corival

Updated: May 19, 2025

I may venture to prophecy that no future Beddoes will make it the corival of the mathematical sciences in demonstrative evidence. I think it a matter of doubt whether, during the period of its supposed infallibility, physiology derived more benefit from the extension, or injury from the misdirection, of its views.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life.