Both Uses of
essential
in
The War of the Worlds
- I think everyone expected to see a man emerge—possibly something a little unlike us terrestrial men, but in all essentials a man.
Chpt 1.4 *essentials = important ways
- He pointed out—writing in a foolish, facetious tone—that the perfection of mechanical appliances must ultimately supersede limbs; the perfection of chemical devices, digestion; that such organs as hair, external nose, teeth, ears, and chin were no longer essential parts of the human being, and that the tendency of natural selection would lie in the direction of their steady diminution through the coming ages.
Chpt 2.2essential = necessary
Definition:
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(essential) necessary or important or relating to the basic nature of something