 ... electricity,' and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk : but what is it ? What made it ? Whence comes it ? Whither goes it ? Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great...  Science Lectures for the People - Page 951874Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 pages
...the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate. 8 LECTURES ON HEROES. on which all science swims as a mere superficial film....inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. That great mystery of TIME, were there no other ; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1841 - 408 pages
...science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which all science swims as a mere superficial...inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. That great mystery of TIME, were there no other ; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1849 - 260 pages
...science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Neecience, whither we can never penetrate, on which all science swims as a mere superficial...inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called... | |
 | Mariner - 1851 - 86 pages
...deep, sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, — on which all science swims a mere superficial film. This world, after all our...— wonderful, inscrutable, magical, and more, to all who will think of it." To what, then, are the operations of nature to be attributed? — to what... | |
 | 1856 - 504 pages
...science that would hide from us the great, deep, sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which all science swims as a mere superficial...This world, after all our science and sciences, is si ill a miracle — wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more— to whosoever will think of it. Or... | |
 | 1853 - 638 pages
...can never know at all We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud of nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which all science swims as a mere superficial...magical and more, to whosoever will think of it."* We cheerfully admit, that man's daily necessities have acted as a stimulus to the advancement of physical... | |
 | Joseph B. Gross - 1856 - 414 pages
...science that would hide from us the great, deep, sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which all science swims as a mere superficial...miracle ; wonderful, inscrutable, magical, and more to whomsoever will 1,>iii/;,' of it." In the animal kingdom, especially, primeval man presumes he sees... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1858 - 412 pages
...science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which all science swims as a mere superficial...inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1859 - 702 pages
...Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film. Thii world, after all our science and sciences, is still...magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.' — Lecturet on Heroti, p. 10. It is, nevertheless, the case that science and extended study naturally... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 384 pages
...science that would hide from us the great, deep, sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which all science swims as a mere superficial...magical and more — to whosoever will think of it. Lectures on Heroes, p. 11. WHAT IS MADNESS. Witchcraft, and all manner of Spectre-work, and Demonology,... | |
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