"Succinctness" Quotes from Famous Books
... be formed of the correctness of the writer's views, it is necessary to take to pieces this skilful fabric, and to bring the parts together in a different connection and with greater succinctness, following out each doctrine to its inevitable, but most remote, conclusions, so as to obtain a just idea of the position in which we should be placed by the acceptance of the theory as a whole. For obvious reasons, the author has not chosen to ... — A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' • Francis Bowen |