There is a wide generalisation about technology that we should establish before considering the individual areas.

This I proved to be the case; and I was further led to a rather wide generalisation, viz.

Nor were the effects of his break from Christian tradition confined to Christendom; Macaulay's world- wide generalisation is very true though very Macaulayese.

It should reach from our simplest everyday observations to wide generalisations of physical science; and should supply a background for the study of history.