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" ... 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... "
Little Journeys to Homes of Great Scientists ...: Ernst Haeckel. Carl von ... - Page 57
by Elbert Hubbard - 1905
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Between Literature and Science: The Rise of Sociology

Wolf Lepenies - 1988 - 404 pages
...nothing more than the instruction of the mind in the laws of nature, and he who had enjoyed it was 'ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work'." It was thus all the more regrettable that English educational institutions still gave priority to the...
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Alcalde, Volume 4

1915 - 766 pages
...famous words of Huxley, "is 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." What else can you say about a man whose favorite game is football and whose favorite poem is Endymion;...
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The Columbia Guide to Standard American English

Kenneth George Wilson - 1993 - 508 pages
...whether it is Thomas Huxley's description of the intellect of the liberally educated person, which can "spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind"; or Abraham Lincoln's "government of the people, by the people, for the people." bald, balding (adjs.)...
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The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1997 - 398 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 Temptations of Evolutionary Ethics

Paul Lawrence Farber - 1994 - 228 pages
...intellect that "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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Progress and Identity in the Plays of W.B. Yeats, 1892-1907

Barbara Ann Suess - 2003 - 218 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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Babel and the Ivory Tower: The Scholar in the Age of Science

William David Shaw, Professor W David Shaw - 2005 - 316 pages
...by the metaphors of Huxley the rhetorician. If his mind is best described by a technological model, 'ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work' (3:86), we should not be surprised if the work to which it turns is scientific, since scientific technology...
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The English Reader: What Every Literate Person Needs to Know

Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 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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Huxley's Autobiography and Essays

Thomas Henry Huxley - 2006 - 289 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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Nervous Conditions: Science and the Body Politic in Early Industrial Britain

Elizabeth Green Musselman - 2012 - 290 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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