 | William Sheldon - 1842 - 462 sider
...as a charlatan ; he is about to win his long-deferred laurels. A new truth, it has been well said, has to encounter three normal stages of opposition...decried as useless, and hostile to religion. And when at length it is fully admitted, it passes only under a protest that it has been perfectly known for... | |
 | Richard James Morrison - 768 sider
...posterity. JW JACKSON. Edinburgh, August 4, 1855. VI. The Athenaeum and Phrenology. By RHADAMANTHCS. " A new truth has to encounter three normal stages of...as useless, and hostile to religion. And when it is finally admitted, it passes only under a protest that it has been perfectly known fot ages — a proceeding... | |
 | Herbert Mayo - 1849 - 164 sider
...new truth. But alas, the trials, which await it in that character! — what an ordeal is before it. A new truth has to encounter three normal stages of...as useless, and hostile to religion. And when it is finally admitted, it passes only under a protest that is has been perfectly known for ages — a proceeding... | |
 | 1850 - 474 sider
...into notice, it is cursorily examined and plausibly explained away. In the third, or ' cut linn.it' stage, it is decried as useless, and hostile to religion. And when it is finally admitted, it passes only under a protest that it has been perfectly known for ages — a proceeding... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1859 - 282 sider
...as an imposture; in the second—when it is beginning to force itself into notice—it is curiously examined and plausibly explained away; in the third, or cui bono stage, it is decried as useless. And when it is finally admitted, it passes only under a protest that it has been perfectly known for ages—a... | |
 | William Sheldon - 1862 - 214 sider
...as a charlatan ; he is about to win his long-deferred laurels. A new truth, it has been well said, has to encounter three normal stages of opposition...decried as useless, and hostile to religion. And when at length it is fully admitted, it passes only under a protest that it has been perfectly known for... | |
 | Durham Dunlop - 1868 - 502 sider
...an imposture; in the second — that is, when it isbeginning to force itself into notice — it is examined, and plausibly explained away; - in the third,...fully admitted, it passes only under a protest that it was perfectly known for ages — a proceeding intended to make the new truth ashamed of itself, and... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1869 - 304 sider
...plausibly explained away; in the third, or cui lono stage, it is decried as useless. And when it is finally admitted, it passes only under a protest that it has...ashamed of itself, and wish it had never been born. When Algernon Sydney was told that he might save his life by telling a falsehood — by denying his... | |
 | Durham Dunlop - 1873 - 494 sider
...second — that is, when it is beginning to force itself into notice — it is examined, and plau•ibly explained away; in the third, or cui bono stage, it...fully admitted, it passes only under a protest that it was perfectly known for ages — a proceeding intended to make the new truth ashamed of itself, and... | |
 | 1855 - 1102 sider
...first, it is denounced as;an imposture ; in the second — that is, when it is beginning to force it*eli into notice — it is cursorily examined, and plausibly...decried as useless, and hostile to religion. And when at length it is fully admitted, it passes only under a protest that it has been perfectly known for... | |
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A new truth has to encounter three normal stages of opposition. In the first, it is denounced as an imposture. In the second, that is, when it is beginning to force itself into notice, it is cursorily examined and plausibly explained away. In the third,... 