Word: confound
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...holds that Science and experience have shown little with likelihood of surety, and nothing with certainty of it. Hence the Virgin Birth cannot be counted out on that score. Furthermore, all who deny the possibility of Virgin Birth forget that there is a class of happenings, or miracles, which confound and contradict the usual scientific occurrences, if the two groups are considered together, even as is the case when the corresponding human powers of reason and mysticism are mixed...
...countries and of studying the annals of past times is to preserve man from the contraction of mind which those can hardly escape whose whole communion is with one generation and one neighborhood, who arrive at conclusions by means of an induction not sufficiently copious, and who therefore constantly confound exceptions with rules and accidents with essential properties." . . . "The student, like the tourist, is transported into a new state of society. He sees new fashions. He hears new models of expression. His mind is enlarged by contemplating the wide diversities of laws, of morals, and of manners...
...BROTHERS KARAMAZOF and THE LADY FROM THE PROVINCES- Russian holds no further terrors. But the astonishing histrionic agility of the Muscovites does. It is in a sense a relief to feel that they have no further versatilities with which to confound...