Sentence:  Indeed in all cases in which from propositions of considerable generality, propositions of a still higher degree are obtained, there is a convergence of inductions; and if in one of the lines which thus converge, the steps be rapidly and suddenly made in order to meet the other line, we may consider that we have an example of <WSD>Consilience</WSD>. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The concurrence of multiple inductions drawn from different data sets. (from 1840)