Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 42
... forces , give us sincerest lessons , day by day , whose meaning is un- limited . They educate both the Understanding and the Reason . Every property of matter is a school for the understanding , its solidity or re- sistance , its ...
... forces , give us sincerest lessons , day by day , whose meaning is un- limited . They educate both the Understanding and the Reason . Every property of matter is a school for the understanding , its solidity or re- sistance , its ...
Page 43
... forces . Proportioned to the impor- tance of the organ to be formed , is the extreme care with which its tuition is provided , -a care preter- mitted in no single case . What tedious training , day after day , year after year , never ...
... forces . Proportioned to the impor- tance of the organ to be formed , is the extreme care with which its tuition is provided , -a care preter- mitted in no single case . What tedious training , day after day , year after year , never ...
Page 74
... force of spirit ? When men are inno- ' A man is a god in ruins . cent , life shall be longer , and shall pass into the im- mortal as gently as we awake from dreams . Now , the world would be insane and rabid , if these dis ...
... force of spirit ? When men are inno- ' A man is a god in ruins . cent , life shall be longer , and shall pass into the im- mortal as gently as we awake from dreams . Now , the world would be insane and rabid , if these dis ...
Page 75
... force . He works on the world with his understand- ing alone . He lives in it and masters it by a pen- ny - wisdom ; and he that works most in it is but a half - man , and whilst his arms are strong and his digestion good , his mind is ...
... force . He works on the world with his understand- ing alone . He lives in it and masters it by a pen- ny - wisdom ; and he that works most in it is but a half - man , and whilst his arms are strong and his digestion good , his mind is ...
Page 76
... force , with reason as well as understand- ing . Such examples are , the traditions of miracles in the earliest antiquity of all nations ; the history of Jesus Christ ; the achievements of a principle , as in religious and political ...
... force , with reason as well as understand- ing . Such examples are , the traditions of miracles in the earliest antiquity of all nations ; the history of Jesus Christ ; the achievements of a principle , as in religious and political ...
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