Anniversary AddressesCongregational Sunday School and Publishing Company, 1894 - 517 pages |
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Page 21
... early training . We are to form our- selves on the model of the integer rather than the frac- tion of humanity . The metaphysician cannot afford to be ignorant of the " chemistry of a candle " or the " history of a piece of chalk ...
... early training . We are to form our- selves on the model of the integer rather than the frac- tion of humanity . The metaphysician cannot afford to be ignorant of the " chemistry of a candle " or the " history of a piece of chalk ...
Page 22
... early training shall go far through life to save us from partial paralysis or monstrosity . To ensure this result , however , we must add to that fullness of material the quality of mental equipoise or mastery , the power of grasping ...
... early training shall go far through life to save us from partial paralysis or monstrosity . To ensure this result , however , we must add to that fullness of material the quality of mental equipoise or mastery , the power of grasping ...
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... early manhood , and so admirably gained - the power of presenting things clearly to " plain people . " You may call it " the art of putting things , " but it is the art of conceiving things . It is no trick of style , but a char- acter ...
... early manhood , and so admirably gained - the power of presenting things clearly to " plain people . " You may call it " the art of putting things , " but it is the art of conceiving things . It is no trick of style , but a char- acter ...
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... to denominate Natural Selection " a puerile hypothesis . " We will promise to pay our respects to our " early progenitor " of " arboreal habits " and " ears pointed and capable of movement , " when he is 28 ANNIVERSARY ADDRESSES .
... to denominate Natural Selection " a puerile hypothesis . " We will promise to pay our respects to our " early progenitor " of " arboreal habits " and " ears pointed and capable of movement , " when he is 28 ANNIVERSARY ADDRESSES .
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... early youth by saying , " I do not ask myself whether I can do a thing ; I command my- self to do it . " Read the singular sketch of his intel- lectual gymnastics at twenty - one , spurring himself to " inward deep voluntary thought ...
... early youth by saying , " I do not ask myself whether I can do a thing ; I command my- self to do it . " Read the singular sketch of his intel- lectual gymnastics at twenty - one , spurring himself to " inward deep voluntary thought ...
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