The Culture Demanded by Modern Life: A Series of Addresses and Arguments on the Claims of Scientific EducationD. Appleton, 1886 - 473 pages |
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abstract acquired acquisition action ancient animals applied Aristotle attainment become body botany brain called cation character classical conceptions course cultivated culture deductive reasoning degree depends Descartes discovery duty Economic Science educa exercise existence experience facts faculties force give Greece Greek habits HERBERT SPENCER human ical ideas ignorance important improvement inductive industry inquiry instruction intel intellectual judgment jurisprudence kind knowledge labour language laws learned lectures less lobster logic mathematics matter means Mechanical Philosophy ment mental discipline method mind modern muscles natural history natural science notion objects observation organic Phaëton phenomena philosophy physical science physiology Plato practical present principles produce progress quackery question reason regard relations scholasticism schools scientific sense society Socrates student suppose surely table-turners taught teaching things thought tion true truth universe words zoology