Comte alone, among the new historical school, has seen the necessity of thus connecting all our generalizations from history with the laws of human nature.
Having thus no previous empirical generalizations with which to collate the conclusions of theory, the only mode of direct verification which remains is to compare those conclusions with the result of an individual experiment or instance.
Neither of these generalizations has the smallest appearance of being an ultimate law.
Many even of the truths of geometry weregeneralizations from experience before they were deduced from first principles.
He can get on well enough with approximate generalizations on human nature, since what is true approximately of all individuals is true absolutely of all masses.
They must be taken exclusively from the generalizations by which scientific thinkers have ascended to great and comprehensive laws of natural phenomena.
The great generalizations which begin as Hypotheses, must end by being proved, and are in reality (as will be shown hereafter) proved, by the Four Methods.
In our inquiries into the nature of the inductive process, we must not confine our notice to such generalizations from experience as profess to be universally true.
Those who have not read it will be surprised to hear that it is not confined to the formulating of generalizations on poetic art; it is full of eloquent passages on human life and human conduct.
His criticism came many years afterwards, and, as Rossetti used to say, 'his critical work consists of generalizations of his own experience in the poet's workshop.
No attempt is made to formulate generalizations upon the principles of literary art, and this must be said in their praise--they are faultless as articles in a book of reference.
In India, with its genius for philosophical refinement, we might expect to find this latter class of gods; but Indian thought speedily passed into the large pantheistic and other generalizations that absorbed the lesser abstractions.
When men identified their interests exclusively with the concerns of a narrow group, their generalizationswere correspondingly restricted.
Getting command of technique and of methods of reaching and testing generalizations is at first secondary to getting appreciation.
It is for the sciences to say what generalizations are tenable about the world and what they specifically are.
The generalizations of truth and right widen at every stage, and produce a theory of welfare, which must be recognized as such, no matter how rude it may be.
The generalizations are very crude and vague in their germinal forms.
They are selections from a great array of facts from which the generalizations were deduced.
The popular opinions always contain broad fallacies, half-truths, and glib generalizations of fifty years before.
It is not right that ethical generalizations should get dogmatic authority and be made the rule of life.
They are thought to be such by virtue of applications of some generalizations of evolutionary philosophy whose correctness, and whose application to this domain, have never been proved.
The ethnographical facts which I present are not subsequent justification of generalizations otherwise obtained.
They are reflections on, andgeneralizations from, the experience of pleasure and pain which is won in efforts to carry on the struggle for existence under actual life conditions.
The mores are the folkways, including the philosophical and ethical generalizations as to societal welfare which are suggested by them, and inherent in them, as they grow.
The philosophical and ethical generalizations which are produced by the mores rise into a realm of intellect and reason which is proud, noble, and grand.
Their principles for judging right and wrong in particular cases are themselves generalizationsfrom particular observations of the effect of certain acts upon happiness and misery.
The student of history will have little doubt that the rules of conduct which the intuitionalist takes as ultimate deliverances of a moral faculty are in truth generalizations of the sort indicated by Mill.
To consider the rules of morality as improvable is one thing; to pass over the intermediate generalizations entirely and endeavor to test each individual action directly by the first principle, is another.
Upon the purely scientific side, however, one must confess that the "Poissons Fossiles" is of minor importance for the reason that as time has gone by it has been found to yield no generalizations of fundamental value.
Still less satisfactory is our attempt to investigate the causes on which our partial generalizations depend,--to attempt to break to pieces the "other things being equal" which baffle us in our search for general laws.
To each of these generalizations there are occasional partial exceptions, but not such as to invalidate the rule.
The schools of Ratzel in Germany and Le Play in France are, however, fertile in generalizations that are far too pretty to be true.
Generalizations of this kind are largely responsible for the wrongful tendency to reject from the dietary many altogether harmless articles.
The generalizations of many writers upon this subject are too sweeping, for exceptions may be found to any rule.
It would be venturesome to suggest very definite generalizations with respect to the precise influence of these conditions, because, so far as the writer is aware, the psychology of isolation has not been worked out.
That the results actually effected are extremely valuable is evident, not only from the wide surface which the generalizations cover, but also from the extraordinary precautions with which they have been made.
Now, however, the generalizations of moralists have ceased to control the affairs of men, and have made way for the larger doctrine of expediency, which includes all interests and all classes.
For this descending scheme being opposed to the ascending or inductive scheme, neglects those lower generalizations which are the only ones that both classes understand, and, therefore, the only ones where they sympathize with each other.
For these lowergeneralizations form a neutral ground, which speculative minds and practical minds possess in common, and on which they meet.
Mary Kingsley has some interesting generalizations on this point.
I made no attempt to answer "A Tenant, not at will," because the subject is much too wide for any detailed treatment in a letter; and you do not care for generalizations of mine.
But I am sure your two correspondents, and the large class of sufferers which they represent, would be very sincerely grateful for some generalizations of yours on this matter.
Prices for Hiroshige prints vary so with the quality of the impression that generalizations are impossible.
The following very rough generalizations may suggest something to the inexperienced collector.
If we can argue by analogy from studies made in other parts of the world, including the North Atlantic, we can make some basic generalizations that we would expect to apply to the birds of our area.
Most generalizations of population biology have been derived from the study of insects, songbirds, or game species.
Theoretical Considerations Can useful generalizations be drawn from these observations on population changes?
Perhaps the most important of his generalizations is that by which he has given us the clue to the limitation of the different epochs in past times by connecting them with the great revolutions in the world's history.
The great generalizations of embryology, which science owes so largely to the researches of Karl Ernst von Baer, bear to the theory of descent the same relations that Kepler’s laws bear to the theory of gravitation.
A complete separation of facts from generalizations could not, however, be carried out; it appeared convenient to close the account of each genus with a summary of the results obtained from the various species.
In other words, all of our generalizations applying to average pupils must be applied with a knowledge of the extent and range of variation from the average.
Perhaps those most frequently employed are our generalizations regarding adolescence and its influences upon the mental and especially the emotional life of high-school pupils.
As observation becomes more minute, and the mind advances in culture and power of discrimination, these ruder generalizations are either abandoned or subdivided into genera and species, and the process assumes a scientific form.
And so on to the highest and widest generalizations of science.
This is the sublimest of all the generalizations of science.
They are not generalizationsbased on careful induction of facts; they are only arbitrary hypotheses.
The generalizations of our philosophy grow wider, the gropings of our sympathetic faith become vaster, the retrospection and the prevision of our science keener and longer and more inclusive, every generation.
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