Outline of the Evolution-philosophyD. Appleton, 1875 - 167 pages |
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Page 159 - Forms of Water/ by Professor Tyndall, is an interesting and instructive little volume, admirably printed and illustrated. Prepared expressly for this series, it is in some measure a guarantee of the excellence of the volumes that will follow, and an indication that the publishers will spare no pains to include in the series the freshest investigations of the best scientific minds.
Page 159 - ... from giving a fuller account of these suggestive essays, only because we are sure that our readers will find it worth their while to peruse the book for themselves ; and we sincerely hope that the forthcoming parts of the 'International Scientific Series
Page 159 - ... Law/ have we seen so many fruitful thoughts suggested in the course of a couple of hundred pages. ... To do justice to Mr. Bagehot's fertile book, would require a long article. With the best of intentions, we are conscious of having given but a sorry account of it in these brief paragraphs. But we hope we have said enough to commend it to the attention of the thoughtful leader."-
Page 161 - They have heard of changes in the science; the clash of the battle of old and new theories has stirred them from afar. The tidings, too, had come that the old had given way ; and little more than this they knew. . . . Prof. Cooke's ' New Chemistry ' must do wide service in bringing to close sight the little known and the longed for.
Page 124 - The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Page 155 - with that which you have called ' the elder,' I copy it out It runs as follows : " ' 1. Throughout the universe in general and in detail there is an unceasing redistribution of matter and motion.
Page 164 - The author of the present work, it is well known, stands at the head of those physiologists who have investigated the mechanism of animal dynamics — indeed, we may almost say that he has made the subject his own. By the originality of his conceptions, the ingenuity of his constructions, the skill of his analysis, and the perseverance of his investigations, he has surpassed all others in the power of unveiling the complex and intricate movements of animated beings."— Popular Science Monthly. XII....
Page 161 - For, to those advanced students who have kept well abreast of the chemical tide, it offers a calm philosophy. To those others, youngest of the class, who have emerged from the schools since new methods have prevailed, it presents a generalization, drawing to its use all the data, the relations of which the newly-fledged fact-seeker may but dimly perceive without its aid.