Selected Essays and Addresses of Thomas Henry HuxleyMacmillan, 1910 - 340 pages |
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... force of character to do it ; which of us dare ask for a higher summary of his life than that ? " These words were written by Huxley to his friend Hooker on the death of Professor Henslow ; and they are even more appropriate when they ...
... force of character to do it ; which of us dare ask for a higher summary of his life than that ? " These words were written by Huxley to his friend Hooker on the death of Professor Henslow ; and they are even more appropriate when they ...
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... force , operating according to rigid rules ; which leads us to contemplate phenomena the very nature of which demonstrates that they must have had a beginning , and that they must have an end , but the very nature of which also proves ...
... force , operating according to rigid rules ; which leads us to contemplate phenomena the very nature of which demonstrates that they must have had a beginning , and that they must have an end , but the very nature of which also proves ...
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... force which pro- 5 duces weight is co - extensive with the universe , in short , to the theory of universal gravitation and end- less force . While learning how to handle gases led to the discovery of oxygen , and to modern chemistry ...
... force which pro- 5 duces weight is co - extensive with the universe , in short , to the theory of universal gravitation and end- less force . While learning how to handle gases led to the discovery of oxygen , and to modern chemistry ...
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... force ; and if both have alike pro- claimed the universality of a definite and predicable 15 order and succession of events , the workers in biol- ogy have not only accepted all these , but have added more startling theses of their own ...
... force ; and if both have alike pro- claimed the universality of a definite and predicable 15 order and succession of events , the workers in biol- ogy have not only accepted all these , but have added more startling theses of their own ...
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... a definite order of the universe - which is embodied in what are called , by an unhappy metaphor , the laws of Nature and to narrow the - 19 range and loosen the force of men's belief in IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE 47.
... a definite order of the universe - which is embodied in what are called , by an unhappy metaphor , the laws of Nature and to narrow the - 19 range and loosen the force of men's belief in IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE 47.
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Page 41 - ... 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; whose intellect is a clear cold logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order; ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind...
Page 245 - If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number'} No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
Page 41 - ... 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. Such an one and no other, I conceive, has had a liberal education; for he is, as completely as a man can be, in harmony with nature.
Page 36 - 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. It is a game which has been played for untold ages, every man and woman of us being one of the two players in a game of his or her own. The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of...
Page 243 - Simply, that in all human experience stones have fallen to the ground under these conditions; that we have not the smallest reason for believing that any stone so circumstanced will not fall to the ground ; and that we have, on the contrary, every reason to believe that it will so fall.
Page 37 - 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.
Page 40 - Nature's discipline is not even a word and a blow, and the blow first; but the blow without the word. It is left to you to find out why your ears are boxed.
Page 169 - She is teaching the world that the ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment, and not authority ; she is teaching it to estimate the value of evidence ; she is creating a firm and living faith in the existence of immutable moral and physical laws, perfect obedience to which is the highest possible aim of an intelligent being.
Page 238 - I can discover no logical halting-place between the admission that such is the case, and the further concession that all vital action may, with equal propriety, be said to be the result of the molecular forces of the protoplasm which displays it. And if so, it must be true, in the same sense and to the same extent, that the thoughts to which I am now giving utterance, and your thoughts regarding them, are the « Mode of working. expression of molecular changes in that matter of life which is the...