Autobiography and EssaysKraus Reprint Company, 1919 - 276 pages |
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Page 13
... when it did not — which was a very frequent case I was extremely idle . . . . I read everything I could lay hands upon , including novels , and took up all sorts of pursuits to drop them again quite as speedily THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY 13.
... when it did not — which was a very frequent case I was extremely idle . . . . I read everything I could lay hands upon , including novels , and took up all sorts of pursuits to drop them again quite as speedily THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY 13.
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... hands on . His son has told us that Huxley " possessed a wonderful faculty for tearing out the heart of a book , reading it through at a gallop , but know- ing what it said on all the points that interested him . " He grasped at once ...
... hands on . His son has told us that Huxley " possessed a wonderful faculty for tearing out the heart of a book , reading it through at a gallop , but know- ing what it said on all the points that interested him . " He grasped at once ...
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... hand at the mo- ment , a lobster or a piece of chalk or a liberal education ; and the other was general and common to all his addresses and essays , since it was an aggressive desire to set forth the claims of science , to insist upon ...
... hand at the mo- ment , a lobster or a piece of chalk or a liberal education ; and the other was general and common to all his addresses and essays , since it was an aggressive desire to set forth the claims of science , to insist upon ...
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... hands , I feel the burlesque of being employed in this manner at my time of life . But , in another view , and taking in all circumstances , these things , as trifling as they may appear , no less than things of greater importance ...
... hands , I feel the burlesque of being employed in this manner at my time of life . But , in another view , and taking in all circumstances , these things , as trifling as they may appear , no less than things of greater importance ...
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... hands , which made their appearance in me as I reached the age she had when I noticed them - that I can hardly find any trace of my father in myself , except an inborn faculty for drawing , which unfortunately , in my case , has never ...
... hands , which made their appearance in me as I reached the age she had when I noticed them - that I can hardly find any trace of my father in myself , except an inborn faculty for drawing , which unfortunately , in my case , has never ...
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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.