Nor has an idea to reckon only with facts: it has also to cohere with other ideas.

This stuff, when not purified by the lustration of fire, rots uncleanly into something we call life; seized through all its atoms with a pediculous malady; swelling in tumours that become independent, sometimes even (by an abhorrent prodigy) locomotory; one splitting into millions, millions cohering into one, as the malady proceeds through varying stages.

Ideas have a fixed meaning, and cohere in bodies of 'universal' truth, quite irrespective of whether any particular mind harbours them or not.

Successive order is like a column with steps from the highest to the lowest; but simultaneous order is like a work cohering from the centre to the surface.

Yet he found it well not to have it too sensitive lest it cohere for every stray current and so give false signals.

Thus the British Navy is really national because it is natural; it has cohered out of hundreds of accidental adventures of ships and shipmen before Chaucer's time and after it.

He perceived clearly enough that no society can preserve its identity without limitations; that no association can cohere without definite rules that must be obeyed.