Autobiography and EssaysKraus Reprint Company, 1919 - 276 pages |
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... directions . I read everything I could lay hands upon , including novels , and took up all sorts of pursuits to drop them again quite as speedily . No doubt it was very largely my own fault , but the only instruction from which I ever ...
... directions . I read everything I could lay hands upon , including novels , and took up all sorts of pursuits to drop them again quite as speedily . No doubt it was very largely my own fault , but the only instruction from which I ever ...
Page 84
... other ascertain these points ) , physiologists would have attained their ultimate goal in this direction ; they would have determined the relation of the motive force of animals to the other forms of 84 HUXLEY'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND ESSAYS.
... other ascertain these points ) , physiologists would have attained their ultimate goal in this direction ; they would have determined the relation of the motive force of animals to the other forms of 84 HUXLEY'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND ESSAYS.
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... direction ) is covered by a fine mud , which , when brought to the surface , dries into a grayish white friable substance . You can write with this on a blackboard , if you are so inclined ; and , to the eye , it is quite like very soft ...
... direction ) is covered by a fine mud , which , when brought to the surface , dries into a grayish white friable substance . You can write with this on a blackboard , if you are so inclined ; and , to the eye , it is quite like very soft ...
Page 135
... directions , showing how roughly the troublesome ages have trampled here ; the gray dome above , with its opening to the sky , as if heaven were look- ing down into the interior of this place of worship , left unimpeded for prayers to ...
... directions , showing how roughly the troublesome ages have trampled here ; the gray dome above , with its opening to the sky , as if heaven were look- ing down into the interior of this place of worship , left unimpeded for prayers to ...
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... direction of mathematics , and the accumulation of wealth in virtue of other natural knowledge . But the plague ? My Lord Brouncker's observation would not , I fear , lead him to think that Englishmen of the nineteenth century are purer ...
... direction of mathematics , and the accumulation of wealth in virtue of other natural knowledge . But the plague ? My Lord Brouncker's observation would not , I fear , lead him to think that Englishmen of the nineteenth century are purer ...
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Page 16 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work, that, as a mechanism, it is capable of...
Page 21 - The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. To the man who plays well, the highest stakes are paid, with that sort of overflowing generosity with which the strong shows delight in strength. And...
Page 187 - In other words, education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but men and their ways; and the fashioning of the affections and of the will into an earnest and loving desire to move in harmony with those laws. For me, education means neither more nor less than this.
Page 221 - An army without weapons of precision, and with no particular base of operations, might more hopefully enter upon a campaign on the Rhine, than a man, devoid of a knowledge of what physical science has done in the last century, upon a criticism of life.
Page 186 - Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of every one of us would, one day or other, depend upon his winning or losing a game of chess.
Page 21 - Yet it is a very plain and elementary truth that the life, the fortune, and the happiness of every one of us, and, more or less, of those who are connected with us, do depend upon our knowing something of the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than chess.
Page 169 - As when in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful, when all the winds are laid, And every height comes out, and jutting peak And valley, and the immeasurable heavens Break open to their highest, and all the stars Shine, and the Shepherd gladdens in his heart...
Page 220 - ... outfit a knowledge of Greek, Roman, and Eastern antiquity, and of one another. Special local and temporary advantages being put out of account, that modern nation will in the intellectual and spiritual sphere make most progress which most thoroughly carries out this programme.
Page 220 - Let us conceive of the whole group of civilised nations as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one great confederation, bound to a joint action and working towards a common result; a confederation whose members have a due knowledge both of the past, out of which they all proceed, and of one another. This was the ideal of Goethe, and it is an ideal which will impose itself upon the thoughts of our modern societies more and more.
Page 190 - ... whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of Nature and of the laws of her operations; one who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.