primary element

This primary element of his nature soon enthroned his chosen lady above their tangled obscurities.

By means of this primary element, compounded in various ways, Adam Smith explains all the phenomena of the moral consciousness.

The primary element is a simple irreducible perception of the distinction between right and wrong.

We must turn to the other great primary element of modesty, the social factor.

Knowledge, then, supplemented in this life by faith, is the primary element of blessedness.