the forerunners of the Iron Age, developing the manufacture of iron artifacts from as early as the 14th century BC, when letters to foreign rulers reveal the latter's demand for iron goods.

The Hussites ( or Kališníci ; " Chalice People ") were a Christian movement following the teachings of Czech reformer Jan Hus ( c. 1369 – 1415 ), who became one of the forerunners of the Protestant Reformation.

In the early Pleistocene, the forerunners of modern jaguars crept across Beringia, the land bridge that once spanned the Bering Strait and connected Asia and North America.

The characters on Sam and Friends were forerunners of Muppets, and the show included a prototype of Henson's most famous character: Kermit the Frog.

Some scholars have upset the standard account of the origins of International law, which emphasises the seminal text De iure belli ac pacis by Grotius, and argued for Vitoria and, later, Suárez's importance as forerunners and, potentially, founders of the field.

* L. E. G. I. O. N., a 1989 DC Comics title and a team of superheroes, the 20th Century forerunners to the Legion of Superheroes