 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...  Readings from Huxley - Side 121af Thomas Henry Huxley - 1920 - 160 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | James Platt - 1881 - 226 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 - 884 sider
...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... | |
 | 1882 - 1050 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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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