Thus we have a very wide basis of fact for the generalisation that plants are essentially characterised by their manufacturing capacityby their power of working up mere mineral matters into complex organic compounds.

Contrariwise, there is a no less wide foundation for the generalisation that animals, as Cuvier puts it, depend directly or indirectly upon plants for the materials of their bodies; that is, either they are herbivorous, or they eat other animals which are herbivorous.

There is touch more generalisation than there used to be as to the sittings in our Parish Church; but "birds of a feather flock together" still.

In such a work of generalisation as this, space will not permit of a detailed account of the return voyage, but on the 20th of March they reached the camp on the Murrumbidgee from which they had started.

He carved an individual being, not an abstraction or a generalisation of personality.

The writer justifies this rather broad generalisation by quoting three instances of such provocation, which I will take one by one.

But I suppose most of them will prove under examination either to be, or to lead to, or to imply very distinctly this generalisation that if most of the intelligent and active people in the Empire want it to continue it will, and that if a large proportion of such active and intelligent people are discontented and estranged, nothing can save it from disintegration.

And he pours into our country every year a fresh supply of gentlemanly cricketing youths, gapingly unpreparedunless they have picked up a broad generalisation or so from some surreptitious Socialist pamphletfor the immense issues they must control, and that are altogether uncontrollable if they fail to control them.

Let us consider some of the key words of contemporary thought, such as Liberalism, Individualism, Socialism, in the light of this broad generalisation we have made; and then we shall find it easier to explain our intention in employing as a second technicality the phrase of The Great State as an opposite to the Normal Social Life, which we have already defined.

As the number of units taken diminishes, the amount of variety and inexactness of generalisation increases, because individuality tells more and more.

It is not only the Socialists who are responsible for the low esteem into which a spirit of political generalisation has fallen in other countries, in consequence of French experience.

Artists are, as a class, possessed of the visualising power in a high degree, and they are at the same time pre-eminently distinguished by their gifts of generalisation.

As a fact it is simply a false generalisation; but he is really trying to make it general.

Harnack is so certain that the German and Englishman are almost alike, that he really risks the generalisation that they are exactly alike.

Mr. Herbert Spencer, indeed, attempted to turn a single hasty generalisation from the history of biological evolution into a complete social philosophy of his own, and preached a 'beneficent private war' which he conceived as exactly equivalent to that degree of trade competition which prevailed among English provincial shopkeepers about the year 1884.

But stay, son trône est la tombe; that makes the verse, and the generalisation would be in the "line" of Hugo.

What if this conception be narrow, what if it be simply a generalisation, a generalisation from too few observations?

What if this conception be narrow, what if it be simply a generalisation, a generalisation from too few observations?

This generalisation is repeated with an emphasis that surprises us, for two reasons.

It is time some fundamental things were agreed upon, and although standardising must not be allowed to become stereotyping, at present constructive generalisation is needed, as well as the upsetting of out-grown traditions.

It is all a matter of statistics, not of generalisation.

"Well, a thing like the existence of God," said Father Payne; "that at best is only a generalisation from an immense range of facts, and a special interpretation of them.

A generalisation of this kind acted on Father Payne very often like a ferret on a rabbit.

But stay, son trône est la tombe; that makes the verse, and the generalisation would be in the "line" of Hugo.

But he attacked her generalisation.