The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 24D. Appleton, 1883 |
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... fact remains that the natural sciences have become the chief fac- tors of our modern civilization ; and - which is ... facts that in no departments of our own university have the methods of teaching been so much im- proved during the ...
... fact remains that the natural sciences have become the chief fac- tors of our modern civilization ; and - which is ... facts that in no departments of our own university have the methods of teaching been so much im- proved during the ...
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... fact . He has no right to think a mole - hill as big as a mountain , nor to teach it , any more than he has to think the world flat , and teach that it is so . The facts and laws of our science have not equal importance , neither have ...
... fact . He has no right to think a mole - hill as big as a mountain , nor to teach it , any more than he has to think the world flat , and teach that it is so . The facts and laws of our science have not equal importance , neither have ...
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... fact of his liking it made it sinful . Whatever was natural was wrong . It was wrong to take pleasure in beautiful scenery , for a pious man had no concern with such matters . On Sunday it was sinful to walk in the fields , or in the ...
... fact of his liking it made it sinful . Whatever was natural was wrong . It was wrong to take pleasure in beautiful scenery , for a pious man had no concern with such matters . On Sunday it was sinful to walk in the fields , or in the ...
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... fact that a chestnut at Nettlecombe , planted within the recollection , and therefore within the life , of Sir John Trevelyan , who died in 1828 , was over seventeen feet . But we may be content with fifteen feet for the first century ...
... fact that a chestnut at Nettlecombe , planted within the recollection , and therefore within the life , of Sir John Trevelyan , who died in 1828 , was over seventeen feet . But we may be content with fifteen feet for the first century ...
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... fact that its larger speci- mens are chiefly found in church - yards and artificial plantations . In favor of its claim is the fact that its pretensions to longevity seem to be better founded than those of any other English tree , not ...
... fact that its larger speci- mens are chiefly found in church - yards and artificial plantations . In favor of its claim is the fact that its pretensions to longevity seem to be better founded than those of any other English tree , not ...
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Page 521 - I hereby appoint sole executrix of this my last will and testament ; hereby revoking all former wills by me made.
Page 349 - Amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the ONE absolute certainty, that he is ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.
Page 223 - everywhere Two heads in council, two beside the hearth, Two in the tangled business of the world, Two in the liberal offices of life, Two plummets dropt for one to sound the abyss Of science, and the secrets of the mind : Musician, painter, sculptor, critic, more : And everywhere the broad and bounteous Earth Should bear a double growth of those rare souls, Poets, whose thoughts enrich the blood of the world.
Page 346 - Consequently, the final outcome of that speculation commenced by the primitive man, is that the Power manifested throughout the Universe distinguished as material, is the same Power which in ourselves wells up under the form of consciousness.
Page 9 - Wherever a variant reading is adopted, some good and recognized Shaksperian Critic has been followed. In no case is a new rendering of the text proposed ; nor has it been thought necessary to distract the reader's attention by notes or comments.
Page 4 - The best Essays, Reviews, Criticisms, Tales, Sketches of Travel and Discovery, Poetry, Scientific, Biographical, Historical, and Political Information, from the entire body of Foreign Periodical Literature, and from the pens of The ablest and most cultivated intellects, in every department of Literature.
Page 472 - Thus there is no escape from the admission that in calling good the conduct which subserves life, and bad the conduct which hinders or destroys it, and in so implying that life is a blessing and not a curse, we are inevitably asserting that conduct is good or bad according as its total effects are pleasurable or painful.
Page 343 - ... they did not commit ; the damning of all men who do not avail themselves of an alleged mode of obtaining forgiveness, which most men have never heard of; and the effecting a reconciliation by sacrificing a son who was perfectly innocent, to satisfy the assumed necessity for a propitiatory victim, are modes of action which, ascribed to a human ruler, would call forth expressions of abhorrence...
Page 347 - ... religious beliefs and sentiments, seem unaware that whatever of mystery is taken from the old interpretation is added to the new. Or rather, we may say that transference from the one to the other is accompanied by increase; since, for an explanation which has a seeming feasibility, science substitutes an explanation which, carrying us back only a certain distance, there leaves us in presence of the avowedly inexplicable.