For sometime they co-operated readily and cheerfully in the process of Eduction; knowing it their business to 'strike,' they did their best to do so, laying on effects sometimes a little over lurid.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
The most superficial reader will hardly require a commentary on this very remarkable passage; he must instantly perceive how Leibnitz, in the seventeenth century, foresaw what has occurred in the eighteenth; and the prediction has been verified in the history of the actors in the late revolution, while the result, which we have not perhaps yet had, according to Leibnitz's own exhilarating system of optimism, is an Eduction of good from evil.
"Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3)"
Isaac Disraeli
And yet it is not undelightful to contemplate the Eduction of good from evil.
"Literary Remains, Vol. 2"
Coleridge