Autobiography and EssaysKraus Reprint Company, 1919 - 276 pages |
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... speak of the " dead languages , " and the familiar phrase is right in the sense that the tongues themselves in the form they once took are no longer vital on the lips of men . But the thought and feeling embodied in the words of great ...
... speak of the " dead languages , " and the familiar phrase is right in the sense that the tongues themselves in the form they once took are no longer vital on the lips of men . But the thought and feeling embodied in the words of great ...
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... speak to one another when they have mat- ters of importance to communicate . In his desire to make himself clear , and so to shape what he had to impart that it should be easy to under- stand , he was greatly aided by his training as ...
... speak to one another when they have mat- ters of importance to communicate . In his desire to make himself clear , and so to shape what he had to impart that it should be easy to under- stand , he was greatly aided by his training as ...
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... speak as confidently about the animal of the Belemnite , as Zadig was respecting the queen's spaniel . He could give a very fair description of its external appearance , and even enter pretty fully into the details of its internal ...
... speak as confidently about the animal of the Belemnite , as Zadig was respecting the queen's spaniel . He could give a very fair description of its external appearance , and even enter pretty fully into the details of its internal ...
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... speak as confidently of the character of long extinct living beings , no trace of which has been preserved , as Zadig did of the queen's spaniel and the king's horse . Let us hope that they may be better rewarded for their toil and ...
... speak as confidently of the character of long extinct living beings , no trace of which has been preserved , as Zadig did of the queen's spaniel and the king's horse . Let us hope that they may be better rewarded for their toil and ...
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... speaking generally , be my plan . But I have undertaken to explain to you the best mode of ac- quiring and communicating a knowledge of zoölogy , and you may therefore fairly ask me for a more detailed and precise account of the manner ...
... speaking generally , be my plan . But I have undertaken to explain to you the best mode of ac- quiring and communicating a knowledge of zoölogy , and you may therefore fairly ask me for a more detailed and precise account of the manner ...
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æsthetic ancient animal antiquity appendages Belemnite believe better body bronze called carbonic acid century chalk coccoliths College cretaceous culture Darwin Darwin medal deposit doubt English epoch evidence existence fact feet force fossil Globigerina Greek horse human huts Huxley Huxley's improvement of natural infinite intellectual Italy Josiah Mason kind knowl language Latin laws learned lectures less liberal education lime literature living lobster mankind marsupial matter means ment method of Zadig mind modern moral natural knowledge never Oannes opossums organization Padane plain paleontology Pantheon philosophers physical science pile-dwellings pile-middens pleasure possessed practical present question Radiolaria reason remains retrospective prophecy Roman schools scientific education seaurchin sense shell skeleton species spinning jenny Spirula student taught teacher teaching tell things THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY thought tion truth universe words writing Zadig zoology
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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.