On the Influence of Brain Power on History: An Address Delivered, Before the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at Southport on September 9th, 1903Macmillan and Company, Limited, 1903 - 74 pages |
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... Southport on September 9th, 1903 Sir Norman Lockyer. Educ 3839.03 20 ciha HARYARD COLLEGE LIBRARY DEPOSITED BY MASSACHUSETTS STATE LIBRARY JUN 4 1929 STTBRUIDARRAM PREFACE SEVERAL friends suggested that I should issue my Presidential.
... Southport on September 9th, 1903 Sir Norman Lockyer. Educ 3839.03 20 ciha HARYARD COLLEGE LIBRARY DEPOSITED BY MASSACHUSETTS STATE LIBRARY JUN 4 1929 STTBRUIDARRAM PREFACE SEVERAL friends suggested that I should issue my Presidential.
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... suggested that I should issue my Presidential address in pamphlet form . I thought it might be useful to do this if it could be accompanied by the data ( which had been published in " Nature " ) on which a large part of the address is ...
... suggested that I should issue my Presidential address in pamphlet form . I thought it might be useful to do this if it could be accompanied by the data ( which had been published in " Nature " ) on which a large part of the address is ...
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... suggest that an official invitation on behalf of the Council be addressed to the societies , through the cor- responding societies committee , asking them to appoint standing British Association sub - committees , to be elected by ...
... suggest that an official invitation on behalf of the Council be addressed to the societies , through the cor- responding societies committee , asking them to appoint standing British Association sub - committees , to be elected by ...
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... suggested the need of organisation , to tell you my personal opinion as to the matters where we suffer most in consequence of our lack of organisation at the present time . Our position as a nation , our success as merchants , are in ...
... suggested the need of organisation , to tell you my personal opinion as to the matters where we suffer most in consequence of our lack of organisation at the present time . Our position as a nation , our success as merchants , are in ...
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... suggested an appeal to private effort . How , then , do we stand with regard to Universities , recognising them as the chief producers of brain - power and therefore the equivalents of battleships in relation to sea - power ? Do their ...
... suggested an appeal to private effort . How , then , do we stand with regard to Universities , recognising them as the chief producers of brain - power and therefore the equivalents of battleships in relation to sea - power ? Do their ...
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Page 7 - To give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, — to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the British Empire, with one another, and with foreign philosophers, — to obtain a more general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress.
Page 51 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the...
Page 38 - The movement in England to which I have referred began in 1872, when a society for the organisation of academical study was formed in connection with the inquiry into the revenues of Oxford and Cambridge, and there was a famous meeting at the Freemasons' Tavern, Mark Pattison being in the chair. Brodie, Rolleston, Carpenter, Burdon-Sanderson were among the speakers, and the first resolution carried was, " That to have a class of men whose lives are devoted to research is a national object.
Page 45 - These impediments may be caused either by the social condition of the country itself, by restrictions arising out of peculiar laws, by the political separation of different countries, or by the magnitude of the undertakings being out of all proportion to the means and power of single...
Page 8 - It is a struggle between organized species — nations— not between individuals or any class of individuals. It is, moreover, a struggle in which science and brains take the place of swords and sinews, on which depended the result of those conflicts which, up to the present, have determined the history and fate of nations. The school, the university, the laboratory and the workshop are the battlefields of this new warfare.
Page 51 - Not more than two complete townships to be given perpetually for the purposes of a University, to be laid off by the purchaser or purchasers, as near the center as may be, so that the same shall be of good land, to be applied to the intended object by the legislature of the State.
Page 43 - Haldane has recently reminded us that ' the weapons which science places in the hands of those who engage in great rivalries of commerce leave those who are without them, however brave, as badly off as were the dervishes of Omdurman against the maxims of Lord Kitchener.
Page 66 - To discover the exceptional man in every department of study whenever and wherever found, inside or outside of schools, and enable him to make the work for which he seems specially designed his life work.
Page 21 - Universities must become as much the insurers of the future progress as battleships are the insurers of the present power of States. In other words, University competition between States is now as potent as competition in building battleships ; and it is on this ground that our University conditions become of the highest national concern, and therefore have to be referred to here, and all the more because our industries are not alone in question. Why we have not more Universities. Chief among the...
Page 34 - But even more wonderful than these examples is the " intellectual effort " made by Japan, not after a war, but to prepare for one. The question is, Shall we wait for a disaster and then imitate Prussia and France ; or shall we follow Japan and thoroughly prepare by