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.

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.

I often do when I have been meeting women like Lady Pinkerton, because there is a danger that that kind of woman, so common and in a sense so typical, may get to bulk too large in one's view of women, and lead one into the sin of generalisation.

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

Consequently those aspects of the human form which are capable of most successful generalisation, the body and the limbs, exerted a kind of conventional tyranny over Greek art.

And Greek artists applied to the face the same rules of generalisation which were applicable to the body.

Now, there is only one thing easier than a generalisation, and that is a generalisation in the opposite direction.

Now, there is only one thing easier than a generalisation, and that is a generalisation in the opposite direction.

There was an attempt to eliminate the more conspicuous departures as abnormalities, as sports, nature's weak moments, and it was only with the establishment of Darwin's great generalisation that the hard and fast classificatory system broke down, and individuality came to its own.

The naturalist accumulated facts and multiplied names, but he did not go triumphantly from generalisation to generalisation after the fashion of the chemist or physicist.

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

Nor were the effects of his break from Christian tradition confined to Christendom; Macaulay's world-wide generalisation is very true though very Macaulayese.

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.

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.

That which does resist the miraculous is the unscientific part of induction, or the instinctive generalisation upon this fact....

Is it possible to imagine a more extravagant distortion than the following, both in its general effect and in the audacious generalisation of a very special incident, itself inaccurately conceived of?

His interest in it has furnished him with ample and varied materials for comparison and generalisation.

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.

"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.

On the whole, it seems that the number of tunes known to us are too few, in comparison with the large body of lyric poetry existing, to permit any generalisation upon the question.