sciolism

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Of all these cobwebs spun by the spiders of sciolism, the Euhemeristic or Spencerian view—that Gladstone is an historical personage—has attracted most attention. 

From In the Wrong Paradise by Lang, Andrew

Few things are as distressing as the sciolism of a second-rate English editor of a classic.

From An American at Oxford by Corbin, John

The pages of this periodical form an invaluable storehouse to the philosophic naturalist, who wishes to pursue his science undeterred by the ridicule of sciolism or the frown of authority.

From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Gosse, Philip Henry

This is scholarship; the secondary information that has been popular is sciolism.

From Education: How Old The New by Walsh, James J.

Such an age of sciolism and scholasticism may possibly once more get the better of the literary world.

From Phaedrus by Jowett, Benjamin