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So that from this Principle well establish'd, we may deduce severall Corollaries not unworthy observation.

Under one aspect a university is a particular kind of educational institution, and the views which we may take of the proper nature of a university are corollaries from those which we hold respecting education in general.

The decline of empire has its Olympic corollaries.

But thanks to Moore's Law and its corollaries, computer power continues to double every 18 months and prices keep falling.

The biological corollaries of changes in gene expression profiles are noteworthy in that they may provide evidence on the molecular targets of Hox genes in cartilage, as well as on the consequences of Hox gene overexpression.

He also gives some corollaries that allow readers to get a sense of the extent of uncertainty for a particular study.

The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics.

It follows from this, according to the prevailing views of penal law, that such liability ought only to be based upon personal fault; and Austin accepts that conclusion, with its corollaries, one of which is that negligence means a state of the party's mind.

These facts of allotropism have some corollaries connected with them rather startling to us of the nineteenth century.

Some important corollaries result from this proposition: (a.

The principle goes farther and adds to the figure of speech just quoted the two following corollaries, viz.

It is not easy, indeed, to make a monopoly of theorems and corollaries.

It is from these stated Principles that a late Philosopher, who (if we set aside his irrational Attachment to some particular Systems) had of all Mankind the greatest Perspicuity and Justness of Reasoning, draws these two Corollaries. 1st. ‘That the Soul is in its own Nature immortal; for nothing but the Power which hath given it this active Life and Being can destroy it: It is entirely out of the Reach of the material World to hurt it: It cannot lay aside its own Thinking, it cannot put itself out of Being: Nor can we conceive how any other Spirit can make it cease to act, i. e. cease to be: Such an active Being as a Spirit cannot be destroy'd but by Annihilation; and surely God, whose Right and Prerogative it is to create or give Being to a Creature, hath not put it into the Power of any Creature to annihilate his Works, or take away their Being.’ 2dly. ‘That, when the human Body dies, the Soul exists and continues to think and act in a separate State: And, when it is freed from all the Avocations of Sensations of sensible Things, it will live more entirely in the Reflexion on its own Operations, and will commence a State of Happiness or Misery, according to its own former Conduct; either rejoicing in the [Page 4] Testimony of a good Conscience, or under inward Anguish and bitter Self-Reproaches, from the Consciousness of its own Guilt.’ Perhaps this Author, from an earnest Persuasion of the Truth of his Assertions, drew these Conclusions before his Argument had gained sufficient Ground for such weighty Inferences: For, upon summing up the Evidence of his Reasons, we find he is obliged to use his not being able to conceive how one Spirit can be so prevalent as to annihilate another, as a Proof of the Impossibility of it.

If the reasonings of the preceding chapter are just, the corollaries respecting political truth, which Mr Godwin draws from the proposition, that the voluntary actions of men originate in their opinions, will not appear to be clearly established.

These corollaries are, "Sound reasoning and truth, when adequately communicated, must always be victorious over error: Sound reasoning and truth are capable of being so communicated: Truth is omnipotent: The vices and moral weakness of man are not invincible: Man is perfectible, or in other words, susceptible of perpetual improvement." The first three propositions may be considered a complete syllogism.

Two grievances; or rather we might say one, capable of becoming a hundred; for in that single first proposition, that the Officers are Aristocrats, what a multitude of corollaries lie ready! Yet from such arguments, pro and con, unless I greatly mistake, are to be derived corollaries equally practical and sublime,-the virtue of Action, the obligations of Genius, and the philosophy that teaches us to confide in the destinies, and labour in the service, of mankind.

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