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Machiavelianism followed the fall of the Catholic faith." ... "Into the void left by religion came spiritual charlatanry and physical superstition, such as the arts of the hierophant of Isis, the soothsayer, the astrologer significant precursors of our modern mediums." ... "Conscience as a mere evolution of tribal experience may have importance, but it can have no authority, and 'Nature' is an unmeaning word without an Author of nature or rather it is a philosophic name for God." ... "Evolution is not moral, nor can morality be educed from it.
Every educated military man will be impressed by the truths educed, and will be convinced that the excellence of maneuvers will depend upon their conforming to the principle already insisted upon; that is to say, the great part of the force must be moved against one wing or the center, according to the position of the enemy's masses.
And indeed nothing is more amazing or disconcerting than the mutually exclusive notions, the apparently opposing truths, which can be educed by this method, from one and the same passage of Scripture! There is scarcely a chapter in all the Old Testament, and to a less degree in the New Testament, which may not be thus ingeniously transmogrified to meet almost any homiletical emergency.
In a mask of immobility, full-colored and closely shaven, his lips were thin and tight, his eyes steady, grey and shallow: a countenance neither dishonest nor repellent, but one inscrutable. Standing solidly, once halted, there remained a suggestion of alertness in the fellow's pose. "Doggott, what the deuce brings you here? And Mr. Rutton?" Amber's cordiality educed no response.
Hostile theories correct each other. The scattered elements of truth cease to contend, and begin to coalesce. And at length a system of justice and order is educed out of the chaos. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
In some orders climbing is the rule, in most it is the exception, occurring only in certain genera. The tendency of stems to move in circuits upon which climbing more commonly depends, and out of which it is conceived to have been educed is manifested incipiently by many a plant which does not climb.
I like these strange, sweet, playful, rustic creatures, . . . . linked so prettily, without monstrosity, to the lower tribes. . . . Their character has never, that I know of, been wrought out in literature; and something quite good, funny, and philosophical, as well as poetic, might very likely be educed from them. . . . The faun is a natural and delightful link betwixt human and brute life, with something of a divine character intermingled.
I shall go, and you can do as you will, blunder on," scornfully, "with your nitroglycerin, your rags, and drills and and rouse the entire countryside, if you will." "Ah, but " "Will you accept my aid?" "On conditions, only," she stipulated. "Halvers?" He shook his head. "Half shares, or not at all!" She was firm. "A partnership?" This educed a moue of doubt, with: "I'm not worthy the honor."
There is more of the essence of poetry in a single couplet of Pope's: "See how the world its veterans rewards A youth of frolics, an old age of cards." For here the expression is faultless, and Pope has educed an eternally pathetic truth, of universal application.
In Westminster Hall he is still mentioned with respect as the man who first educed out of the chaos anciently called by the name of equity a new system of jurisprudence, as regular and complete as that which is administered by the judges of the Common Law.
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