Lay Sermons, Addresses, and ReviewsD. Appleton, 1874 - 378 pages |
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... earth , made possible by the steam pump , gives rise to an amount of wealth to which the millions lost in old London are but as an old song . But spinning jenny and steam pump are , after all , but toys , possessing an accidental value ...
... earth , made possible by the steam pump , gives rise to an amount of wealth to which the millions lost in old London are but as an old song . But spinning jenny and steam pump are , after all , but toys , possessing an accidental value ...
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... earth is but an atom among atoms , whirling , no man knows whither , through illimitable space ; which demonstrates that what we call the peace- ful heaven above us , is but that space , filled by an infinitely subtle matter whose ...
... earth is but an atom among atoms , whirling , no man knows whither , through illimitable space ; which demonstrates that what we call the peace- ful heaven above us , is but that space , filled by an infinitely subtle matter whose ...
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... earth no centre of the universe , but an eccentric speck , so the naturalists find man to be no centre of the living world , but one amidst endless modifications of life ; and as the astronomer observes the mark of practically endless ...
... earth no centre of the universe , but an eccentric speck , so the naturalists find man to be no centre of the living world , but one amidst endless modifications of life ; and as the astronomer observes the mark of practically endless ...
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... earth is but an infinitesimal fragment of that part of the universe which can be seen ; and that , nevertheless , its duration is , as compared with our standards of time , infinite . They have further acquired the idea that man is but ...
... earth is but an infinitesimal fragment of that part of the universe which can be seen ; and that , nevertheless , its duration is , as compared with our standards of time , infinite . They have further acquired the idea that man is but ...
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... earth goes round the sun ; that England underwent a great revolution in 1688 , and France another in 1789 ; that there once lived certain notable men called Chaucer , Shakspeare , Milton , Voltaire , Goethe , Schiller . The first might ...
... earth goes round the sun ; that England underwent a great revolution in 1688 , and France another in 1789 ; that there once lived certain notable men called Chaucer , Shakspeare , Milton , Voltaire , Goethe , Schiller . The first might ...
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Page 32 - The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.
Page 35 - ... her 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. He will make the best of her, and she of him. They will get on together...
Page 145 - 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 146 - In itself it is of little moment whether we express the phenomena of matter in terms of spirit, or the phenomena of spirit in terms of matter ; matter may be regarded as a form of thought, thought may be regarded as a property of matter — each statement has a certain relative truth. But with a view to the progress of science, the materialistic terminology is in every way to be preferred.
Page 32 - Anything which professes to call itself education must be tried by this standard, and if it fails to stand the test, I will not call it education, whatever may be the force of authority, or of numbers, upon the other side. It is important to remember that, in strictness, there is no such thing as an uneducated man. Take an extreme case. Suppose that an adult man, in the full...
Page 249 - Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness ; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in ; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.
Page 34 - And a liberal education is an artificial education which has not only prepared a man to escape the great evils of disobedience to natural laws, but has trained him to appreciate and to seize upon the rewards, which Nature scatters with as free a hand as her penalties.