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" At present it seems to me that those who are for giving to natural knowledge, as they call it, the chief place in the education of the majority of mankind leave one important thing out of their account — the constitution of human nature. "
Discourses in America - Page 100
by Matthew Arnold - 1896 - 207 pages
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 36; Volume 99

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1882 - 920 pages
...tentative inquiry, which befits a being of dim faculties and bounded knowledge, is the tone I would wish to take and not to depart from. At present it seems to...some facts not at all recondite, very far from it ; facts capable of being stated in the simplest possible fashion, and to which, if I so state them,...
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The Nineteenth Century, Volume 12

1882 - 1050 pages
...tentative inquiry, which befits a being of dim faculties and bounded knowledge, is the tone I would wish to take and not to depart from. At present it seems to...some facts not at all recondite, very far from it ; facts capable of being stated in tie simplest possible fashion, and to which, if I so state them,...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science ..., Volume 36; Volume 99

1882 - 884 pages
...tentative inquiry, which befits a being of dim faculties and bounded knowledge, is the tone I would wish to take and not to depart from. At present it seems to...some facts not at all recondite, very far from it ; facts capable of being stated in the simplest possible fashion, and to which, if 1 so state them,...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 21

1882 - 922 pages
...tentative inquiry, which befits a being of dim faculties and bounded knowledge, is the tone I would wish to take and not to depart from. At present it seems to...some facts not at all recondite, very far from it ; facts capable of being stated in the simplest possible fashion, and to which, if I so state them,...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volume 83

Henry Allon - 1886 - 550 pages
...tentative inquiry, which befits a being of dim faculties and bounded knowledge, is the tone I would wish to take, and not to depart from. At present it seems...some facts not at all recondite, very far from it — facts capable of being stated in the simplest possible fashion, and to which, if I so state them,...
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Essays on Educational Reformers

Robert Hebert Quick - 1890 - 618 pages
...either by young or old. As Matthew Arnold has said, "those who are for giving to natural knowledge the chief place in the education of the majority of...their account — the constitution of human nature." " We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love, And e'en as these are well and wisely fixed, In dignity of...
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Essays on Educational Reformers

Robert Hebert Quick - 1890 - 612 pages
...either by young or old. As Matthew Arnold has said, "those who are for giving to natural knowledge the chief place in the education of the majority of mankind leave one important thing out of their account—the constitution of human nature." " We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love, And e'en as these...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 21

1882 - 900 pages
...tentative inquiry, which befits a being of dim faculties and bounded knowledge, is the tone I would wish to take and not to depart from. At present it seems to...that those who are for giving to natural knowledge, aa they call it, the chief place in the education of the majority of mankind leave one important thing...
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Selections from the Prose Writings of Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 456 pages
...inquiry, which befits a being of dim faculties and bounded knowledge, is the tone I 30 would wish to take and not to depart from. At present it seems to...some facts not at all recondite, very far from it ; facts capable of being stated in the 5 simplest possible fashion, and to which, if I so state them,...
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Selections from the Prose Writings of Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 464 pages
...inquiry, which befits a being of dim faculties and bounded knowledge, is the tone I 30 would wish to take and not to depart from. At present it seems to...leave one important thing out of their account : the constitutiqn_of human nature. But I put this forward on the strength of some facts not at all recondite,...
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