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الصفحة viii
... then , as I have now , the greatest respect . Ever , my dear TYNDALL , Yours very faithfully , LONDON , June 1870 . T. H. HUXLEY . CONTENTS . ON THE ADVISABLENESS OF I. IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE viii 3 Prefatory Letter .
... then , as I have now , the greatest respect . Ever , my dear TYNDALL , Yours very faithfully , LONDON , June 1870 . T. H. HUXLEY . CONTENTS . ON THE ADVISABLENESS OF I. IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE viii 3 Prefatory Letter .
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... . " ( An Address to the Cambridge Young Men's Christian Society , delivered on the 24th of March , 1870 , and subsequently published in Macmillan's Magazine ) • 320 I. ON THE ADVISABLENESS OF IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE . THIS Contents .
... . " ( An Address to the Cambridge Young Men's Christian Society , delivered on the 24th of March , 1870 , and subsequently published in Macmillan's Magazine ) • 320 I. ON THE ADVISABLENESS OF IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE . THIS Contents .
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Thomas Henry Huxley. I. ON THE ADVISABLENESS OF IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE . THIS time two hundred years ago - in the beginning of January , 1666 - those of our forefathers who inhabited this great and ancient city , took breath between ...
Thomas Henry Huxley. I. ON THE ADVISABLENESS OF IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE . THIS time two hundred years ago - in the beginning of January , 1666 - those of our forefathers who inhabited this great and ancient city , took breath between ...
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... knowledge . " The ends they proposed to attain cannot be stated more clearly than in the words of one of the founders of the organization : - " Our business was ( precluding matters of theology and state affairs ) to discourse and ...
... knowledge . " The ends they proposed to attain cannot be stated more clearly than in the words of one of the founders of the organization : - " Our business was ( precluding matters of theology and state affairs ) to discourse and ...
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... Knowledge " had already become famous , and had acquired a claim upon the vene- ration of Englishmen , which it has ever since retained , as the principal focus of scientific activity in our islands , and the chief champion of the cause ...
... Knowledge " had already become famous , and had acquired a claim upon the vene- ration of Englishmen , which it has ever since retained , as the principal focus of scientific activity in our islands , and the chief champion of the cause ...
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الصفحة 32 - The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.
الصفحة 35 - Morte D'Arthur. — SIR THOMAS MALORY'S BOOK OF KING ARTHUR AND OF HIS NOBLE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE. The Edition of CAXTON, revised for Modern Use. With an Introduction by SIR EDWARD STRACHEY Bart. Globe 8vo. y. 6d. New Edion. "It is with the most perfect confidence that we recommend this edition of the old romance to every class of readers.
الصفحة 12 - As when in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful, when all the winds are laid, And every height comes out, and jutting peak And valley, and the immeasurable heavens Break open to their highest, and all the stars Shine, and the Shepherd gladdens in his heart...
الصفحة 28 - Shelley's definition of Poetry as the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds.
الصفحة 36 - Worthy — and higher praise it needs not — of the beautiful ' Globe Series' The work is edited with all the care so noble a poet deserves.'"— DAILY NEWS. Sir Walter Scott's Poetical Works. Edited with a Biographical and Critical Memoir by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE, and copious Notes, pp. xliii., 559" We can almost sympathise with a middle-aged grumbler, who, after reading Mr.
الصفحة 34 - 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...
الصفحة 38 - THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF THE BEST SONGS AND LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE.
الصفحة 30 - LIFE'S A DREAM : The Great Theatre of the World. With an Essay on his Life and Genius. Fcap. 8vo. 4^. fid. HOUSEHOLD BOOK OF ENGLISH POETRY. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by Archbishop TRENCH. Second Edition. Extra fcap. 8vo. 5*. 6d. This volume is called a
الصفحة 146 - In itself it is of little moment whether we express the phenomena of matter in terms of spirit, or the phenomena of spirit in terms of matter; matter may be regarded as a form of thought, thought may be regarded as a property of matter ; each statement has a certain relative truth. But with a view to the progress of science the materialistic terminology is in every way to be preferred...
الصفحة 249 - Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness ; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in ; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.