Tracing Quotes
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My principal work now lies in tracing out the exact nature and conditions of utility. It seems strange indeed that economists have not bestowed more minute attention on a subject which doubtless furnishes the true key to the problems of economics.
william stanley jevons— Chapter III, Theory of Utility, p. 65
The study of Constitutional History is essentially a tracing of causes and consequences; the examination of a distinct growth from a well-defined germ to full maturity: a growth, the particular shaping and direction of which are due to a diversity of causes, but whose life and developing power lies deep in the very nature of the people. It is not then the collection of a multitude of facts and views, but the piecing of the links of a perfect chain.
william stubbs— Select Charters and Other Illustrations of English Constitutional History (1870; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913) p. xv.
Reading a text is more like tracing this process of constant flickering than it is like counting the beads on a necklace.
terry eagleton— Chapter 4, p. 111
A rare book at once of great importance and wonderful to read.… Gould presents a fascinating historical study of scientific racism, tracing it through monogeny and polygeny, phrenology , recapitulation, and hereditarian IQ theory. He stops at each point to illustrate both the logical inconsistencies of the theories and the prejudicially motivated, albeit unintentional, misuse of data in each case.… A major addition to the scientific literature.
stephen jay gould— Attributed to Saturday Review, London
Where you find imagination tracing the outlines and reason filling in the details, there you have a man.
henry s. haskins— p. 118 (Meditations in Wall Street (1940))
Dialectical logic is loyal to the contradictions, not by the reasoning of “on the one hand and the other” but by tracing the contradictions to their fractured source.
— Russell Jacoby, Social Amnesia (1975), p. 60
If the child sees its mother distressed, it never thinks of tracing the distress back to God as the cause, or that there might be an ambiguity of distress and accordingly that the distress might come from God for the very purpose of drawing the person to God. The child, however, immediately thinks of evil people.
— Søren Kierkegaard, in Four Upbuilding Discourses (1844), One Who Prays Aright Struggles in Prayer and Is Victorious — in That God Is Victorious
A game of cricket is at work from the first ball to the last in shaping an outline or design for itself. Sometimes the design degenerates into dullness and incompetence, but design there always is, and there is an interest even in the tracing of the course and impulse of its failures.
dudley carew— To the Wicket (1946)
