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Little Journeys to Homes of Great Scientists ...: Ernst Haeckel. Carl von ... - Page 57
by Elbert Hubbard - 1905
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The Omaha Clinic, Volume 8

1895 - 422 pages
...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, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind; whose mind is stored with a knowledge...
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Proceedings, Volume 5

American Society for Engineering Education, Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education (U.S.) - 1898 - 446 pages
...engine, with all its parts of equal strength and in smooth running order, ready, like a steam-engine, to be turned to any kind of work and to spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind." Here the intellect of man is considered as a mechanism, one which should be at once comprehensive in...
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Science and Education

Huxley, Thomas H. - 1898
...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, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind ; whose mind is stored with a knowledge...
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Open Sesame!: Arranged for students over fourteen years old

Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1898 - 484 pages
...lamp within his hand ! A LIBERAL EDUCATION. THOMAS H. HUXLEY. of equal strength and in smooth working order ; ready like a steam engine to be turned to any kind of work arid spin the gossamers, as well as forge the anchors of the mind ; whose mind is stored with a knowledge...
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The Secret of Achievement: A Book Designed to Teach that the Highest ...

Orison Swett Marden - 1898 - 424 pages
...strength and in smooth workingorder, 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. — HUXLEY. He is a good divine that follows his own instructions ; I can easier teach twenty what...
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A History of Education

Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1898 - 380 pages
...strength, and in smooth working order ; ready, like a steam-en{^ne, to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the g'ossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind ; w hose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of Nature, and of the...
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Theory and Practice of Teaching: Or, The Motives and Methods of Good School ...

David Perkins Page - 1899 - 402 pages
...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, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind ; whose mind is stored with a knowledge...
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McClure's Magazine, Volume 13

1899 - 848 pages
...that Huxley describes as " a clear, cold logic engine, ready to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind." It mattered not what subject was before him, he went at it steadily, methodically, unrelentingly. "It...
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Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley, Volume 1

Leonard Huxley - 1900 - 580 pages
...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, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind; whose mind is stored with a knowledge...
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The Inland Educator, Volumes 9-10

1900 - 654 pages
...intellect is a clear, cold logic-engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth wurking order : ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work and spin the gos samers as well as forge the anchors of the mind : whosi mind is stored with a knowledge...
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