More emphasis is laid on the decisive actions of individuals, which cannot be reduced under generalisations and which deflect the course of events.
As already intimated, this narrowness of view had its compensations, for it deferred generalisations until some adequate foundations for these had been laid.
Broad theories and generalisations are mingled with personal influences, with prevalent prejudices; and not only coloured but altered by phases of hopefulness and moods of depression.
Unsound principles of conduct have been inculcated in Religion as unsound generalisations have been set up in Science.
But it is certain as can be that he only has to extend the number of his facts, or his powers of observation, to get all his generalisations upset.
Science passes from phenomena to laws, from individual details which can be seen and felt to large generalisations of an intangible and phantom-like character.
Finally, to give a last form to the mechanical theory of heat, the conception of flying atoms or molecules was introduced, and a number of neat generalisations were deduced from dynamical considerations.
Meanwhile, since we must have formulae and generalisations to think by, we are fain to accept our local views, and look on the world from this side or from that.
The generalisations by which Newton established the nature of the planetary orbits has been a wonder to succeeding generations; the positions of the planets can be foretold, eclipses can be calculated with amazing accuracy.
They are generalisations which are not considered likely to require modification, but which no one pretends to be in the nature of the cause exhaustively and ultimately true.
But if suchgeneralisations as these are to stand as laws, the historian's labour is lost; for the residue of truth, after the obscure and insoluble part is removed, is nothing but the commonest knowledge.
In other sciences the generalisations are the most important things, as they contain the laws.
Rin Teikei, and many of his pictures appear like curved-line generalisations of Chinese groupings, or the forms in Chinese backgrounds.
Thus our firstgeneralisations spring from ignorance rather than from knowledge.
And what is science but the attempt to arrange in a series of generalisations the facts of what we are vain enough to call the known world?
We like Mr. Galsworthy better when he leaves his generalisations and tells stories.
We cannot assume that; nor, on the other hand, need we rummage in our notebooks for ancient generalisations about the fate of ancient prodigies.
Of course a thing of this kind never comes with absolute simplicity of application into the life of man; growth in particular is a complex thing, and all generalisations must needs be a little inaccurate.
Christianity only went a step higher with its generalisations out of the region of the senses; ideas became more spiritual and less corporeal in proportion as they became more general.
And even then we should be ready to admit the possibility of higher generalisations which may uproot them.
This book I thought most interesting, and read it twice, but I doubt whether his generalisations are worth anything.
Of course, there are generalisations possible in literature, and to such I may return presently; but scientific criticism of literature must always be a contradiction in terms.
The generalisations are not always sound, for, as must be constantly repeated, Hazlitt was not widely read in literatures other than his own, and his standpoint for comparison is therefore rather insufficient.
And the way in which it does this is by a constant process of weakening or strengthening, as the case may be, the less or more correct generalisations with which the critic starts, or which he forms in the early days of his reading.
I find generalisations bald and misleading, and politics are a generalisation of events.
You are offering me the generalisations that only apply to ordinary people.
Her generalisationsare always bold, and at times strikingly original.
It would obviously be much wiser for the humanitarians to recognise that incorrect statements, or sweeping generalisations which are incapable of proof, do their cause more harm than good.
He avoided those brilliant and often somewhat specious a priori generalisations in which even the best French authors are at times prone to indulge.
The generalisations of philosophy go to improve our methods so that we may have greater proneness for sense of delight and greater possibility for sense delight.
The increasing correspondence of life with its environment brought about wider and wider generalisations upon that environment and the relations of the individual to it.
My generalisations have been tempered in the heats of passion, and what I know I know, and without hearsay.
He supports his caution by referring to cases in which what had been confidently thought by many to be safe generalisations have been shown to fail in novel circumstances.
It has been said that the ideas of infinity and perfection are mere generalisations from experience.
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