There must be a cumulation of arguments on one side and on the other, of which only the heads or the results can be put upon paper.
There is nothing so easy as the creation and the cumulation of fearful incidents after this fashion.
And this process is not less a process of cumulation than any other sort of development or so-called “progress” in history is.
On the contrary, it seems to me that we have here simply what we meet everywhere in history--a sort of cumulation resting upon a psychological basis.
Philosophically it remains a sum of contingencies, in which certain laws of cumulation and certain series of cumulationmay be discovered.
In neither case was cumulation nor tolerance observed under the conditions of these experiments.
The appearance of symptoms after smaller doses of caffein in the latter experiments might suggest cumulative action, but since these symptoms disappeared on continued administration of the substance cumulation is clearly not indicated.
The evidence brought forth in the preceding pages regarding cumulation of caffein naturally suggests the question whether or not the body acquires a tolerance for it.
Although in both rabbits and dogs absence of cumulation was evident, in other respects decided differences in the resistance to caffein were observed.
In another series of tests, made after he was allowed to rest a few days, he again failed to show any cumulation of the drug, as he survived this time a series of tests of longer duration than the first.
Whether this proof be satisfactory or not, it is properly a cumulation of evidence, by no means a naked or solitary record.
Now, there is in the evangelic history a cumulation of testimony which belongs hardly to any other history, but which our habitual mode of reading the Scriptures sometimes causes us to overlook.
Thus thecumulation of the trya.nukas of mahat parimâ.na makes things of still more mahat parimâ.na.
