| Porter criticizes especially the unhistoric, absolutistic and positivistic tendencies of the Enlightenment and he tends to be polemic in this context. |
| Be that as it may, the Reservation, as relates to present civilization, is unproductive, unhistoric ground. |
| There are however no characters for higher mathematics or logic, and the number of other unhistoric characters has also been kept to a practical minimum. |
| But it was only in Colombo that he began to see the importance of those unhistoric acts of George Eliot's to his work both past and present. |
