- origin; source; history; derivation
- originally; from the start; by nature
noun (common) (futsuumeishi); noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru
adverb (fukushi)
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It cannot plausibly be argued that behaviour of such complexity derives entirely from instinct.
Again, we can see this approach as deriving from Matthew Arnold's idea that everywhere there is connection.