"Only if" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... there, that we are permitted to see. With so fragmentary a record as this to study, I do not think it is too much to say that no conclusions can be fairly based upon it, merely from the absence of testimony. Only if the testimony were positively opposed to the theory of descent, could any argument be fairly raised against that theory on the grounds of this testimony. In other words, if any of the fossils hitherto discovered prove the order of succession to have been incompatible with ...
— Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) • George John Romanes
... which is in the minds of the entire people, that the good of the country is paramount, I have adopted the firm resolution to accept the supreme power only if this be the will of our great people, who, by a plebiscite organized by their representatives in a Constituent Assembly, shall establish a form of government and new fundamental laws for ...
— Bolshevism - The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy • John Spargo
... asked that before you struck him in the face," replied the knight. "You are a man grown. Do as best pleases you. Only if you take the blow, ...
— Red Eve • H. Rider Haggard
... method can do and what it cannot do. Whether the method is sufficiently developed to secure full results to-day, or whether they will come to-morrow, is unimportant. It is clear that the success of to-morrow is to be hoped for, only if understanding and interest in the problem ...
— Psychology and Industrial Efficiency • Hugo Muensterberg
... survive. The barbarous state of society thus arises, and the division of labor brought about during its origin makes it possible and indeed essential for many family units to remain together for mutual good. The union is stable and efficient, however, only if the individual suppresses his own selfish inclinations, suspending private quarrels when public wars are toward, and acting at all times in concert with his fellows. Self-control increases necessarily, and lines of conduct deemed right by ...
— The Doctrine of Evolution - Its Basis and Its Scope • Henry Edward Crampton
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