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Example sentences for "this theory"

  • If I am not deluded by a prejudice in favour of my own researches, this theory is a contribution to truth.

  • This theory is also found among more civilized peoples, as for instance in the Vedic philosophy and the Kabbala, and it has come down to our days among the common people, and even among those of some culture.

  • This latter view Weismann holds to be the correct one, and, on this theory, heredity depends on the fact that a substance of special molecular composition passes over from one generation to another.

  • Certain observations on the embryology of the lower animals are held to afford direct proof of this theory of heredity, but they are too technical to be made clear to ordinary readers.

  • This theory is felt to be so ponderously complex and difficult that it has met with no general acceptance among physiologists.

  • Obviously, there are persons who have psychiatric illnesses, as defined by this theory.

  • This theory is in a total opposition with all the actual sciences associated with the functions of the brain.

  • In the days when there was hardly any knowledge of chemistry and physics, this theory no doubt bore every semblance of truth.

  • Remnants of this theory (which does--shall I say?

  • On this theory of punishment, the man who in his last probational suffering refuses to amend, must be let drop out of existence as incorrigible, and so clearly his final state is one of misery.

  • This theory is the resuscitation of one current among the Sophists at Athens, and described by Plato thus.

  • I have three preliminary observations to make before I proceed to the direct examination of this theory.

  • But, if one follows the chain of ideas as logically unrolled, in the way that a mathematician follows the transformations of an algebraical formula, without considering its real contents, it is easy to account for the origin of this theory.

  • The men of blood who for a short time governed France, gave once as the order of the day--Terror and all the virtues: this was a terrible application of this theory.

  • The author of this theory renders a worship to that ideal which does not exist, and towards which he affirms nevertheless that the world is gravitating by the law of progress.

  • On this theory 'the lowest savages' are devoid of the idea of god or of spirit.

  • To this theory of metaphysical genius in very low savages I have no objection to offer.

  • Footnote 10: This theory is what Mr. Spencer calls 'Animism,' and does not believe in.

  • The natural inference is 'private information,' about which the only difficulty is that Carver, who knew the topography and the chances of a secret messenger arriving to prompt the Jossakeed, does not allude to this theory.

  • This theory is suggestive, and leads to several important results, but it is open to serious criticism, and does not furnish a sufficient explanation.

  • This theory in the main is suggested by Rohde, Der griechische Roman, 2d ed.

  • A slight, though not a fatal, objection to this theory lies in the fact that the prologues to comedy subsequent to Plautus changed in their character, and contain little narrative.

  • Why, say the advocates of this theory, the icebergs press upon the bottom of the sea, and with the stones adhering to their base they make those striæ.

  • Here, then, are the objections to this theory of the glacier-origin of the Drift: I.

  • This theory was, in turn, given up, and mankind were then positive that glaciers caused the Drift.

  • This theory, of course, requires an absolute reversal of attitude upon the part of many millions of whites.

  • The combined influence of St. Paul and Sir Walter Scott is responsible for a part of this theory, though its development was probably inevitable from the structure of society in the Old South.

  • According to this theory, the North won because the South could not manufacture goods for its needs, because it did not possess ships to bring in goods from abroad, and because it could not build a navy to defend its ports.

  • This theory helps to support the contention, for which there is small evidence, that Peter was the first bishop of Rome.

  • The verbal resemblances as well as the verbal differences are thus explained by this theory of an oral gospel, prepared at first for preaching by the apostles, and held only in their memory.

  • This theory of the tax, moreover, is but one of the special articles of what is called the social contract.

  • Now we have to present the counter-proof of this theory.

  • Explain then, once for all, this theory of the right of unproductive consumption; this jurisprudence of caprice, this religion of idleness, the sacred prerogative of a caste of the elect.

  • To understand the application of this theory we must first recall the fact that the earth is a great magnet having its two opposite poles of magnetism, one near the Arctic and the other near the Antarctic Circle.

  • The apparent forms of some of the nebulæ which the telescope had revealed were regarded, and by some are still regarded, as giving visual evidence in favor of this theory.

  • Be that as it may, this theory, which once seemed paradoxical, quite loses its fantastic air when considered in the light of our discovery.

  • The association of giants and dwarfs in certain places, even the confusion of the two races, seems somewhat difficult of explanation by this theory.

  • An early statement of this theory is to be found in a paper by Mr. J.


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