To take an extreme case, it would, as Jane Harrison observes, be a monstrosity, when our friend was drowning, to note with lingering appreciation the fluent white curve of his arm in the glimmering waters of the late afternoon.
There is no question but that there are other abilities, which under our present customs and ideals we reward possibly beyond their merit, as, to take an extreme case, that of a championship prize fighter.
Surely no one would say this in an extreme case, such as that of the poison.
But if the rule does not hold for an extreme case, where can we draw the line?
Still, if we take an extreme case, where the sacrifice is very disproportionate to the gain, many conscientious persons would think that the promise ought rather to be broken than kept.
Let us take an extreme case, which is yet quite within the limits of experience.
To assume that no such cause can exist, appears to me an extreme case of assumption without evidence.
It is even possible to conceive an extreme case, in which the whole of the advantage resulting from the interchange would be reaped by one party, the other country gaining nothing at all.
And I thought there couldn't be so many hares as tortoises on the Line: so I took an extreme case--one hare and an infinite number of tortoises.
Our excellent preceptress always says 'When in doubt, my dears, take an extreme case.
Montalembert is an extreme case of a French historian who adopted thoroughly unsound historical methods.
In the resemblance of identical twins we have an extreme case of hereditary likeness[4] and a proof, if any were needed, that the cause of individual variation is to be sought in the differentiation of germ-cells.
No one doubts that incompatibility may arise from a variety of causes of most diverse degrees of importance, but though sometimes referred to as anextreme case of interspecific sterility, it is really a very different matter.
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