Mr. Carruthers adds a caution however, which can find its application in other instances as well: While making this admission in relation to the vegetation of these older rocks, I must protest against the practice of completing the record of life forms, by filling in particular groups without any authority except the writer's impression of an adopted hypothesis, and then Basing arguments on these assumptions in support of the hypothesis which created them.
"The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer"
John Gerard
Basing their judgment on that premise, they passed on with an uncomplicated directness to the conclusion that the deleterious things said of him by envenomed orators were assertions of gospel truth.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
I should advise them to be even less hasty in Basing it upon the assumption that to secure a powerful literary backing is a matter within the compass of any one who chooses to undertake it.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler