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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... Animal strength fails , but here are the forces which hold the world together , and the instincts and successes of Man assure him that these forces are his when he is wise enough to command them . In the title of this Lecture , the ...
... Animal strength fails , but here are the forces which hold the world together , and the instincts and successes of Man assure him that these forces are his when he is wise enough to command them . In the title of this Lecture , the ...
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... animal substances for connecting the poles , finding that all such materials yielded , by their decomposition , muriatic acid ; and , for the same reason , he also aban- doned glass vessels , as yielding soda . By substituting ...
... animal substances for connecting the poles , finding that all such materials yielded , by their decomposition , muriatic acid ; and , for the same reason , he also aban- doned glass vessels , as yielding soda . By substituting ...
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... animals . The study of organic types , introduced by Dumas , and extended by Laurent and Gerhardt , may also initiate the mind in the idea which serves as a key to all the arrangements in the natural sciences — an idea which will be ...
... animals . The study of organic types , introduced by Dumas , and extended by Laurent and Gerhardt , may also initiate the mind in the idea which serves as a key to all the arrangements in the natural sciences — an idea which will be ...
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... Animals Celestial . Terrestrial . Inorganic . Organic . Vegetable . Animal . NATURAL HISTORY OF Meteorology . Mineralogy . Lithology . Geological Dynamics . Pal¿ontology . Systematic Botany . Organography . Zoology . Anatomy . 3. The ...
... Animals Celestial . Terrestrial . Inorganic . Organic . Vegetable . Animal . NATURAL HISTORY OF Meteorology . Mineralogy . Lithology . Geological Dynamics . Pal¿ontology . Systematic Botany . Organography . Zoology . Anatomy . 3. The ...
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... animal and in the vegetable kingdom . Of these , the first named is termed mechanical philo- sophy , or physics ; the second is included under chemis- try ; the third under general physiology . With regard to those other departments of ...
... animal and in the vegetable kingdom . Of these , the first named is termed mechanical philo- sophy , or physics ; the second is included under chemis- try ; the third under general physiology . With regard to those other departments of ...
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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.