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... natural sciences show that they can lend themselves to the same exactions . Even manual training in set exercises and domestic science in recipes as governors rather than as working hypotheses have often followed the course . But today ...
... natural sciences show that they can lend themselves to the same exactions . Even manual training in set exercises and domestic science in recipes as governors rather than as working hypotheses have often followed the course . But today ...
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... natural outcome of the period of transition then draw- ing to its close . In less than a generation all knowledge had been forced on school and college by an enthusiastic public , and the necessity of allow- ing freedom of election was ...
... natural outcome of the period of transition then draw- ing to its close . In less than a generation all knowledge had been forced on school and college by an enthusiastic public , and the necessity of allow- ing freedom of election was ...
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... nature of its task . It is its province to deal with thought in application , and it is thus forced not only to give up those vague generalities that conceal so many fundamental differences in theory and practice , but to occupy itself ...
... nature of its task . It is its province to deal with thought in application , and it is thus forced not only to give up those vague generalities that conceal so many fundamental differences in theory and practice , but to occupy itself ...
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... natural outcome of knowledge made truly one's own . The evil of example , so much talked of in this respect , is perhaps the most subtle and far reaching result of our failure to transform theoretic knowledge into practical power . But ...
... natural outcome of knowledge made truly one's own . The evil of example , so much talked of in this respect , is perhaps the most subtle and far reaching result of our failure to transform theoretic knowledge into practical power . But ...
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... nature of things that every sentence worth writing embodies a new thought , that the student who thinks - and we have failed utterly if the student does not think - has at the best to ' win clearness through attempts that are ...
... nature of things that every sentence worth writing embodies a new thought , that the student who thinks - and we have failed utterly if the student does not think - has at the best to ' win clearness through attempts that are ...
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Page 46 - tis ignoble to have led my life In idle meditations — that the times Demand me, that they call my father'B name ? Oh ! what a fiery heart was his ! such souls Whose sudden visitations daze the world, Vanish like lightning, but they leave behind A voice that in the distance far away Wakens the slumbering ages.
Page 179 - All the rivers run into the sea ; yet the sea is not full ; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Page 99 - Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame ; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame ; But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They Are!
Page 48 - ... for attaining our end, we must also include the whole science of Medicine, and, as many difficult things are by contrivance rendered easy, and we can in this way gain much time and convenience, the science of Mechanics must in no way be despised.
Page 99 - It is believed that a leading aim in history teaching is to help the child to appreciate what his fellows are doing and to help him to intelligent voluntary action in agreement or disagreement with them.
Page 179 - Truth crushed to earth will rise again ; The eternal years of God are hers; While error wounded writhes in pain, And dies amid her worshippers.
Page 40 - Who knows but he, whose hand the light'ning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms; Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind, Or turns young Ammon loose to scourge mankind?
Page 48 - Education " for the most part signifies giving people the faculty of thinking wrong on every conceivable subject of importance to them.
Page 24 - ... of Art, not yet subdued by practice and general consent to a definiteness of accentuation essential to ease and congruity of metrical arrangement. Had he been born fifty years later, his ripened manhood would have found itself in an England absorbed and angry with the solution of political and religious problems, from which his whole nature was averse...
Page 108 - But who shall decide this question of interference? To whom lies the last appeal? This, sir, the Constitution itself decides, also, by declaring, " that the judicial power shall extend to all cases arising under the Constitution and laws of the United States.