"Correlation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the question as to whether the metaphysical system of teleology is really destitute of all rational support. Pleading of a supposed Theist in support of the system. The principle of correlation of general laws. The ...
— A Candid Examination of Theism • George John Romanes
... allow me to say so, that the gravest consequences are likely to flow from your estimate of the body. To regard the brain as you would a staff or an eyeglass—to shut your eyes to all its mystery, to the perfect correlation of its condition and our consciousness, to the fact that a slight excess or defect of blood in it produces the very swoon to which you refer, and that in relation to it our meat, and drink, and air, and exercise, have a perfectly transcendental value and significance—to forget ...
— Fragments of science, V. 1-2 • John Tyndall
... of these tendencies, all the known facts of the history of plants and of animals may be brought into rational correlation. And this is more than can be said for any other hypothesis that I know of. Such hypotheses, for example, as that of the existence of a primitive, orderless chaos; of a passive and sluggish eternal matter moulded, with but partial success, by archetypal ideas; ...
— Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays • Thomas H. Huxley
... were all included under one head—the correlation of sciences and their coincidence into one point. Let us take them one by one. We have only time to glance very ...
— Dawn of All • Robert Hugh Benson
... those at the base of the Gondwanas were contemporaneous, and partly due to analogy with the coal measures of Australia and South Africa. In Kashmir the characteristic plant remains of the Lower Gondwanas are found associated with marine fossils in great abundance, and these permit of a correlation of the strata with the upper part of the Carboniferous system of the European ...
— The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir • Sir James McCrone Douie
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