Modern Culture, Its True Aims and Requirements: A Series of Addresses and Arguments on the Claims of Scientific Education by Professors Tyndall, Daubeny ... EtcMacmillan and Company, 1867 - 423 pages |
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... action . - The first experiment a man makes is a physical ex- periment : the suction - pump is but an imitation of the first act of every new - born infant . Nor do I think it calculated to lesson that infant's reverence , or to make ON ...
... action . - The first experiment a man makes is a physical ex- periment : the suction - pump is but an imitation of the first act of every new - born infant . Nor do I think it calculated to lesson that infant's reverence , or to make ON ...
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... action , so utterly withdrawn from those studies to which its earliest tendencies point , and in the cultivation of which the concurrence of its ardour would powerfully tend to the augmentation of its strength , as to leave the man in ...
... action , so utterly withdrawn from those studies to which its earliest tendencies point , and in the cultivation of which the concurrence of its ardour would powerfully tend to the augmentation of its strength , as to leave the man in ...
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... action , but makes them our slaves . By the study of Physics we have opened to us treasuries of power of which antiquity never dreamed : we lord it over Matter , but in so doing we have become better acquainted with the laws of Mind ...
... action , but makes them our slaves . By the study of Physics we have opened to us treasuries of power of which antiquity never dreamed : we lord it over Matter , but in so doing we have become better acquainted with the laws of Mind ...
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... means of mental culture , but also as a moral influence to woo these people from pursuits which now degrade them . A man's reformation oftener depends upon the indirect than upon the direct action of the will . ON THE STUDY OF PHYSICS . 21.
... means of mental culture , but also as a moral influence to woo these people from pursuits which now degrade them . A man's reformation oftener depends upon the indirect than upon the direct action of the will . ON THE STUDY OF PHYSICS . 21.
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... action of the will . The will must be exerted in the choice of employment which shall break the force of temptation by erecting a barrier against it . The drunkard , for example , is in a perilous condition if he content himself merely ...
... action of the will . The will must be exerted in the choice of employment which shall break the force of temptation by erecting a barrier against it . The drunkard , for example , is in a perilous condition if he content himself merely ...
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Page 4 - Onward and on, the eternal Pan Who layeth the world's incessant plan, Halteth never in one shape, But forever doth escape, Like wave or flame, into new forms Of gem, and air, of plants, and worms.
Page 321 - I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light.
Page 289 - ... if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other...
Page 314 - On earth there is nothing great but man, In man there is nothing great but mind.
Page 86 - The proper arrangement, for example, of a code of laws, depends on the same scientific conditions as the classifications in natural history ; nor could there be a better preparatory discipline for that important function than the study of the principles of a natural arrangement, not only in the abstract, but in their actual application to the class of phenomena for which they were first elaborated, and which are still the best school for le'arning their use.
Page 210 - The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examination ; that in the most successful instances not a tenth of the suggestions, the hopes, the wishes, the preliminary conclusions have been realized.
Page 389 - Modern writers have been prevented by many causes from supplying the deficiencies of their classical predecessors. At the time of the revival of literature, no man could, without great and painful labour, acquire an accurate and elegant knowledge of the ancient languages.
Page 384 - No human pursuits make any material progress until science is brought to bear upon them. We have seen, accordingly, many of them slumber for centuries upon centuries; but, from the moment that science has touched them with her magic wand, they have sprung forward, and taken strides which amaze and almost awe the beholder. Look at the transformation which has gone...
Page 255 - They know not how to spend their time (disports excepted, which are all their business), what to do, or otherwise how to bestow themselves ; like our modern Frenchmen, that had rather lose a pound of blood in a single combat, than a drop of sweat in any honest labour.
Page 293 - He roved among the vales and streams, In the green wood and hollow dell ; They were his dwellings night and day, — But Nature ne'er could find the way Into the heart of Peter Bell. In vain, through every changeful year, Did Nature lead him as before ; A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more.