But, to employ a word that I do not often use, I might adumbrate the proposals.

As said the first Greek philosopher, Empedocles, who 560 B.C. adumbrated the "survival of the fittest" theory of Darwin, they are the result of ceaseless trials of nature.

At the same time, while the inductions drawn by Mr. Spencer from the data of ethics show that the moral-sense doctrine in its original form is not true, they also show that it adumbrates a truth, and a much higher truth.

And during it all an eternal song, of which it catches now and then a few words which adumbrate still higher wonders.