Christianity accounts for itself and its work on a certain plain, straightforward, and consistent theory.

Tactics were not so perfect as they afterwards became and of strategy there was no consistent theory.

You have the advantage of a tolerably consistent theory; whilst I have no theory at all, and am full of contradictions.

With regard again to fire as an agent in the mineral operations of this earth, geologists have formed no consistent theory.

The grand and consistent theory of Newton will be placed upon the same footing as the wild and eccentric hypotheses of Descartes.

Thus by the end of the sixteenth century, the Italian critics had formulated a logical and self- consistent theory of the purpose of poetry.

Darwin labored to work out a consistent theory that virtually restricted selection to struggles among organisms (see Chapter 2 for his interesting reasons).