sciolism

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

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

"Positive philosophy," with complacent sciolism, may still coldly asseverate that the world is a dead congeries of "laws," into whose realm man is cast to take pot-luck in the universe; but we shall know better.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various

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

From Phaedrus by Jowett, Benjamin

Sometimes, without a moment's warning, he would utter a paradox which from any one else might have seemed the mere recklessness of sciolism, but which, coming from him, was treasured in the memory.

From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron

The marvelous restoration of its prosperity by the genius of Colbert, the ruin caused by the malign sciolism of Law, are familiar to all students of political economy.

From Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII by Stevens, John Austin