continenter

Updated: May 4, 2025

At, secundum nos, axiomata continenter et gradatim excitantur, ut non, nisi postremo loco, ad maxime generalia veniatur." Can any words more exactly describe the political reasonings of Mr Mill than those in which Lord Bacon thus describes the logomachies of the schoolmen?

Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2