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handwriting some persons are well content if they get a dot in somewhere within measurable distance of its i. The dot is generally over the right word at any rate, and the comma is seldom more than one word off its true place.
All true science begins with empiricism—though all true science is such exactly, in so far as it strives to pass out of the empirical stage.–Huxley.
Exactly qualifies and belongs to in so far, &c., not such. The comma should be before it.
This, they for the most part, throw away as worthless.–Corelli.
For the most part, alone, is the adverbial parenthesis.
But this fault occurs, perhaps nine times out of ten, in combination with the that-clause comma so often mentioned. It may be said, when our instances have been looked into, that in each of them, apart from the that-clause comma, which is recognized by many authorities, there is merely the licence that we have ourselves allowed, omission of the first, without omission of the last, comma of an adverbial parenthesis. But we must point out that Huxley, Green, and Mr. Balfour, man of science, historian, and philosopher, all belong to that dignified class of writers which is supposed to, and in most respects does, insist on full logical stopping; they, in view of their general practice, are not entitled to our slovenly and merely literary licences.
And the second is, that for the purpose of attaining culture, an exclusively scientific education is at least as effectual as...–Huxley.
But the full discussion which followed over the various claims showed, that while exacting to the full what he believed to be his right, Edward desired to do justice to the country.–J. R. Green.
The one difference between these gilds in country and town was, that in the latter case, from their close local neiglbourhood, they tended to coalesce.–J. R. Green.
It follows directly from this definition, that however restricted the range of possible knowledge may be, philosophy can never be excluded from it.–Balfour.
But the difficulty here, as it seems to me, is, that if you start from your idea of evolution, these assumptions are...–Balfour.