 | Jon Lebkowsky, Mitch Ratcliffe - Social Science - 2005 - 373 pages
...inaccurate by the inaccuracy of the terms in which it is delivered. And this unavoidable inaccuracy must be greater or less, according to the complexity and...the cloudy medium through which it is communicated. 192 Lacking a universal language, we are forced to spend time educating participants before the substance... | |
 | Patrick Deneen - Political Science - 2009 - 389 pages
...inaccurate by the inaccuracy of the terms in which it is delivered. And this unavoidable inaccuracy must be greater or less, according to the complexity and...doubtful by the cloudy medium through which it is communicated.7 Divine revelation itself — the very definition of Truth by some estimations — is... | |
 | Robert M. Burns - Historiography - 2006 - 466 pages
...on the elusiveness of language. In one of the wittiest passages in the Federalist Papers, he wrote, "When the Almighty himself condescends to address...doubtful by the cloudy medium through which it is communicated."2 If these wry reflections about our ability to render intelligible the meaning of others... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 2005 - 630 pages
...Almighty himfelf condefcends to addrefs mankind in their own language, his meaning luminous аз it muft be, is rendered dim and doubtful, by the cloudy medium...through which it is communicated. Here then are three fources of vague and incorreél definitions ; indifiinftnefs of the object, imperfection of the organ... | |
 | John P. Kaminski - Constitutional history - 2006 - 118 pages
...every complex idea, or so correct as not to include many equivocally denoting different ideas." Even "When the Almighty himself condescends to address...the cloudy medium through which it is communicated." teenth century, and finally of opposing states rightists during the last decade and a half of his life.... | |
 | Walter F. Murphy - Law - 2007 - 588 pages
...more prolix: [N]o language is so copious as to supply words and phrases for every complex idea. . . . When the Almighty himself condescends to address mankind...doubtful by the cloudy medium through which it is communicated."17 The sources of confusion, he explained, were the complexity of political relations,... | |
 | Martin Brückner - History - 2006 - 294 pages
...new Republic's constitutional process was inherently threatened because its foundational document was "rendered dim and doubtful by the cloudy medium through which it is communicated." Similarly, those who opposed the idea of federal union feared that the Constitution's "dim" words ("Who... | |
 | James Brian Staab - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 416 pages
...inaccurate by the inaccuracy of the terms in which it was delivered. And this unavoidable inaccuracy must be greater or less, according to the complexity and novelty of the objects defined.46 These are not the words of a formalist. In referring to the difficulties that the delegates... | |
 | John J. DiIulio - Religion - 2007 - 328 pages
...more likely to always hear and obediently heed God, than any other people, past, present, or future: "When the Almighty himself condescends to address...the cloudy medium through which it is communicated." 24 Only "theoretic politicians" could ignore the civic lesson implied by this spiritual reality, namely,... | |
 | Vincent Ostrom - Political Science - 2008 - 320 pages
...increase with the complexity and novelty of the events being considered. Madison continues to argue that "when the Almighty himself condescends to address...the cloudy medium through which it is communicated" (Federalist 37, par. 11). From this, one must infer that even the word of God, when communicated through... | |
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... the definition of them may be rendered inaccurate, by the inaccuracy of the terms in which it is delivered. And this unavoidable inaccuracy must be greater or less, according to the complexity and novelty of the objects defined. 
