sciolism
Example Sentences
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This is a point on which the ancients, I am aware, in their light-hearted sciolism laid great stress.
From A Modern Symposium by G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes) Dickinson
The pages of this periodical form an invaluable storehouse to the philosophic naturalist, who wishes to pursue his science undeterred by the ridicule of sciolism or the frown of authority.
From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Philip Henry Gosse
"Positive philosophy," with complacent sciolism, may still coldly asseverate that the world is a dead congeries of "laws," into whose realm man is cast to take pot-luck in the universe; but we shall know better.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various
Of all these cobwebs spun by the spiders of sciolism, the Euhemeristic or Spencerian view—that Gladstone is an historical personage—has attracted most attention.
From In the Wrong Paradise by Andrew Lang
Few things are as distressing as the sciolism of a second-rate English editor of a classic.
From An American at Oxford by John Corbin
