 Or we come to propositions of such reach and magnitude as those which Professor Huxley delivers, when he says that the notions of our forefathers about the beginning and the end of the world were all wrong, and that nature is the expression of a definite...  Science and Education: Essays - 150. oldalszerző: Thomas Henry Huxley - 1896 - 451 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | James Platt - 1881 - 226 oldal
...this is certain, — by Nature is implied a definite order, with which nothing interferes ; therefore, the chief business of mankind is to learn that order, and govern themselves accordingly. You can have no better ideal than the study of the beautiful and wonderful adaptations of Nature, as... | |
 | 1881 - 648 oldal
...the material universe, aud that the world is not subordinated to man's use. It is even more certa n that nature is the expression of a definite order, with which nothing interferes, aud that the chief business of mankind is to learn that order, and govern themselves accordingly. Moreover,... | |
 | Joseph William Reynolds - 1881 - 482 oldal
...so also is the continuance. Professor Huxley said, at the opening of Sir Josiah Mason's College, " Nature is the expression of a definite order with which nothing interferes." Such a statement, even if true, can never be verified ; and, as it is not less opposed to science than... | |
 | 1882 - 1050 oldal
...the notions of our forefathers about the beginning and the end of the world were all •wrong, and that nature is the expression of a definite order with •which nothing interferes. Interesting, indeed, these results of science are, important they are, and we should all be acquainted... | |
 | 1882 - 884 oldal
...that the notions of our forefathers about the beginning and the end of the world were all wrong, and that nature is the expression of a definite order with which nothing interferes. Interesting, indeed, these results of science are, important they are, and we should all be acquainted... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1882 - 920 oldal
...that the notions of our forefathers about the beginning and the end of the world were all wrong, and that nature is the expression of a definite order with which nothing interferes. Interesting, indeed, these results of science are, important they are, and we should all be acquainted... | |
 | James Platt - 1883 - 538 oldal
...this is certain,—by nature is implied a definite order, with which nothing interferes; therefore, the chief business of mankind is to learn that order, and govern themselves accordingly. You can have no better ideal than the study of the beautiful and wonderful adaptations of nature, as... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1885 - 234 oldal
...order, but that it could be, and constantly was, altered.' But for us now, continues Professor Huxley, ' the notions of the beginning and the end of the world...definite order, with which nothing interferes.' ' And yet,' he cries, ' the purely classical education advocated by the representatives of the humanists... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1885 - 234 oldal
...that the notions of our forefathers about the beginning and the end of the world were all wrong, and that nature is the expression of a definite order with which nothing interferes. Interesting, indeed, these results of science are, important they are, and we should all of us be acquainted... | |
 | 1889 - 656 oldal
...certain," — more certain, namely than what he had affirmed in the immediately preceding sentence, — " that nature is the expression of a definite order with which nothing interferes." In another lecture he says : " No physical geologist now dreams of seeking, outside the range of known... | |
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