The appeal to common sense, then, is altogether retortable, and leaves the whole question in statu quo; both matter and mind resting on exactly equivalent evidence, be it sufficient or insufficient.
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Retortable
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No doubt all such attempts will be met, more or less, by the old watch-cries of materialism and pantheism; but we protest in the outset against any such charges, not only as hasty and ill-judged, but perfectly retortable.
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Oh wise and divine restraint, that curbeth the most universall and common error of men: Not onely the reproches, wee doe one to another, but our reasons, our arguments and matter controversed, are ordinarily retortable unto us: and wee pinch our selves up in our owne armes.
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But with contracts made for the retortable material which can be mined without difficulty, yet which it is in the collieries' interests not to permit to be mixed with the coal, a fair price can no doubt be arrived at.
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