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  • He read Higher Superstition's catalogue of humanistic incomprehension of science with alarm and nausea, increasingly convinced of his own incompetence in the history of dinosaurology.

    The Romantic Education of W.J.T. Mitchell 1997

  • He read Higher Superstition's catalogue of humanistic incomprehension of science with alarm and nausea, increasingly convinced of his own incompetence in the history of dinosaurology.

    The Last Formalist, or W.J.T. Mitchell as Romantic Dinosaur 1997

  • And although his fight against Superstition's views of life is conducted with a keenness that scouts discussion, whereas in modern Philosophy the contention is merely implied, it seemed as though his thoughts travelled along less stormy paths.

    Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth Brandes, George, 1842-1927 1906

  • It is a note of Warton's period that, though Fancy and the Muse survey the ruins of the abbey with pensive regret, "severer Reason" -- the real eighteenth-century divinity -- "scans the scene with philosophic ken," and -- being a Protestant -- reflects that, after all, the monastic houses were "Superstition's shrine" and their demolition was a good thing for

    A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

  • And although his fight against Superstition's views of life is conducted with a keenness that scouts discussion, whereas in modern Philosophy the contention is merely implied, it seemed as though his thoughts travelled along less stormy paths.

    Recollections of My Childhood and Youth Georg Morris Cohen Brandes 1884

  • Superstition's gamut as Winifred's might easily accept as the wail of

    Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

  • Good God! Is there no other ancestral tomfoolery, no other of Superstition's patent Aylwinian soul-salves for the philosophical Nature-worshipper and apostle of rationalism to fly to?

    Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

  • Conscience had mingled in Superstition's game, and had imbued her with the idea that she had only half a soul -- that her child had taken the other half away with him down to the bottom of the sea.

    The Sand-Hills of Jutland 1840

  • Superstition's prominence in such societies may reflect the need to rely on cheaper substitutes for such institutions, substitutes such as beliefs in curses, afterlives, and iudicium Dei.

    Boston.com Top Stories 2010

  • The new ownership entity will utilize Superstition's recently adopted membership plans for daily fees on one golf course, while the second course will remain exclusive for current and new members.

    Los Angeles Business News - Local Los Angeles News | Los Angeles Business from bizjournals 2009

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