Science and Culture: And Other EssaysMacmillan, 1888 - 349 síđur |
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Síđa 138
... animal and vegetable remains imbedded in the rocks which compose the surface ... animal and vegetable life , just as frost on a window - pane ... spirit - rappers , somebody has not perceived the easy avenue to nonsensical ...
... animal and vegetable remains imbedded in the rocks which compose the surface ... animal and vegetable life , just as frost on a window - pane ... spirit - rappers , somebody has not perceived the easy avenue to nonsensical ...
Síđa 210
... animal spirits " as " réfléchis , " 1 from the sensory into the motor nerves . And that this use of the word " reflected " was no mere accident , but that the importance and appropriateness of the idea it suggests was fully understood ...
... animal spirits " as " réfléchis , " 1 from the sensory into the motor nerves . And that this use of the word " reflected " was no mere accident , but that the importance and appropriateness of the idea it suggests was fully understood ...
Síđa 211
... animal spirits , without the intervention of the soul , may take their course towards certain muscles , rather than towards others , and thus move the limbs , as I shall prove by an example . If some one moves his hand rapidly towards ...
... animal spirits , without the intervention of the soul , may take their course towards certain muscles , rather than towards others , and thus move the limbs , as I shall prove by an example . If some one moves his hand rapidly towards ...
Síđa 213
... animal spirits , on the occurrence of a sensation , and that the part of the brain thus stretched , being imperfectly elastic , does not return to exactly its previous condition , but remains more dis- tensible than it was before ...
... animal spirits , on the occurrence of a sensation , and that the part of the brain thus stretched , being imperfectly elastic , does not return to exactly its previous condition , but remains more dis- tensible than it was before ...
Síđa 215
... spirit , or the soul , does not directly move the limbs , but only determines the course of that very subtle liquid which is called the animal spirits , which , running continually from the heart by the brain into the muscles , is the ...
... spirit , or the soul , does not directly move the limbs , but only determines the course of that very subtle liquid which is called the animal spirits , which , running continually from the heart by the brain into the muscles , is the ...
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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.