University Extension: A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Interests of Popular Education, Volume 1J. Haseltine Shinn, 1891 |
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Page 227 - Little remains : but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
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Page 136 - ... population, while all over the country there are thoughtful persons who desire the same kind of teaching. It is for them also that this Series is designed. Its aim is to supply the general reader with the same kind of teaching as is given in the Lectures, and to reflect the spirit which has characterized the movement, viz.
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Page 8 - ... know ourselves in so far as we embody it in our institutions. The present spirit and methods of scientific investigation bear me witness that to know an individual we must study it in its history. It is a part of a process; we need to find its presuppositions in order to make it intelligible. Only in the perspective of its history can we see it so as to comprehend it as a whole.
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Page 235 - Europe — that an animal flayed, or a tree stripped of its bark, does not perish more surely than a land deprived of its trees.