 History warns us, however, that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions...  Science - Síđa 15 breytti - 1880Heildartexta - Um bókina
 | Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley - 1900 - 586 síđur
...inanities have before now swollen to portentous size in the course of twenty years." " History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions." There was actual danger lest a new generation should " accept the main doctrines of the Origin of Species... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley - 1900 - 584 síđur
...inanities have before now swollen to portentous size in the course of twenty years." " History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions." There was actual danger lest a new generation should " accept the main doctrines of the Origin of Species... | |
 | Lady Victoria Welby - 1903 - 368 síđur
...essay delivered twenty-one years after the publication of the Origin of Species), " History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin...as heresies and to end as superstitions ; and, as the matter now stands, it is hardly rash to anticipate that, in another twenty years, the new generation,... | |
 | Caleb Williams Saleeby - 1907 - 392 síđur
...opportunity of pointing the moral here. Let us take a lesson to ourselves. "History warns us," says Huxley, "that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions." This is one of that small band of epigrams which are at once profound and true. Now the doctrine that... | |
 | Brander Matthews - 1907 - 328 síđur
...to progress as it is false to the scientific spirit itself. "History warns us," so Huxley declared, "that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions." THE growth of the scientific spirit is not more evident in the nineteenth century than the spread of... | |
 | Jack London - 1910 - 332 síđur
...Published March, 1910. J. 8. Cashing Co. — Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., USA " History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions." — HUXLEY. 5-. CONTENTS REVOLUTION ........ I THE SOMNAMBULISTS . . . . . . . 39 THE DIGNITY OF DOLLARS... | |
 | American Microscopical Society - 1912 - 84 síđur
...blank verse. In conclusion, let me quote Huxley, from an address written in 1880: "History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin...the new generation, educated under the influences of 14. Wolff refers to "the episode of Darwinism" and suggests that our attitude toward him should be... | |
 | American Microscopical Society - 1912 - 384 síđur
...blank verse. In conclusion, let me quote Huxley, from an address written in 1880: "History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstit:ons ; and, as matters now stand, it is hardly rash to anticipate that in another twenty years... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1914 - 1516 síđur
...Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. The coming Age of the Origin of Species. It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. Ibid. Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. Animal Automatism.... | |
 | James Francis Abbott - 1914 - 370 síđur
...accumulation of data on which he based his generalization, and he was not unaware 1 "History warns us, that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heiesies and to end as superstitions; and, as matters now stand, it is hardly rash to anticipate that,... | |
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