There is the difficulty of making any generalisation which will cover the century and a half during which, from time to time, the agrarian problem claimed public attention.
The generalisation is useful in regard to a mass of sales; thus we may say broadly, that in the last century the ordinary large and good libraries averaged about L1 per lot, while in the present century they average at least L2 per lot.
This is a useful generalisation so far as it goes, but further information is required to enable the reader to obtain a correct idea of value.
It is in the special domains of economic history and Culturgeschichte which have come to the front in modern times that generalisation is most fruitful, but even in these it may be contended that it furnishes only partial explanations.
In the prodigious variety and complexity of organic nature, there are multitudes of phenomena which are not deducible from any generalisation we have yet reached.
This is a beautiful example of the extreme generalisation followed by a headlong descent to the minutely specific.
Every now and then, however, the generalisation failed.
Such would be the philosophy of this earth, formed by the highest generalisation of phenomena, a generalisation which had required the particular investigation of inductive reasoning.
The only safe generalisation to make about this, as about so many other problems of medieval social history, is that there can be no generalisation.
First, to enact and promulgate what was afterwards called the cain-law, which was obligatory in all the territories and tribes of the kingdom, as distinguished from the urradhus, or local law.
Reference is then made to the great stone that seemed to fall upon him in a dream, from the weight of which he was relieved by invoking Elias.
Cormac, apparently furnished the groundwork of the present volume by writing for his son's use a series of maxims or principles on the criminal law of Erin, which were afterwards developed by Cormac himself, and by subsequent commentators.
After the death of Amator, Germanus became Bishop of Auxerre, and led a life of extraordinary virtue and austerity, as we know from his biography written by an almost contemporary author, Constantius.
No one, too, was better qualified to guide the steps of Patrick up the steep ascent of virtue, and prepare him for his future apostolate than the aged soldier Saint.
It is quite a popular error to suppose that there were no Christians in Ireland before the time of St. Patrick.
Here we are on firm historic ground and can enter into more minute details with security.
Milcho, he went straight to Tara, where King Laeghaire was then holding his court, and as might be expected, he at once came into collision with the Druids.
In accomplishing this task, which he did with perfect success, Patrick displayed singular firmness and prudence.
Barley bread and water, or a little milk, was his only refection.
His father dwelt in the township (vico) of Bannavem Taberniae.
One or the other must be utterly routed; there could be no league between light and darkness, between Christ and Belial.
The induction is not the result of that careful collection of facts, leading up to an equally careful generalisation and subsequent verification, which is a characteristic of modern science, but it is an induction none the less.
But incidentally the ages of the converts were given in some cases, and one may safely assume that in the reports where no age was mentioned the facts, if disclosed, would not run counter to the generalisation above given.
The discovery of the sexuality of ferns, and the completion of the life-story by Bischoff, Naegeli, and Suminski led up to the great generalisation of Hofmeister.
The President then added: "Of all men living it is to you more than to any other that the great generalisation of Darwin and Wallace owes its triumph.
Side-note: Process of generalisation always kept in view and illustrated throughout the Platonic Dialogues of Search--general terms and propositions made subjects of conscious analysis.
Everywhere (both in the Dialogues of Search and in those of exposition) the process of generalisationis kept in view and brought into conscious notice, directly or indirectly.
Such cases are somewhat obscure, and doubtless depend on different causes in different instances; but they do not affect the important generalisation that limestones are fundamentally the product of the operation of living beings.
When once, namely, a generalisation has been established that certain fossils occur in strata of a certain age, palæontologists are apt to infer that all beds containing similar fossils must be of the same age.
He arrives at this through the conception that Induction is a generalisation from observed particulars, while Deduction is merely the extension of the generalisation to a new case, a new particular.
When this phrase is applied to a generalisation of fact, Nature or Experience is put figuratively in the position of a Respondent unable to contradict the inquirer.
By Induction he meant the generalisation of facts open to sense, the summation of observed particulars, the inductio per enumerationem simplicem of the schoolmen.
Professor Winchell, in his final generalisation to his work, “World Life,” has stated this matter so clearly and forcibly that I cannot do better than here quote his words on the subject.
This is the rough generalisation that obtained in the earlier days of the craze for collecting eighteenth-century furniture.
Jacobean is only a rough generalisationof seventeenth-century furniture.
Another lump of ignorance (which had enabled the old generalisation to exist) was removed, and a new generalisation, that of universal gravitation, was after a time formed.
So many separate and independent strands of thought does it ultimately require to make up the grand final generalisation which the outer world attributes in its totality to the one supreme organising intelligence.
Centralisation is synonymous with generalisation and fixity, and these are the external features by which the festivals of the Priestly Code are distinguished from those which preceded them.
If claim is also laid to the human first-born, this is merely a later generalisation which after all resolves itself merely into a substitution of an animal offering and an extension of the original sacrifice.
We know of no great generalisation that has ever been made by a man unacquainted with the details on which it rests.
The mystic, meditating on the One and the Many, is also in pursuit of a generalisation--the perfect generalisation of the universe.
The generalisation that is founded on a knowledge of and a delight in the variety of things is the end of all science and poetry.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "generalisation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
