Lay Sermons, Addresses, and ReviewsD. Appleton, 1874 - 378 pages |
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... REASON RIGHTLY AND OF SEEKING SCIENTIFIC TRUTH . " ( An Address to the Cambridge Young Men's Christian Society , delivered on the 24th of March , 1870 , and subsequently published in Macmillan's Magazine ) . 320 XV . SPONTANEOUS ...
... REASON RIGHTLY AND OF SEEKING SCIENTIFIC TRUTH . " ( An Address to the Cambridge Young Men's Christian Society , delivered on the 24th of March , 1870 , and subsequently published in Macmillan's Magazine ) . 320 XV . SPONTANEOUS ...
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... reason to believe that it is the improvement of our faith , nor that of our morals , which keeps the plague from our city ; but , again , that it is the improvement of our natural knowledge . We have learned that pestilences will only ...
... reason to believe that it is the improvement of our faith , nor that of our morals , which keeps the plague from our city ; but , again , that it is the improvement of our natural knowledge . We have learned that pestilences will only ...
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... reason and to fact . Those who discourse in such fashion seem to me to be so intent upon trying to see what is above Nature , or what is behind her , that they are blind to what stares them in the face , in her . I should not venture to ...
... reason and to fact . Those who discourse in such fashion seem to me to be so intent upon trying to see what is above Nature , or what is behind her , that they are blind to what stares them in the face , in her . I should not venture to ...
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... a bad one , and scepticism a sin ; that when good authority has pronounced what is to be believed , and faith has ac- cepted it , reason has no further duty . There : . ] ADVISABLENESS OF IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE . 17.
... a bad one , and scepticism a sin ; that when good authority has pronounced what is to be believed , and faith has ac- cepted it , reason has no further duty . There : . ] ADVISABLENESS OF IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE . 17.
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Thomas Henry Huxley. cepted it , reason has no further duty . There are many excellent persons who yet hold by these principles , and it is not my present business , or intention , to discuss their views . All I wish to bring clearly ...
Thomas Henry Huxley. cepted it , reason has no further duty . There are many excellent persons who yet hold by these principles , and it is not my present business , or intention , to discuss their views . All I wish to bring clearly ...
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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.