Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses and Reviews, 2. köideD. Appleton, 1896 |
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Page 93 - Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power, Yet not for power (power of herself Would come uncalled for), but to live by law, Acting the law we live by without fear ; And, because right is right, to follow right Were -wisdom in. the scorn of consequence
Page 18 - of moral goodness laid down by Mr. Mozley is not the test of John, who says, ' He that doeth righteousness is righteous;' nor is it the test of Jesus: ' By their fruits ye shall know them : do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles ?' But it is the test of another:
Page 216 - iron, and the brass, and the silver, and the gold, were broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors, and the wind carried them away. Monsignor Capel has recently been good enough to proclaim at once the friendliness of his Church towards true science, and her right to determine what true science is. Let us dwell for
Page 160 - 1 Boyle's model of the universe was the Strasburg clock with an outside Artificer. Goethe, on the other hand, sang— ' Ihm ziemt's die Welt im Innern zu bewegen, Natur in sich, sich in Natur zu hegen.
Page 72 - wert there, 0 rival of the rose I I never thought to ask, I never knew, But in my simple ignorance supposed The self-same power that brought me there brought you. 1 A few exceptions to
Page 385 - Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone; And Morning opes with haste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids; O'er England's abbeys bends the sky As on its friends with kindred eye ; For out of Thought's interior sphere These wonders rose to upper air, And nature gladly gave them place, Adopted them into her race, And granted them an equal
Page 236 - all their electric discharges, if such there be; and were we intimately acquainted with the corresponding states of thought and feeling, we should be as far as ever from the solution of the problem, " How are these physical processes connected with the facts of consciousness ? " The chasm between the two classes of phenomena would still remain intellectually
Page 103 - To the open ear it sings The early genesis of things; Of tendency through endless ages Of star-dust and star-pilgrimages, Of rounded worlds, of space and time, Of the old floods' subsiding slime, Of chemic matter, force and form, Of poles and powers, cold, wet, and warm. The rushing metamorphosis Dissolving all that fixture is,
Page 190 - infant. Thus it happens that the European inherits from twenty to thirty cubic inches more of brain than the Papuan. Thus it happens that faculties, as of music, which scarcely exist in some inferior races, become congenital in superior ones. Thus it happens that out of savages unable to count up to the number of their
Page 250 - sees with a wonder superadded. To me, as to him, not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed like one of these. I have spoken above as if the assumption of a soul would save Mr. Martineau from the inconsistency of crediting pure matter with the astonishing building power displayed in crystals and