Hitherto both the historian and the ethnologist have ascribed their remains to the later Celtæ, the first historical race of Northern Europe, introducing thereby confusion and cumulative error into all reasoning on their data.
General beliefs often have a very slight original basis, but gradually grow until their cumulativepower is enormous.
The draft occasions the cold, but it gets its deadly qualities from cumulative belief and fear.
But there being no base or harbor of refuge, disaster succeeded disaster in a cumulative fashion, and the Russian fleet was annihilated in deep water.
Every advantage gained makes one side relatively weaker to the other than it was before, and increases the chance that the same side will gain another advantage; gains and losses are cumulative in their effect.
One or both of these evils must result wherever individuals, whether young or old, cannot engage in a progressively cumulative undertaking under conditions which engage their interest and require their reflection.
There exists a cumulative body of fairly stable methods for reaching results, a body authorized by past experience and by intellectual analysis, which an individual ignores at his peril.
This reconstruction must relegate purely literary methods--including textbooks--and dialectical methods to the position of necessary auxiliary tools in the intelligent development of consecutive and cumulative activities.
It includes cognition in the degree in which it is cumulative or amounts to something, or has meaning.
This cumulative movement of action toward a later result is what is meant by growth.
There is none of that cumulative growth which makes an experience in any vital sense of that term.
Given an activity having a time span and cumulative growth within the time succession, an aim means foresight in advance of the end or possible termination.
But all the events on the lonely island are admirably harmonized and have a cumulative effect.
The cumulative efforts of a succession of energetic rulers elevated Lagash to the position of a metropolis in Ancient Babylonia.
The cumulative effect of such evidence forces us to regard as not wholly satisfactory and conclusive the hypothesis of cultural influence.
Nor can implicit trust be placed on every reference to historical events, for the memoried deeds of great rulers were not always unassociated with persistent andcumulative myths.
Sidenote: The menace to progress] This sterilization of ability has cumulative results.
A high interest rate does not of itself insure a high degree of cumulative abstinence; it is only one of several factors.
Education is cumulative in so far as it builds up a better environment into which other children will be born, but the betterment is not due to the inheritance by the child of the acquired knowledge and skill of the parent.
There has not yet been time for many of the cumulative effects of this process to appear.
For convenience we may speak of conservative abstinence as that which keeps men from using up or invading their present stock of resources, and of cumulative abstinence as that which impels them to add to that stock.
A clogging lassitude had descended upon her, the reaction ofcumulative nervous stress, anesthetizing her will, her desires, her very limbs.
While all this cumulativeevidence shows that the settlers did better in Virginia than in England, it fails to support the Rebel pretension of to-day.
All these cumulative measures refer to war, not as actually existing, but only as a future possibility.
There is no experience, no learning, no cumulative process.
A true logic or technique of inquiry would make advance in the industrial, agricultural and medical arts continuous, cumulative and deliberately systematic.
By cumulative excitation some very remarkable results have latterly been attained along this line.
Here is the present power of the resurrection acting concurrently with the mass of cumulative evidence converging in the point when it was an event of actual history, and combining therewith to show the truth of it.
Those who wish to see the cumulative force of the entire argument will find it in "the Jesus of the Evangelists.
In spite of such large doses, these observers never noticed any symptoms that could be attributed to a cumulative action.
Sanatogen nourishes the system in a persistent, gradual, cumulative way, so that its best effects unfold themselves in a systematic, substantial progression to health and strength.
Cloetta and the manufacturers of Digalen lay especial stress on the claim that Digalen is cumulative to a far less extent than digitoxin, and that it has far less tendency to cause gastric disturbance than the latter.
Aulde[16] recommends it as a cardiac tonic free from cumulative effects.
It was inferential only, but not circumstantial--inferential in such a cumulative and convincing way as could leave no moral doubt on any intelligent mind as to the guilt of the prisoner.
I would be to supply the one missing link of motive which the prosecution needed to complete their chain of cumulative evidence.
As he read on, his head swam with the cumulative evidence of that deliberately planned and cruelly executed yet brutal murder.
He had been too long accustomed to their practices not to be aware of the cumulative quality of these outrages, and he was too practical a philosopher not to know the wisdom of arresting the virulent stream at its fountain-head.
Abolition of all indirect taxation and the institution of a cumulative tax on all incomes and inheritance exceeding L300.
In the week of distracting and cumulative suspense that had elapsed since his secret had been revealed to her, their relations had continued as before.
The cumulative result of it, on every hand, in the common aim for food, comfort, happiness, and progress!
The biological advantage of a longer period of immaturity is in its cumulative value to the race, the older parent having more development to transmit.
Successive generations of individuals may be affected by the cumulative pressure of progress, but not the race itself.
But how great is thecumulative evidence of the four together to the exactness of the account of the race's origin, establishment, and education, which we receive through Moses.
But considering the importance of the present question, it may be well to exhibit in systematic detail the cumulative argument which has just been summed up, even at the risk of repeating to some extent the results previously given.
Against the formidable array of cumulative evidence offered for Determinism there is to be set the immediate affirmation of consciousness in the moment of deliberate action.
And, in fact, the Utilitarian argument cannot be fairly judged unless we take fully into account the cumulativeforce which it derives from the complex character of the coincidence between Utilitarianism and Common Sense.
On the Determinist side there is a cumulative argument of great force.
