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The masters of science explore a multitude of phenomena to ascertain a single cause; the statesman and legislator, engaged in pursuits "hardliest reduced to axiom," examine a multitude of causes to explain a solitary phenomenon.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 Various

This, which is the hardliest reduced to axiom of any, is that which lies collected on the Inductive Tables here, cleared of all that interferes with the result; and the axiom of practice, which is the 'second vintage' of the New Machine, is expressed before our eyes.

The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835

'Civil knowledge is conversant about a subject,' he says, 'which is, of all others, _most immersed in matter_, and hardliest reduced to axiom.

The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835

Of all the sciences, Policy is the most immersed in matter, and the hardliest reduced to axiom '; but setting out from that which is constant and universal in nature, this philosopher is not afraid to undertake it; and, indeed, that is what he is bent on; for unless those universal, historical principles, which he has taken so much pains to exhibit to us clearly in their abstract form,' terminate in

The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835