| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1859 - 618 pages
...reflective powers : in which sense, indeed, all orders of activity are antagonistic to each other. But it is not true that the facts of science are unpoetical...necessarily unfriendly to the exercise of imagination or the love of the beautiful. On the contrary, science opens up realms of poetry where to the unscientific... | |
| 1859 - 620 pages
...reflective powers : in which sense, indeed, all orders of activity are antagonistic to each other. But it is not true that the facts of science are unpoetical...necessarily unfriendly to the exercise of imagination or the love of the beautiful. On the contrary, science opens up realms of poetry where to the unscientific... | |
| 1872 - 900 pages
...reflective powers : in which sense, indeed, all orders of activity are antagonistic to each other. But it is not true that the facts of science are unpoetical...necessarily unfriendly to the exercise of imagination or the love of the beautiful. On the contrary, science opens up realms of poetry where to the unscientific... | |
| 1890 - 900 pages
...around them, and far from being dry and unromantic. " Science," to use the words of Mr. Herbert Spencer, "opens up realms of poetry where to the unscientific all is a "blank." Science properly taught is most valuable to children, in that it encourages a spirit of inquiry and... | |
| James Leitch - 1876 - 332 pages
...married to science that the highest results can be produced. In fact, science is in itself poetic, and opens up realms of poetry where, to the unscientific, all is a blank. In proof read Hugh Miller's works on geology, or Mr. Lewes's " Sea-side Studies." What additional interest... | |
| 1889 - 1088 pages
...them, and far from being dry and unromantic. ' Science,' to use the words of Mr. Herbert Spencer, ' opens up realms of poetry where to the unscientific all is a blank.' Science properly taught is most valuable to children, in that it encourages a spirit of inquiry and... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1884 - 130 pages
...reflective powers ; in which sense, indeed, all orders of activity are antagonistic to each other. But it is not true that the facts of science are unpoetical:...necessarily unfriendly to the exercise of imagination or the love of the beautiful. On the contrary science opens up realms of poetry where to the unscientific... | |
| P. Garrett - 1888 - 952 pages
...but science is itself poetic. The current opinion that science and poetry are opposed is a delusion. On the contrary science opens up realms of poetry...vividly, than others, the poetry of their subjects. Whoever will dip into Hugh Miller's works on geology, or read Mr. Lewes' " Seaside Studies," will perc-eive... | |
| 1889 - 1264 pages
...them, and far from being dry and unromantic. ' Science,' to use the words of Mr. Herbert Spencer, ' opens up realms of poetry where to the unscientific all is a blank.' Science properly taught is most valuable to children, in that it encourages a spirit of inquiry and... | |
| 1894 - 916 pages
...reflective powers; in which sense, indeed, all orders of activity are antagonistic to each other. But it the green lizards hide themselves in the hedges."...overhead, were waving to and fro poplars and elms; and or the love of the beautiful. On the contrary science opens up realms of poetry where to the unscientific... | |
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