 Creator, independent of us, our tastes, our needs, or our vainglory, we hardly need to speak ; for it is the very essence of a naturalist's faculty, the very tenure of his existence : and without truthfulness, science would be as impossible now as chivalry...  The Natural History Review - Page 91856Full view - About this book
 | Charles Kingsley - 1855 - 196 pages
...: and without truthfulness, science would be as impossible now as chivalry would have been of old. And last, but not least, the perfect naturalist should...have it, to a degree which makes them stand out most honorably in the midst of a self-seeking and mammonite generation, inclined to value everything by... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1855 - 202 pages
...existence: and without truthfulness, science would be as impossible now as chivalry would have been of old. And last, but not least, the perfect naturalist should...self-devotion; the desire to advance, not himself and his own feme or wealth, but knowledge and mankind. He should have this great virtue; and in spite of many shortcomings,... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1856 - 190 pages
...: and without truthfulness, science would be as impossible now as chivalry would have been of old. And last, but not least, the perfect naturalist should...naturalists as a class have it to a degree which makes ihem stand out most honourably in the midst of a self-seeking and mammonite generation, inclined to... | |
 | 1856 - 430 pages
...and without truthfulness, science would be as impossible now as chivalry wonld have been of old. " And last, but not least, the perfect naturalist should...his own fame or wealth, but knowledge and mankind." Such qualities, he declares, have distinguished scientific men. And we must certainly agree with him,... | |
 | 1857 - 528 pages
...existence ; and without truthfulness science would be as impossible now as chivalry would have been of old. And last, but not least, the perfect naturalist should...have it, to a degree which makes them stand out most honorably in the midst of a self-seeking and mammonite generation, inclined to value everything by... | |
 | 1857 - 526 pages
...science would be as impossible now as chivalry would have been of old. And last, but Bot least, th« perfect naturalist should have in him the very essence...have it, to a degree which makes them stand out most honorably in the midst of a self-seeking and mammonite generation, inclined to value everything by... | |
 | Watford Natural History Society and Hertfordshire Field Club - 1878 - 386 pages
...truth; for without truthfulness, science would be as impossible now as chivalry would have been of old. And last, but not least, the perfect naturalist should...his own fame or wealth, but knowledge and mankind. The spirit which gives freely, because it knows that it has received freely; which communicates knowledge... | |
 | 1880 - 346 pages
...GIOMcUI.' "The perfect naturalist should have in him the very essence of true chivalry, solf-devotion ; the desire to advance not himself and his own fame or wealth, but knowledge and mankind The spirit which gives freely, because it knows that it has received freely ; which communicates knowledge... | |
 | 1880 - 346 pages
...self-pleasing, into a pure and wholesome region of solemn joy and wonder."—CHARLES KINGSLBY in ' Glaucua.' " The perfect naturalist should have in him the very essence of true chivalry, self-devotion ; the desire to advance not himself and his own fame or wealth, but knowledge and mankind... | |
 | 1880 - 428 pages
...self-pleasing, into a pure and wholesome region of solemn joy and wonder." — CHARLES KINGSLEY in ' Glaucus.' " The perfect naturalist should have in him the very essence of true chivalry, self-devotion ; the desire to advance not himself and his own fame or wealth, but knowledge and mankind... | |
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