Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 42
... labor , climate , food , locomo- tion , the animals , the mechanical 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 ...
... labor , climate , food , locomo- tion , the animals , the mechanical 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 ...
Page 78
... labor , sleep , fear , fortune , are known to you . Learn that none of these things is superficial , but that each phenom- enon has its roots in the faculties and affections of the mind . Whilst the abstract question occupies your ...
... labor , sleep , fear , fortune , are known to you . Learn that none of these things is superficial , but that each phenom- enon has its roots in the faculties and affections of the mind . Whilst the abstract question occupies your ...
Page 83
... labor . We do not meet for games of strength or skill , for the recitation of histories , tragedies , and odes , like the ancient Greeks ; for parliaments of love and poesy , like the Troubadours ; nor for the advancement of sci- ence ...
... labor . We do not meet for games of strength or skill , for the recitation of histories , tragedies , and odes , like the ancient Greeks ; for parliaments of love and poesy , like the Troubadours ; nor for the advancement of sci- ence ...
Page 85
... labor to embrace all the other laborers . But , unfortunately , this original unit , this fountain of power , has been so distributed to multitudes , has been so minutely subdivided and peddled out , that it is spilled into drops , and ...
... labor to embrace all the other laborers . But , unfortunately , this original unit , this fountain of power , has been so distributed to multitudes , has been so minutely subdivided and peddled out , that it is spilled into drops , and ...
Page 94
... labor and invention , the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion . Every sentence is doubly significant , and the sense of our author is as broad as the world . We then see , what is always true , that as ...
... labor and invention , the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion . Every sentence is doubly significant , and the sense of our author is as broad as the world . We then see , what is always true , that as ...
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