All this seems tautological, vainly repetitive; but, then, repetitions are really necessary to make an impression on some people-on yourself, as a matter of detail."
"Her Mother's Secret"
Emma D. E. N. Southworth
Nobody that I remember criticised the tautological expression, "The progress of this army must be forward."
"The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915"
Basil L. Gildersleeve
Therefore they give to the world the wholly vacuous, or merely tautological theory of causation-viz.
"Thoughts on Religion"
George John Romanes