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1 But to understand phenomena man has, besides abstract reasoning, experience by which he verifies his reflections.
War and Peace 6By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 17: CHAPTER V
2 In regard to this question, history stands to the other sciences as experimental science stands to abstract science.
War and Peace 6By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 17: CHAPTER IX
3 Nicholas glanced at her and, wishing to appear not to notice her abstraction, made some remark to Mademoiselle Bourienne and then again looked at the princess.
War and Peace 6By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 16: CHAPTER VI
4 She attributed immense importance to all her husband's intellectual and abstract interests though she did not understand them, and she always dreaded being a hindrance to him in such matters.
War and Peace 6By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XI
5 Met by this difficulty historians of that class devise some most obscure, impalpable, and general abstraction which can cover all conceivable occurrences, and declare this abstraction to be the aim of humanity's movement.
War and Peace 6By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 17: CHAPTER IV
6 If the realm of human knowledge were confined to abstract reasoning, then having subjected to criticism the explanation of "power" that juridical science gives us, humanity would conclude that power is merely a word and has no real existence.
War and Peace 6By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 17: CHAPTER V
7 Postulating some generalization as the goal of the movement of humanity, the historians study the men of whom the greatest number of monuments have remained: kings, ministers, generals, authors, reformers, popes, and journalists, to the extent to which in their opinion these persons have promoted or hindered that abstraction.
War and Peace 6By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 17: CHAPTER IV