 Nothing, then, can be more unfounded than the objection which has been taken in limine, by persons, well meaning perhaps, certainly narrow-minded, against the study of natural philosophy, and, indeed, against all science, — that it fosters in its cultivators...  The American Library of Useful Knowledge - Page 2711831 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1831 - 602 pages
...struggle, and give a new hope to mankind by the new victory of their freedom ! NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. NOTHING can be more unfounded than the objection which has been taken, in litnine, by persons, well meaning perhaps, certainly narrow-minded, against the study of natural philosophy,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1831 - 570 pages
...— one of the finest essays on the moral conduct of the intellect winch has ever been produced. ' Nothing, then, can "be more unfounded than the objection...narrow-minded, against the study of natural philosophy, — that it fosters in its cultivators an undue and overweening self-conceit, leads them to doubt the... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1831 - 906 pages
...communicate no idea. The author thus, on a broad scale, defends the study of natural philosophy. " Nothing, then, can be more unfounded than the objection which has been taken, in lit. ilnc. by persons, well meaning perhaps, certainly narrow-minded, against the study of natural... | |
 | 1832 - 872 pages
...way, endowed with acute senses and higher faculties, he shall drink deep at tliat fountain of benefit, wisdom, for which the slight taste obtained on earth, has given him so keen a relish." Hertchel. Introduction to the Study of Natural Philosophy. ÏUbuto. The Cyclopedia of Practical Medicine.... | |
 | 1834 - 512 pages
...intellect falls hack on itself in utter hopelessness of arriving at an end."—p. 4. And again:— " Nothing, then, can be more unfounded than the objection...study of natural philosophy, and indeed against all science,—that it fosters in its cultivators an undue and overweening self-conceit, leads them to... | |
 | 1837 - 574 pages
...the present subject. After showing that, after all, man is but a being "darkly wise," he proceeds: " Nothing, then, can be more unfounded than the objection...against the study of natural philosophy, and indeed ao-ainst all science,—that it fosters in its cultivators an undue and O overweening self-conceit,... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...endowed with acuter senses, and higher faculties, he shall drink deep at that fountain of beneficent wisdom for which the slight taste obtained on earth has given him so keen a relish ? 'el' ' ,.,,..:. THE LAWS OF NATURE.— Arnott. ' Acquaintance with the laws of nature has been very... | |
 | William Buckland - 1837 - 646 pages
...we ought not to ex* Bacon De Augm. Scient. Lib. IX. ch. i. t " Nothing,'' says Sir IFW Herschel, " can be more unfounded than the objection which has been taken in limine, by persons, well-meaning perhaps, certainly narrow minded, against the study of natural philosophy, and indeed... | |
 | 1831 - 602 pages
...— one of the finest essays on the moral conduct of the intellect which has ever been produced. ' Nothing, then, can be more unfounded than the objection...narrow-minded, against the study of natural philosophy, — that it fosters in its cultivators an undue and overweening self-conceit, leads them to doubt the... | |
 | 1839 - 532 pages
...getting the picture, but you shall muke a copy for me." ON THE STUDY OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. NOTHING can be more unfounded than the objection which has...narrow-minded, against the study of natural philosophy : that it fosters in its cultivators an undue and overweening self-conceit ; leads them to doubt the... | |
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