That at least legitimates its noise by its useful activity.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse
Hence Orthodoxy legitimates persecution.
"Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors"
James Freeman Clarke
The physicist legitimates this operation later on by reducing, as far as possible, differences of quality to differences of magnitude; but, prior to all science, I incline to liken qualities to quantities, as if I perceived behind the qualities, as through a transparency, a geometrical mechanism.
"Creative Evolution"
Henri Bergson