duced from observations of the rate at which a pendulum of known length vibrates.
And she deduced the essentials of his wishes quite correctly, and having once arrived at them clung to them tenaciously.
Utilizing the best of his detective training, he deduced she was as deaf as a turnip.
In the former the author sets forth the analytical process by which the laws he discovered were deduced from facts.
From a fresh discussion of the transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769 he deduced (1822-1824) a solar parallax of 8" 57, long accepted as authoritative.
It is interesting to observe that though deduced exclusively from the study of flowering plants, they are in substantial agreement with those now generally adopted by zoologists, and may therefore be presumed to be on the whole natural.
Applying this principle to the art of poetry, and analysing, line by line and even word by word, the works of great poets, he deduced the law that the beauty of poetry consists in the accuracy, beauty and harmony of individual expression.
This was no new idea; it had been fami:iar for centuries in a less definite form, deduced from a priori considerations, and so far as regards the influence of surrounding circumstances upon man, Kant had already given it full expression.