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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... relations and connexions , and thus brings them clearer and clearer before his mental eye , until , finally , by a kind of inspiration , he alights upon the cause which unites them . This is the last act of the mind , in this ...
... relations and connexions , and thus brings them clearer and clearer before his mental eye , until , finally , by a kind of inspiration , he alights upon the cause which unites them . This is the last act of the mind , in this ...
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... relations subsisting between Man and the world in which he dwells . Here , on the one side , we have the apparently lawless shifting of phenomena ; on the other side , mind , which requires law for its equilibrium , and in obedience to ...
... relations subsisting between Man and the world in which he dwells . Here , on the one side , we have the apparently lawless shifting of phenomena ; on the other side , mind , which requires law for its equilibrium , and in obedience to ...
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... relation which can be traced between the numbers representing the atomic weights of several of these elements - relations which , as some of you may recollect , induced Mons . Dumas , at the Ipswich meeting of the British Associa- tion ...
... relation which can be traced between the numbers representing the atomic weights of several of these elements - relations which , as some of you may recollect , induced Mons . Dumas , at the Ipswich meeting of the British Associa- tion ...
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... relations between the atomic weights of those elements which are most nearly connected with each other by the circumstances of homology and of isomorphism , that is , by the similar proportions in which they respectively combine with ...
... relations between the atomic weights of those elements which are most nearly connected with each other by the circumstances of homology and of isomorphism , that is , by the similar proportions in which they respectively combine with ...
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... relations between natural objects are based , not upon mutual identity , but upon degrees of resemblance ; and the characters of each of them pass by such impercep- tible gradations into the next in the series , that every ...
... relations between natural objects are based , not upon mutual identity , but upon degrees of resemblance ; and the characters of each of them pass by such impercep- tible gradations into the next in the series , that every ...
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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.