The prosecution of such inquiries is beginning to make unnecessary much ingenious speculation of a kind that was prominent from r880 to 'goo; much futile effort has been wasted in the endeavour to find on Darwinian principles special " selection-values " for phenomena the universality of which places them outside the possibility of having relations with the particular conditions of particular organisms. On the other hand, many of those who have been specially successful in grouping diverse phenomena under empirical generalizations have erred logically in posing their generalizations against such a vera causa as the preservation of favoured individuals and races. [Please select]
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I erred in breaking the whip. [Please select]
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"Yes, sire; but perhaps they erred from abundance of zeal." [Please select]
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"It is true he has erred gravely," he said. [Please select]
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Hamilton erred by our highest standard, but not when judged by the circumstances that surrounded him. [Please select]
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If I have done wrong, it was because I erred in judgment. [Please select]
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But in this he erred, for it was turned against him. [Please select]
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But Mbonga, sure as he thought himself, erred in his calculations. [Please select]
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In both of these I erred, and now crave a pardon. [Please select]
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While some erred in exhibiting nothing but the brutalities of war, others erred by sentimentalising war. [Please select]
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Sully has erred, if at all, in making him more intelligible than he actually is. [Please select]
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