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There is a terrible contradiction in the concept of a religious war.

I was charmed with it, adopted it, dropped my abrupt contradiction and positive argumentation, and put on the humble inquirer and doubter.

Between these two extremes of broad distinction, and no distinction, lies the ground occupied by the scientific student, who, whilst admitting that logical definition fails in assigning briefly and tersely the bounds of the three kingdoms, contends [Pg 2] that such limits exist so positively, that the universal scientific mind accepts the recognized limit without controversy or contradiction.

” If these men were thus censur’d, I may iustly then expect to be derided by most, and to be believed by few or none; especially since this opinion seemes to carry in it so much strangenesse, so much contradiction to the generall consent of others.

To such as were come with a great deale of prejudice, and an intent of contradiction.

He had said before that he came to see those strange sights discovered by Galilæus his glasse with an intent of contradiction, and you 130 may reade that confirmed in the weakenesse of this answere, which rather bewrayes an obstinate then a perswaded will, for otherwise sure hee would never have undertooke to have destroyed such certaine proofes with so groundlesse a fancy.

" "Give me," said his wife, folding her little hands and looking round her with a warlike expression, as if inviting contradiction-"give me Canaan City, New Hampshire, for gayety.

Perhaps the early “cyclonologists” themselves hardly realized that a “gentle cyclone” was not a contradiction in terms.

We can cast their flimsy statements to the winds, however, and give them an emphatic contradiction, for their proceedings in this matter will not bear even a partial investigation.

The contradiction is formal, positive, and irreconcilable.

What matters its apparent contradiction with the laws of nature,[22] such as we understand them to-day?

To insist upon proving, in broad daylight, the reality of the delicate phosphorescences which it has been given me to observe, is a glaring contradiction.

The question is, not whether such or such a phenomenon does or does not concord with recognised ideas, but whether the phenomenon exists or does not exist-always supposing, of course, that it be not in flagrant contradiction with established and verified truths.

The subconscious excuse for the contradiction pointed out is not wanting in humour.

The explanation of the contradiction between the names given successively is very illogical, but it is what might be called ‘a good hit.

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