 | 1861 - Liczba stron: 814
...this mode of reasoning we might demonstrate any proposition ; since in all large fields of inquiry there are a sufficient number of empirical coincidences...there are of such qualities not being hereditary." Now let us ask him whether he considers it an empirical coincidence that uniformly gives the Jewish... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1857 - Liczba stron: 882
...this mode of reasoning we might demonstrate any proposition ; since in all large fields of inquiry there are a sufficient number of empirical coincidences...how many instances there are of hereditary talents, <fcc., but how many instances there are of such qualities not being hereditary. Until something of... | |
 | 1914 - Liczba stron: 1066
...of inquiry there are a sufficient number of empirical coincidences to make a plausible case in favor of whatever view a man chooses to advocate. But this...discovered; and we ought to inquire not only how many cases there are of hereditary talents, and so forth, but also how many there are of such qualities... | |
 | 1913 - Liczba stron: 916
...By this mode of reasoning we might demonstrate any proposition; since in all large fields of inquiry there are a sufficient number of empirical coincidences to make a plausible case in favor of whatever view a man chooses to advocate. But this is not the way in which truth is discovered,... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1858 - Liczba stron: 906
...this mode of reasoning we might demonstrate any proposition ; since in all large fields of inquiry there are a sufficient number of empirical coincidences...how many instances there are of hereditary talents, (be., but how many instances there are of such qualities not being hereditary. Until something of this... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1858 - Liczba stron: 722
...this mode of reasoning we might demonstrate any proposition ; since in all large fields of inquiry there are a sufficient number of empirical coincidences...ought to inquire not only how many instances there arc of hereditary tálente, &c., Whatever, therefore, the moral and intellectual progress of men may... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1858 - Liczba stron: 752
...this mode of reasoning we might demonstrate any proposition ; since in all large fields of inquiry there are a sufficient number of empirical coincidences...discovered ; and we ought to inquire not only how many instance« there are of hereditary talents, &c., Whatever, therefore, the moral and intellectual progress... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1858 - Liczba stron: 894
...large fields of inquiry there are a sufficient number of empirical coincidences to make a plansible case in favour of whatever view a man chooses to advocate....how many instances there are of hereditary talents, ikc., but how many instances there are of such qualities not being hereditary. Until something of this... | |
 | John Timbs - 1859 - Liczba stron: 312
...this mode of reasoning we might demonstrate any proposition ; since in all large fields of inquiry there are a sufficient number of empirical coincidences to make a plausible case in favour of whatever a man chooses to advocate. But this is not the way in which truth is discovered ; and we ought to inquire,... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1860 - Liczba stron: 438
...By this mode of reasoning we might demonstrate any proposition, since in all large fields of inquiry there are a sufficient number of empirical coincidences...favour of whatever view a man chooses to advocate." * It must be admitted that many of the cases collected to prove hereditary transmission have been allowed... | |
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... illogical; the usual course being for writers to collect instances of some mental peculiarity found in a parent and in his child, and then to infer that the peculiarity was bequeathed. By this mode of reasoning we might demonstrate any proposition... 
