11 How. St. Tr. 1243.
Trial of Sir Edward Hales (1686)
“Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.”
"Civilization," London and Westminster Review (April 1836)
Context: We are not so absurd as to propose that the teacher should not set forth his own opinions as the true ones and exert his utmost powers to exhibit their truth in the strongest light. To abstain from this would be to nourish the worst intellectual habit of all, that of not finding, and not looking for, certainty in any teacher. But the teacher himself should not be held to any creed; nor should the question be whether his own opinions are the true ones, but whether he is well instructed in those of other people, and, in enforcing his own, states the arguments for all conflicting opinions fairly.
“I now propose briefly to… set forth”
Source: 1860s, Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863), Ch.2, p. 74
Context: I now propose briefly to... set forth, in a form intelligible to those who possess no special acquaintance with anatomical science, the chief facts upon which all conclusions respecting the nature and the extent of the bonds which connect man with the brute world must be based: I shall then indicate the one immediate conclusion which, in my judgment, is justified by those facts, and I shall finally discuss the bearing of that conclusion upon the hypotheses which have been entertained respecting the Origin of Man.
Preface, p. 21, sentence 7.
The Christian Agnostic (1965)
“The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.”
The Girl Who Gets Flogged, fragment 422.
“Nature is full of infinite causes which were never set forth in experience.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), I Philosophy
Variant: Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.
Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615)
Context: The passage of time has revealed to everyone the truths that I previously set forth; and, together with the truth of the facts, there has come to light the great difference in attitude between those who simply and dispassionately refused to admit the discoveries to be true, and those who combined with their incredulity some reckless passion of their own. Men who were well grounded in astronomical and physical science were persuaded as soon as they received my first message. There were others who denied them or remained in doubt only because of their novel and unexpected character, and because they had not yet had the opportunity to see for themselves. These men have by degrees come to be satisfied. But some, besides allegiance to their original error, possess I know not what fanciful interest in remaining hostile not so much toward the things in question as toward their discoverer. No longer being able to deny them, these men now take refuge in obstinate silence, but being more than ever exasperated by that which has pacified and quieted other men, they divert their thoughts to other fancies and seek new ways to damage me.<!-- ¶4
Averroës, Charles Edwin Butterworth (1977) Averroës' Three Short Commentaries on Aristotle's "Topics,". p. 92
As quoted in World Unity, Vol. IX, 3rd edition (1931), p. 190
1930s
