Overbearing types

Usage examples of dogmatists.

For the Christian dogmatists were trying to establish a reign of holiness, and trying to get defined, first of all, what was really holy.

But my main point, at present, is to notice that the chief among these writers I have discussed do most sanely and courageously offer themselves as dogmatists, as founders of a system.

These torrents soon became a diluvial sea, in which the last dogmatists were drowned.

The self-sufficiency of egotistic natures was never more fully shown than in the expositions of the worthlessness and wretchedness of their fellowcreatures given by the dogmatists who have "gone back," as the vulgar phrase is, on their race, their own flesh and blood.

The best representatives of the type are Condorcet,[20] among the Girondins, and Robespierre, among the Montagnards, both mere dogmatists and pure logicians, the latter the most remarkable and with a perfection of intellectual sterility never surpassed.

The medical materialists are therefore only so many belated dogmatists, neatly turning the tables on their predecessors by using the criterion of origin in a destructive instead of an accreditive way.

Every one of our proofs has been deduced from the nature of the case, and no advantage has been taken of the wrong conclusions of dogmatists on either side.

Terrifying figures in stark black and white, these nuns were dogmatists first and foremost, and modern dogmatists at that.