The arguments used against him have thus an equally valid application to all who adopt the same general line of thought.
Besides, it would be no valid ground of preference for men in general; since the pleasure of various actions and states differs according to the susceptibility of the subject.
Mr Bain's doctrine is founded on the hypothesis of the identity of the nervous centres which function in representation and in sensation, and is therefore valid of all representations or ideas.
It starts with assuming the notion of an "improving state" of the human mind, as determined according to an ethical standard not yet arrived at; and it gives no valid account of the means by which the improvement is to be brought about.
She wondered if there could be any valid reason for the persistent recurrence of these stories of financial shakiness behind their rival's outward show of prosperity.
This thing was monstrous--no valid hope of permanent happiness in it.
Miss Woolfrey has nothing to say, can put forward no valid reason for bothering the commander-in-chief.
To this the bondholders have been invited; but conscious that they have no valid claim, have not sought their remedy.
Was that a just or valid ground for repudiating the whole, principal and interest?
He applied to the alcalde and paid his $16 and got a good, valid title.
Perhaps the Fair Play declaration is apocryphal, but, lacking valid disclaimers, the Hamilton data offer some basis for a judgment.
Obviously, the listings are too limited to offer any valid quantitative analysis.
Although these data are insufficient for any valid generalization, they do conform to the characteristic migratory trends indicated in Chart 3.
Naturally, if a religion is doctrinal, any truth which it possesses, as a secret deposit consigned to its keeping by a revelation, must be equally valid for one man as for another, without regard to race or nation.
Now, since the clauses of an international deed that are to the advantage of one of the contracting parties have never been carried out, it is impossible that the obligations contracted by this party should be considered as valid still.
Moreover, the Allies, by allowing the Greeks to land in Smyrna without any valid reason, had started a current of opinion which strengthened the nationalist movement, and raised the whole of Turkey against them.
It may be done in every Rebel State; and if not in every other State of the Union, it will be simply because the existence of a valid State government excludes the exercise of this extraordinary power.
Neither distance, nor illness, might be pleaded as a valid excuse.
It is questionable whether there be a single valid argument favoring such practice.
And thus, the only valid issue of the ontological argument is a system of absolute idealism, of which the theological corollary is pantheism.
The only valid inference from the phenomena of design would be that of a phenomenal first cause.
The effects it examines, and from which it infers a cause, are finite, while the cause it assumes is infinite; but the infinity of the cause can be no valid inference, from an indefinite number of finite effects.
To be valid as it proceeds, it ought to prove that the notion thus necessary in thought, has a real counterpart in the realm of things, in order to vindicate the step it so quietly takes from the ideal notion to the world of real existence.
But, to return, if the inference from design is valid at all, it must be valid everywhere--all the phenomena of the world must yield it equally.
They are merely negative, and indeed clear the ground for other and more validmodes of proof.
Seemingly valid on the limited area of finite observation and of human agency, it disappears when the whole universe is seen to be one vast network of interconnected law and order.
Therefore, if the few phenomena which our teleologists single out from the many are a valid index to the character of the source whence they have proceeded, everything that exists must find its counterpart in the divine nature.
For if K be a system of co-ordinates relatively to which the Lorentzian ether is at rest, the Maxwell-Lorentz equations are valid primarily with reference to K.
If this law were notvalid for real clocks, the proper frequencies for the separate atoms of the same chemical element would not be in such exact agreement as experience demonstrates.
As a result the arrangement below was made, including all valid kinds already named and those here newly named from Brazil.
And what is valid in the case of a poor hack is more so in that of railroad-cars, whether emigrant or Pullman.
Some recent authors included bacterium and bacillus under one genus, bacillus; against which simplification there seems to be no valid objection.
There may be no valid objection against classing it among the fevers, but there can be no excuse for denominating it cerebro-spinal fever.
County certificates issued by the County Board of Examiners are of three classes, valid for one, two and four years respectively.
The phrase "unto this day" is not necessarilyvalid (cf.
With all my heart do I bless the booming work (though not the booming anything else) which makes for you from day to day the valid carapace, the invincible, if not perhaps strictly invulnerable, armour.
If hybridization did occur, the differences in mating call subsequently were enhanced, thereby providing a valid isolating mechanism in sympatric populations.
Air temperatures were noted at the time the calls were recorded, but no valid correlation could be determined between this factor and any of the parameters of the calls; consequently recordings made at all temperatures (21-29 deg.
The said First Admiral is hereby certified that the said decree of His Imperial Majesty is not required to be inserted in his patent, as he requests in his letter of the 26th instant, the said decree being as valid as the patent itself.
No argument," he says, "can be valid which founds on innate ideas, or which embraces considerations so entirely beyond the range of human apprehension that we cannot positively be assured whether they be true or false.
Mr Spencer, I have said, does not accept as valid the arguments cited.
It cannot be stated in any valid form which does not imply the legitimacy of the arguments from efficiency and order.
Sir William Hamilton has also affirmed that "the only valid arguments for the existence of God, and for the immortality of the human soul, rest on the ground of man's moral nature.
So be it; the argument is as valid if the words be taken in that sense as in any other.
The argument from order must further be admitted sufficient to show, if valid at all, that the wisdom of the First Cause is of the most wondrous character.
Of course it is not certain that this is a valid argument.
The almost universal non-inheritance of mutilations seems to me a far more valid argument against a general law of modification-inheritance than the few doubtful or abnormal cases of such inheritance can furnish in its favour.
Valid cause for Divorce Number Ninety-three: The state of the bedroom floor," Leslie had pursued.
Then only, when this last attempt should have failed, was the religious treaty to become valid and conclusive.
In this uprising a certain portion of the population, and indeed that which had the most valid claim to aboriginality, the so-called Negritos, were not involved.
