And yet again, if he did, may we, with all reverence for Lamb's exquisite genius, have permission to say-that his own constitution of intellect sinned by this very habit of discontinuity.
"Biographical Essays"
Thomas de Quincey
We must have a continuity in discontinuity, and a discontinuity in continuity; that is to say, we can only conceive the help of change at all by the help of flat contradiction in terms.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
Evolution is but the expression of this law of continuity, this succession of phenomena following one another like the links of a chain, without discontinuity through the vast extent of time and space.
"The Mechanism of Life"
Stéphane Leduc