Report of the Annual Meeting, 90. numberJ. Murray., 1920 |
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Page 34 - Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are.
Page 74 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate— Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Page 138 - Again, too often is this idea of close association of mentality and physique carried into the analysis of individuals within a human group, ie, of men belonging to one or another of the many races which have gone to build up our population. We talk as if it was our population which was mixed, and not our germplasm. We are accustomed to speak of a typical Englishman. For example, Charles Darwin ; we think of his mind as a typical English mind, working in a typical English manner, yet when we come...
Page 47 - ... them. If we are not content with the dull accumulation of experimental facts, if we make any deductions or generalizations, if we seek for any theory to guide us, some degree of speculation cannot be avoided.
Page 138 - Dukes of Bavaria, of Saxony, of Flanders, the Princes of Savoy, and the Kings of Italy. He had the blood in his veins of Franks, Alamans, Merovingians, Burgundians, and Longobards. He sprang in direct descent from the Hun rulers of Hungary and the Greek Emperors of Constantinople. If I recollect rightly, Ivan the Terrible provided a Russian link.
Page 278 - But we are not a jury for this purpose; ours is a bibliographical end. To review the literary results which have come out of discussing the problem of Vincent's importance as an artist would be, however, to repeat much of the following catalogue. It may suffice to mention two items...
Page 49 - The classic authorities tell us that he was only " doing a stunt," but I prefer to think of him as the man who certainly brought to light a constructional defect in the flying machines of his day. So too in science. Cautious Daedalus will apply his theories where he feels...
Page 63 - ... grasp and retain the multifarious details of anatomical science. " But there is a second and even more important aspect of morphological classification. Every group in that classification is such in virtue of certain structural characters, which are not only common to the members of the group, but distinguish it from all others ; and the statement of these constitutes the definition of the group.
Page 136 - Or, again, they will appeal to non-utile branches of science as providing a splendid intellectual training — as if the provision of highly trained minds was not itself a social function of the greatest utility ! In other words, the argument from utility is in both cases indirectly applied to justify the study of science for its own sake. In the old days the study of hyperspace — space of higher dimensions than that of which we have physical cognizance — used to be cited as an example of a non-utile...
Page 48 - ... hypothesis; others will rather seek to explore and classify the widest possibilities which are not definitely inconsistent with the facts. Either choice has its dangers; the first may be too narrow a view and lead progress into a cul-de-sac; the second may be so broad that it is useless as a guide, and diverges indefinitely from experimental knowledge. When this last case happens, it must be concluded that the knowledge is not yet ripe for theoretical treatment and that speculation is premature.