Little Journeys to Homes of Great Scientists ...: Ernst Haeckel. Carl von Linnaeus. Thomas H. Huxley. John Tyndall. Alfred R. Wallace. John FiskeThe Roycrofters, 1905 |
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... writing . His parents were plain people , neither rich nor poor - and of such is the Kingdom of Heaven . The greatest error one can make in life , is not to be well born ; failing in this , a man struggles through life under an awful ...
... writing . His parents were plain people , neither rich nor poor - and of such is the Kingdom of Heaven . The greatest error one can make in life , is not to be well born ; failing in this , a man struggles through life under an awful ...
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... writing " The Riddle of the Universe , " he took no exercise save to go up on the roof , breathing deeply and pound- ing his chest , varying the pounding by reaching his arms above his head and stretching . However , after a few weeks ...
... writing " The Riddle of the Universe , " he took no exercise save to go up on the roof , breathing deeply and pound- ing his chest , varying the pounding by reaching his arms above his head and stretching . However , after a few weeks ...
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... writing the book he got an education - to find out about a thing , write a book on it . Pliny returned to Rome and began the prac- tice of law , and developed into a special pleader of marked power . He still held his commission in the ...
... writing the book he got an education - to find out about a thing , write a book on it . Pliny returned to Rome and began the prac- tice of law , and developed into a special pleader of marked power . He still held his commission in the ...
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... writer has said . After a year at the University of Lund , with more learned by working for his board than at school , there was a visit from Dr. Rothman who just dropped in to see his old friend Stobaeus . The fact was , Rothman cared ...
... writer has said . After a year at the University of Lund , with more learned by working for his board than at school , there was a visit from Dr. Rothman who just dropped in to see his old friend Stobaeus . The fact was , Rothman cared ...
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... seventh year Huxley never had to look for work . He was known as a writer of worth and as a lecturer his services were in demand . He became LITTLE JOURNEYS LITTLE president of the Geological and Ethnological Society , JOURNEYS 77.
... seventh year Huxley never had to look for work . He was known as a writer of worth and as a lecturer his services were in demand . He became LITTLE JOURNEYS LITTLE president of the Geological and Ethnological Society , JOURNEYS 77.
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Page 57 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order; ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work...
Page 57 - ... is a clear, cold logic engine with all its parts of equal strength and in smooth working order; ready like a steam engine to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind...
Page 57 - ... whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of Nature and of the laws of 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.
Page 133 - We do not find that evil has been interpolated into the universe from without; we find that, on the contrary, it is an indispensable part of the dramatic whole. God is the creator of evil, and from the eternal scheme of things diabolism is forever excluded.
Page 70 - Seriously, it is to me a grave thing that the destinies of this country should at present be seriously influenced by a man who, whatever he may be in the affairs of which I am no judge, is nothing but a copious shuffler in those which I do understand.
Page 81 - Church and not a Pantheon, and the Dean thereof is officially a Christian priest, and we ask him to bestow exceptional Christian honours by this burial in the Abbey. George Eliot is known not only as a great writer, but as a person whose life and opinions were in notorious antagonism to Christian practice in regard to marriage, and Christian theory in regard to dogma. How am I to tell the Dean that I think he ought to read over the body of a person who did not repent of what the Church considers...
Page 102 - I fitted up a little box for a cradle, with a soft mat for it to lie upon, which was changed and washed every day ; and I soon found it necessary to wash the little Mias as well. After I had done so a few times, it came to like the operation, and as soon as it was dirty would begin crying, and not leave...
Page 80 - Above all else, let me preserve my integrity of intellect," said Huxley. Here is Huxley's letter to Spencer : 4 Marlborough Place, Dec. 27, 1880. My dear Spencer — Your telegram which reached me on Friday evening caused me great perplexity, inasmuch as I had just been talking to Morley, and agreeing with him that the proposal for a funeral in Westminster Abbey had a very questionable look to us, who desired nothing so much as that peace and honour should attend George Eliot to her grave. It can...
Page 103 - When laid upon the floor it would push itself along by its legs, or roll itself over, and thus make an unwieldy progression. When lying in the box it would lift itself up to the edge in an almost erect position, and once or twice succeeded in tumbling out. When left dirty or hungry, or otherwise neglected, it would scream violently till attended to, varied by a kind of coughing noise, very similar to that which is made by the adult animal. *' If no one was in the house, or its cries were not attended...
Page 133 - We are thus brought to a striking conclusion, the essential soundness of which cannot be gainsaid. In a happy world there** must be sorrow and pain, and in a moral world the knowledge of evil is indispensable. The stern necessity for this has been proved to inhere in the innermost constitution of the human soul. It is part and parcel of the universe. To him who is disposed to cavil at the world which God has in such wise created, we may fairly put the question whether the prospect of escape from...