Word: axioms
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...trapper, in the Western wilds of this country sets his trap in the vicinity of some well known feeding-ground and relies upon the axiom, that "Nature abhors a vacuum," to secure him a breakfast...
Concerning the effect of the system upon the instructor, there can be no question. Dr. A. Potter, in his able book on Reading, says: "It is nearly an axiom that people will not be better than the books they read." Not better than the books they read? Great Heavens! Do you not tremble for our instructors? Are they to descend at last to the level of the blue book? Are they to be no better than that "wretched heap and hotch-potch of words and ideas"? Alas! what a horrible destiny! But ought they not to be rescued? Ought...