As an empiricist counterblast, written at a popular, non-technical level, the book is an impressive tour de force.
Less notice has been taken of the royalist counterblasts.
In the end, its argument comes down to polemic of the sort not all that far removed from the familiar conservative-versus-radical blasts and counterblasts of journalistic theatrical criticism.
But there is no very easy counterblast to it.
The federation was a counterblast to having a trade union in the force.
That has rather been the burden of the counterblast of our speeches to-day.
I said that it was desirable that the circular-letter should be distributed for other reasons than as a counterblast.
It is time for a counterblast.
