Lay Sermons, Addresses, and ReviewsD. Appleton, 1874 - 378 pages |
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... practical life ; and that , in this respect , if in no other , the movement symbolized by the progress of the Royal Society stands without a parallel in the history of mankind . A series of volumes as bulky as the Transactions of the ...
... practical life ; and that , in this respect , if in no other , the movement symbolized by the progress of the Royal Society stands without a parallel in the history of mankind . A series of volumes as bulky as the Transactions of the ...
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... practical benefits on men , but , in so doing , has effected a revolution in their conceptions of the universe and of themselves , and has profoundly altered their modes of thinking and their views of right and wrong . I say that ...
... practical benefits on men , but , in so doing , has effected a revolution in their conceptions of the universe and of themselves , and has profoundly altered their modes of thinking and their views of right and wrong . I say that ...
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... practical , than the attempt to keep the axle of a wheel from heating when the wheel turns round very fast ? How useful for carters and gig drivers to know something about this ; and how good were it , if any ingenious . person would ...
... practical , than the attempt to keep the axle of a wheel from heating when the wheel turns round very fast ? How useful for carters and gig drivers to know something about this ; and how good were it , if any ingenious . person would ...
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... practical eternity ; they are familiar with the conception that our 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 ...
... practical eternity ; they are familiar with the conception that our 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 ...
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... practical results of the improvement of natural knowledge , and its beneficial influence on material civili- zation , it must , I think , be admitted that the great ideas , some of which I have indicated , and the ethical spirit which I ...
... practical results of the improvement of natural knowledge , and its beneficial influence on material civili- zation , it must , I think , be admitted that the great ideas , some of which I have indicated , and the ethical spirit which I ...
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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.