Science and Education: EssaysD. Appleton, 1896 - 451 стор. |
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... question , therefore , would naturally arise - as common air can be wholly phlogisticated by combustion , and con- verted into a substance which will no longer support combustion , is it possible to get air that shall be less ...
... question , therefore , would naturally arise - as common air can be wholly phlogisticated by combustion , and con- verted into a substance which will no longer support combustion , is it possible to get air that shall be less ...
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... question for a moment , that while the Mathematician is busy with deductions from general propositions , the Biologist is more es- pecially occupied with observation , comparison , and those processes which lead to general proposi ...
... question for a moment , that while the Mathematician is busy with deductions from general propositions , the Biologist is more es- pecially occupied with observation , comparison , and those processes which lead to general proposi ...
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... questions which I set before you at starting , viz . What is the range and position of Physiological Science as a branch of knowledge , and what is its value as a means of mental dis- cipline ? Its subject - matter is a large moiety of ...
... questions which I set before you at starting , viz . What is the range and position of Physiological Science as a branch of knowledge , and what is its value as a means of mental dis- cipline ? Its subject - matter is a large moiety of ...
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... question— What is the practical value of physiological in- struction ? —might , one would think , be left to answer itself . On other grounds even , were mankind deserving of the title " rational , " which they arrogate to themselves ...
... question— What is the practical value of physiological in- struction ? —might , one would think , be left to answer itself . On other grounds even , were mankind deserving of the title " rational , " which they arrogate to themselves ...
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... the naturalist , and ask , not without a shrug , " What is the use of knowing all about these miserable animals - what bearing has it on human life ? " I will endeavour to answer that question . I take II OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCES 61.
... the naturalist , and ask , not without a shrug , " What is the use of knowing all about these miserable animals - what bearing has it on human life ? " I will endeavour to answer that question . I take II OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCES 61.
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Сторінка 142 - Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one great confederation, bound to a joint action and working to a common result ; and whose members have, for their proper outfit, a knowledge of Greek, Roman, and Eastern antiquity, and of one another.
Сторінка 385 - No religious catechism or religious formulary which is distinctive of any particular denomination shall be taught in the school.
Сторінка 144 - An army without weapons of precision, and with no particular base of operations, might more hopefully enter upon a campaign on the Rhine, than a man, devoid of...
Сторінка 396 - By the study of what other book could children be so much humanized and made to feel that each figure in that vast historical procession fills, like themselves, but a momentary space in the interval between two eternities ; and earns the blessings or the curses of all time, according to its effort to do good and hate evil, even as they also are earning their payment for their work...
Сторінка 412 - Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not...
Сторінка 209 - Are you really my son Esau, or not?" 22 So Jacob came closer to his father Isaac. When he touched him, he said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
Сторінка 150 - Or we come to propositions of such reach and magnitude as those which Professor Huxley delivers, when he says that the notions of our forefathers about the beginning and the end of the world were all wrong, and that nature is the expression of a definite order with which nothing interferes.
Сторінка 376 - Provided that no such minute of the Education Department, not in force at the time of the passing of this Act, shall be deemed to be in force until it has lain for not less than one month on the table of both Houses of Parliament.
Сторінка 86 - 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 ; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order ; ready, like a...
Сторінка 236 - Huxley was right when he said that "a man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.