micrology

• We may apply the term fantastically virtuous to the man who will admit nothing to be indifferent in respect of morality (adiaphora), and who strews all his steps with duties, as with traps, and will not allow it to be indifferent whether a man eats fish or flesh, drink beer or wine, when both agree with him; a micrology which, if adopted into the doctrine of virtue, would make its rule a tyranny REMARK INTRODUCTION ^paragraph 210 Virtue is always in progress, and yet always begins from the beginning. —  The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics
• Nothing that George liked better than botany, metaphysics, and micrology. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863
• In appearance, this marvel of micrology, so far as the eye-piece and upper portions went, was like an ordinary microscope, but its magnifying power was to me unbelievable. —  The Crack of Doom
• (adiaphora), and who strews all his steps with duties, as with traps, and will not allow it to be indifferent whether a man eats fish or flesh, drink beer or wine, when both agree with him; a micrology which, if adopted into the doctrine of virtue, would make its rule a tyranny. —  The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics

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