The True Aim in Scientific Education: A Paper Read Before the Meeting of the Southern Educational Association, Atlanta, Georgia, December 31, 1908St. Louis University, 1909 - 39 síður |
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Síða 11 - The scientific man has above all things, to strive at self -elimination in his judgments, to provide an argument which is as true for each individual mind as for his own.
Síða 15 - ... the image of Him who in the beginning created, not only the heaven and the earth, but the materials of which heaven and earth consist.
Síða 29 - On the other hand, if we consider the whole universe, the mind refuses to look at it as the outcome of chance — that is, without design or purpose.
Síða 11 - Men who devote their lives to investigation cultivate a love of truth for its own sake, and endeavor instinctively to clear up, and not, as is too often the object in business and politics, to obscure, a difficult question. So far the opinion of a scientific worker may have a special value ; but I do not think that he has a claim, superior to that of other educated men, to assume the attitude of a prophet.
Síða 23 - I venture to repeat what I have said before, that, so far as the animal world is concerned, evolution is no longer a speculation, but a statement of historical fact. It takes its place alongside of those accepted truths which must be reckoned with by philosophers of all schools. Thus when, on the first day of October next, the
Síða 29 - We do not know very much about evolution at all — in this field we are just at the very beginning of what deserves the name of exact knowledge." "Science" has sinned grievously in two ways. She has given out speculation as well-founded theory, and even as "empirical facts ;" and she has taken sides in an anti-religious warfare.
Síða 27 - University, Montreal, in reviewing the subject of evolution for Appleton's Encyclopedia, says at the end of his article: "The vague and Indefinite application of the term evolution to all these modes of development and to their innumerable and complicated causes and determinations has perhaps more than anything else tended to disgust men of common sense with this protean and intangible philosophy, and to divorce it more and more from the alliance of rigid science. On the other hand, Its vague and...
Síða 9 - ... becomes to him a toy, and his effort to discover something new becomes research in Pure Science. It is useless to attempt to advance Science until one has mastered the science; he must step to the front before his blows can tell in the strife. Furthermore, I do not believe anybody can be thorough in any department of Science, without wishing to advance it. In the study of what is known, in the reading of the scientific journals, and the discussions therein contained of the current scientific...
Síða 19 - ... evidence of such a thing as spontaneous generation; and many prominent biologists are departing from materialistic views and adopting tbe old doctrine that there is a vital principle In plants and animals entirely distinct from physical and chemical forces. In support of this latter statement, Prof. Henry Osborn, Director of the American Museum of Natural History, said five years ago: "Quite a school of young natural philosophers In Germany are reviving the old teleological and vltalistlc theory...
Síða 15 - Let us begin by stating at once that we assume, as absolutely self-evident, the existence of a Deity who is the Creator of all things.