"Line of reasoning" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in his mind a line of reasoning which would appear to grow with some degree of naturalness out of what had gone before, harmonizing the basic continuity of the Post's attitude, and minimizing the change in present angle or point of view. His fertile mind played about it, strengthening ...
— Queed • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... socialists in pursuing this line of reasoning is obvious. It is to demonstrate, or rather to suggest, that "the monopolists of business ability," in spite of their comparative rarity and the importance of the services performed by them, are far from being so rare or so superior to the ...
— A Critical Examination of Socialism • William Hurrell Mallock
... the evolution of the race. Hence revelation might be salutary or even necessary for certain times and places without being essential at all times or, for that matter, a permanent guarantee of the truth of religion. There is nothing here which is new or original with Kant. This line of reasoning was one by which men since Lessing had helped themselves over certain difficulties. It is cited only to show how Kant, too, failed to transcend his age in some matters, although he so splendidly transcended ...
— Edward Caldwell Moore - Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant • Edward Moore
... line of reasoning it took Peter Bines no long time to conclude that he ought now to enjoy as a luxury what he had once been constrained ...
— The Spenders - A Tale of the Third Generation • Harry Leon Wilson
... the nerves of the cervical lymphatics had caused contraction near head, and produced congestion of the lymphatics, of the pneumogastric, and cutting off nerves supply from lungs. Believing this to be very likely I concluded to act on the above line of reasoning and see if I could give some relief. I did not stop to debate why the wax was hard and dry, but how to soften the wax, was the question of interest to me then. So I proceeded. I reasoned that soap and water would be the best treatment to clean the ears, and soften ...
— Philosophy of Osteopathy • Andrew T. Still
... spite of long association with Malcolm Sage, there were still times when he failed to follow his chief's line of reasoning. ...
— Malcolm Sage, Detective • Herbert George Jenkins
... The same line of reasoning naturally was applied to the existence of "spirit" in man, and it was argued that mental activity, the domain of the "spirit," was dependent on bodily organisation. "When the babe is born it shows no sign of mind. For a brief space hunger and repletion, cold and warmth are its ...
— Annie Besant - An Autobiography • Annie Besant
... sur les Corps organises, chap. x.] "Evolution" and "development" are, for Bonnet, synonymous terms; and since by "evolution" he means simply the expansion of that which was invisible into visibility, he was naturally led to the conclusion, at which Leibnitz had arrived by a different line of reasoning, that no such thing as generation, in the proper sense of the word, exists in Nature. The growth of an organic being is simply a process of enlargement as a particle of dry gelatine may be swelled up by the intussusception of water; its death is a shrinkage, ...
— Darwiniana • Thomas Henry Huxley |
