 | 1895 - 902 pages
...perform in his introductory address is to remind you of the salient points in the annals of science since last the association visited the town in which...impenetrable mystery. From age to age the strenuous labor of successive generations wins a small strip from the desert and pushes forward the boundary... | |
 | 1891 - 634 pages
...the Oxford Meeting of the British Association, August 8, 1894. We live in a small, bright oasis or knowledge, surrounded on all sides by a vast, unexplored...impenetrable mystery. From age to age the strenuous labor of successive generations wins a small strip from the desert and pushes forward the boundary... | |
 | 1894 - 742 pages
...Perhaps even he may learn the need of some intellectual modesty from the official assurance that " we live in a small bright oasis of knowledge, surrounded...a vast unexplored region of impenetrable mystery." The chancellor of England's greatest institution of learning, the president of the world's greatest... | |
 | Theophilus Bulkeley Hyslop - 1895 - 602 pages
...when he took a survey, not of our science, but of our ignorance. He pointed out, that we are living in a small bright oasis of knowledge, surrounded on...a vast unexplored region of impenetrable mystery. Among the scientific enigmas which still, at the end of the nineteenth century, defy solution, he included... | |
 | Church congress - 1896 - 610 pages
...and reasonable — use of knowledge, of which it cannot give in any way adequate or final account ? "We live in a small bright oasis of knowledge, surrounded...a vast unexplored region of impenetrable mystery." The words were spoken by Lord Salisbury from the chair of the British Association to describe what... | |
 | William Hurrell Mallock - 1903 - 312 pages
...other. Professor Huxley has said, in words which are the delight of the religious apologist, that " we live in a small bright oasis of knowledge, surrounded...region of impenetrable mystery. From age to age," he continues, " the strenuous labour of successive generations wins a small strip from the desert,... | |
 | William Hurrell Mallock - 1903 - 316 pages
...on all sides by a vast unexplored region of impenetrable mystery. From age to age," he continues, " the strenuous labour of successive generations wins...desert, and pushes forward the boundary of knowledge," but "the known " remains always finite, the " unknown " remains always infinite. Now it is perhaps... | |
 | 1906 - 660 pages
...greatest intellects can but dimly and partially apprehend it. ' We live,' says Professor Huxley, ' in a small bright oasis of knowledge, surrounded on...desert, and pushes forward the boundary of knowledge,' but the known remains always finite, the unknown always infinite. And why does Mr. Mallock reject our... | |
 | 1903 - 510 pages
...late Lord Salisbury that shows him to have been something of a philosopher as well as a statesman: "We live in a small, bright oasis of knowledge, surrounded...a vast unexplored region of impenetrable mystery, and from age to age tlhe strenuous labor of successive generations wins a small strip from the desert... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - 1894 - 1096 pages
...perform in his introductory address, is to remind you of the salient points in the annals of science since last the Association visited the town in which...it has its fascination as well as its uses — to torn our eyes to the undiscovered country which still remains to be won, to some of the stupendous... | |
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It will be more suitable to my capacity if I devote the few observations I have to make to a survey not of our science but of our ignorance. We live in a small bright oasis of knowledge surrounded on all sides by a vast unexplored region of impenetrable... 
