Science and Culture: And Other EssaysMacmillan, 1888 - 349 síđur |
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Síđa 125
... Cuvier , of Lamarck , and of Robert Brown ; of Von Baer , and of Schwann ; of Smith and of Hutton , have all been carried on since Priestley discovered oxygen ; and consider that they are now things of the past , con- cealed by the ...
... Cuvier , of Lamarck , and of Robert Brown ; of Von Baer , and of Schwann ; of Smith and of Hutton , have all been carried on since Priestley discovered oxygen ; and consider that they are now things of the past , con- cealed by the ...
Síđa 128
... CUVIER.1 IT is a usual and a commendable practice to preface the discussion of the views of a philosophic thinker by some account of the man and of the circumstances which shaped his life and coloured his way of looking at things ; but ...
... CUVIER.1 IT is a usual and a commendable practice to preface the discussion of the views of a philosophic thinker by some account of the man and of the circumstances which shaped his life and coloured his way of looking at things ; but ...
Síđa 143
... Cuvier , the great master of this kind of investigation , gave a very different account of the process which yielded such remarkable results . Cuvier is not the first man of ability who has failed to make his own mental processes clear ...
... Cuvier , the great master of this kind of investigation , gave a very different account of the process which yielded such remarkable results . Cuvier is not the first man of ability who has failed to make his own mental processes clear ...
Síđa 144
... Cuvier's sagacity , and he evidently takes some pride in telling his story about it . A split slab of stone arrived from the quarries of Montmartre , the two halves of which con- tained the greater part of the skeleton of a small animal ...
... Cuvier's sagacity , and he evidently takes some pride in telling his story about it . A split slab of stone arrived from the quarries of Montmartre , the two halves of which con- tained the greater part of the skeleton of a small animal ...
Síđa 145
... Cuvier , seeing that the teeth and jaw of his fossil were just like those of an opossum , had the same right to conclude that the pelvis would also be like an opossum's ; and so strong was his conviction that this retrospective prophecy ...
... Cuvier , seeing that the teeth and jaw of his fossil were just like those of an opossum , had the same right to conclude that the pelvis would also be like an opossum's ; and so strong was his conviction that this retrospective prophecy ...
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Síđa 312 - History warns us, however, that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as Heresies and to end as superstitions...
Síđa 10 - I find myself wholly unable to admit that either nations or individuals will really advance, if their common outfit draws nothing from the stores of physical science. I should say that an army, without weapons of precision and with no particular base of operations, might more hopefully enter upon a campaign on the Rhine, than a man, devoid of a knowledge of what physical science has done in the last century, upon a criticism of life.
Síđa 74 - Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not...
Síđa 42 - Are you really my son Esau, or not?" 22 So Jacob came closer to his father Isaac. When he touched him, he said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
Síđa 9 - ... we have laid a sufficiently broad and deep foundation for that criticism of life, that knowledge of ourselves and the world, which constitutes culture.
Síđa 9 - The first, that a criticism of life is the essence of culture ; the second, that literature contains the materials which suffice for the construction of such a criticism. I think that we must all assent to the first proposition. For culture certainly means something quite different from learning or technical skill. It implies the possession of an ideal, and the habit of critically estimating the value of things by comparison with a theoretic standard.
Síđa 117 - By the mere light of reason it seems difficult to prove the immortality of the soul; the arguments for it are commonly derived either from metaphysical topics, or moral, or physical. But it is in reality the Gospel, and the Gospel alone, that has brought life and immortality to light.
Síđa 322 - On this doctrine of the extermination of an infinitude of connecting links, between the living and extinct inhabitants of the world, and at each successive period between the extinct and still older species, why is not every geological formation charged with such links? Why does not every collection of fossil remains afford plain evidence of the gradation and mutation of the forms of life?
Síđa 14 - The language of the monks and schoolmen seemed little better than gibberish to scholars fresh from Virgil and Cicero, and the study of Latin was placed upon a new foundation. Moreover, Latin itself ceased to afford the sole key to knowledge. The student who sought the highest thought of antiquity found only a second-hand reflection of it in Eoman literature, and turned his face to the full light of the Greeks.
Síđa 108 - The Doctrine of Phlogiston established, and that of the Composition of Water refuted.