Discovery: Or, The Spirit and Service of ScienceMacmillan and Company, limited, 1916 - 340 pages |
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... organic evolution , found equal pleasure in Nature to the end of his life ; and his chief regret was that he had not been able to contribute more to natural knowledge and human happiness . 66 As for myself , " he said , " I believe that ...
... organic evolution , found equal pleasure in Nature to the end of his life ; and his chief regret was that he had not been able to contribute more to natural knowledge and human happiness . 66 As for myself , " he said , " I believe that ...
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... organic life . Five hundred years before the commencement of the Christian era , Pytha- goras observed that the three angles of every plane triangle together make up two right - angles ; and this conclusion stands now as it did then ...
... organic life . Five hundred years before the commencement of the Christian era , Pytha- goras observed that the three angles of every plane triangle together make up two right - angles ; and this conclusion stands now as it did then ...
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... organic evolution and its causes . More than six hundred thousand different species of animals have been described , while about half that number of species of plants are known , and probably natural science has not yet on its registers ...
... organic evolution and its causes . More than six hundred thousand different species of animals have been described , while about half that number of species of plants are known , and probably natural science has not yet on its registers ...
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... organic natures , from fishes to mammals , and man at their head , were formed on one original type which still daily changes its form by propagation , " and Erasmus Darwin , who suggested how successive generations of an organism might ...
... organic natures , from fishes to mammals , and man at their head , were formed on one original type which still daily changes its form by propagation , " and Erasmus Darwin , who suggested how successive generations of an organism might ...
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... organic evolution better than any naturalist who preceded him , and he carried out the principle on a far larger scale and in greater detail than others had done , but his arguments were not convincing . It was reserved for Charles ...
... organic evolution better than any naturalist who preceded him , and he carried out the principle on a far larger scale and in greater detail than others had done , but his arguments were not convincing . It was reserved for Charles ...
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Page 44 - And Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying : " Here is a story-book Thy Father has written for thee." " Come, wander with me," she said, " Into regions yet untrod ; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God." And he wandered away and away With Nature, the dear old nurse, Who sang to him night and day The rhymes of the universe. And whenever the way seemed long, Or his heart began to fail, She would sing a more wonderful song, Or tell a more marvellous tale.
Page 277 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Page 15 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work, that, as a mechanism, it is capable of...
Page 15 - ... whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.
Page 44 - Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Page 292 - The heavens declare the glory of God : and the firmament sheweth his handy work. One day telleth another: and one night certifieth another. There is neither speech nor language : but their voices are heard among them. Their sound is gone out into all lands : and their words into the ends of the world.
Page 106 - He answered and said unto them, "When it is evening ye say, 'It will be fair weather; for the sky is red.
Page 202 - Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
Page 199 - I have already urged, the practice of that which is ethically best — what we call goodness or virtue — involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence.
Page 227 - THIS day relenting God Hath placed within my hand A wondrous thing; and God Be praised. At his command, Seeking His secret deeds With tears and toiling breath, I find thy cunning seeds, O million-murdering Death. I know this little thing A myriad men will save. O Death, where is thy sting? Thy victory, O Grave?