'NOW, what I want is,
Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but
Facts.
But the thought is always prior to the
fact; all the
facts of history preexist in the mind as laws.
The legislature of the United States would certainly have full power to provide, that in appeals to the Supreme Court there should be no re-examination of
facts where they had been tried in the original causes by juries.
The scientist reasons inductively from the
facts of experience.
'Beagle,' as naturalist, I was much struck with certain
facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent.
If we confine ourselves to
facts which have been actually observed, we must say that past occurrences, in addition to the present stimulus and the present ascertainable condition of the organism, enter into the causation of the response.
What is to be done with the millions of
facts that bear witness that men, consciously, that is fully understanding their real interests, have left them in the background and have rushed headlong on another path, to meet peril and danger, compelled to this course by nobody and by nothing, but, as it were, simply disliking the beaten track, and have obstinately, wilfully, struck out another difficult, absurd way, seeking it almost in the darkness.
He even succeeded in ranging his wife on his side on this question, though he found the feat very difficult to accomplish, because unnatural; but the general's arguments were conclusive, and founded upon obvious
facts. The general considered that the girls' taste and good sense should be allowed to develop and mature deliberately, and that the parents' duty should merely be to keep watch, in order that no strange or undesirable choice be made; but that the selection once effected, both father and mother were bound from that moment to enter heart and soul into the cause, and to see that the matter progressed without hindrance until the altar should be happily reached.
Talk in general centered round three melancholy
facts: the Emperor's lack of news, the loss of Kutuzov, and the death of Helene.
The disappointment was made all the more severe by reason of the
fact that my place of work was where I could see the happy children passing to and from school mornings and afternoons.
As a matter of
fact, and in the process of time, I did read somewhat of all these, but rather in the minor than the major way; and I soon went off from them to the study of the modern poets, novelists, and playwrights who interested me so much more.
He seemed to smell the scent of orange-blossoms, to hear the joyous pealing of church bells--in
fact, with the difference that it was not his own wedding that he was anticipating, he had begun to take very much the same view of the future that was about to come to Dudley Pickering.