Word: soundest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hand-book of definitions. The subject is treated in a strictly systematic way, the method being first to give a definition, then a brief elaboration, and lastly a simple illustration. The author lays no claim to originality, but aims merely to give an intelligible summary of the latest and soundest psychological the ories. While claiming to follow no school he takes a middle conservative ground between the intuitionists and extreme empiricists. As a text book it is far superior to the ones now in general use, in cleanness, arrangement and general comprehensiveness, and its value will undoubtedly be recognized...
...time ago we laid to rest a leader in science who declared himself to be at the same time an evolutionist, a theist and a believer in the Nicene creed. Gray was like Darwin in respect to the religious use which he made of evolution. The judgment of our soundest minds is that theism is to suffer at the hands of evolution, not destruction, but reconstruction. Darwin admitted that no one understood the philosophy of evolution better than the late great botanist. Gray had stronger grasp on philosophy than Darwin. Gray was gifted with a clearer insight into the laws...