Autobiography and Selected EssaysHoughton Mifflin, 1909 - 138 sider |
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Side 98
... nettle owes its stinging property to the innumer- able stiff and needle - like , though exquisitely delicate , hairs which cover its surface . Each stinging - needle tapers from a broad base to a slender summit , which , though rounded ...
... nettle owes its stinging property to the innumer- able stiff and needle - like , though exquisitely delicate , hairs which cover its surface . Each stinging - needle tapers from a broad base to a slender summit , which , though rounded ...
Side 99
... nettle , dawns upon one ; and the comparison of such a protoplasm to a body with an in- ternal circulation , which has been put forward by an eminent physiologist , loses much of its startling charac- ter . Currents similar to those of ...
... nettle , dawns upon one ; and the comparison of such a protoplasm to a body with an in- ternal circulation , which has been put forward by an eminent physiologist , loses much of its startling charac- ter . Currents similar to those of ...
Side 101
... if they were independent organisms . The substance which is thus active is a mass of pro- toplasm , and its activity differs in detail , rather than in principle , from that of the protoplasm of the nettle ON THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF LIFE 101.
... if they were independent organisms . The substance which is thus active is a mass of pro- toplasm , and its activity differs in detail , rather than in principle , from that of the protoplasm of the nettle ON THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF LIFE 101.
Side 102
... nettle . Under sundry circumstances the corpuscle dies and becomes distended into a round mass , in the midst of which is seen a smaller spherical body , which existed , but was more or less hidden , in the living corpuscle , and is ...
... nettle . Under sundry circumstances the corpuscle dies and becomes distended into a round mass , in the midst of which is seen a smaller spherical body , which existed , but was more or less hidden , in the living corpuscle , and is ...
Side 103
... nettle hair , there lies a spheroidal nucleus . Careful examination further proves that the whole substance of the nettle is made up of a repetition of such masses of nucleated proto- plasm , each contained in a wooden case , which is ...
... nettle hair , there lies a spheroidal nucleus . Careful examination further proves that the whole substance of the nettle is made up of a repetition of such masses of nucleated proto- plasm , each contained in a wooden case , which is ...
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æsthetic ancient animal atolls believe Bernard de Jussieu body bottom called carbonate of lime carbonic acid chalk clear coast coccoliths coral polypes coral reefs covered Crania cretaceous crocodiles depth encircling reefs England English epoch essay existence fact faculty feet Flamborough Head fringing reef Globigerina hard and green human hundred Huxley Huxley's hypothesis improvement of natural kind lagoon laws less liberal education living matter London Lord Brouncker man's mankind mass ment mind Monte Nuovo natural knowledge naturalist nettle nitrogenous ocean particle Peyssonel phenomena philosopher PHYSICAL BASIS Piece of Chalk plague plant present protoplasm Radiolaria reason Réaumur red coral rock Royal Society scientific sea-bottom sea-urchin seaward selenography sentences musical skeletons species structure style subject-matter substance suppose surface things THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY thought thousand tion truth universe whole words writes wrote
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Side 40 - In other words, education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but men and their ways; and the fashioning of the affections and of the will into an earnest and loving desire to move in harmony with those laws.
Side 26 - As when in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful, when all the winds are laid, And every height comes out, and jutting peak And valley, and the immeasurable heavens Break open to their highest, and all the stars Shine, and the Shepherd gladdens in his heart...
Side 17 - Our business was (precluding matters of Theology and state affairs) to discourse and consider of Philosophical Enquiries, and such as related thereunto : as physick, anatomy, geometry, astronomy, navigation, staticks, magneticks, chymicks, mechanicks, and natural experiments ; with the state of these studies, as then cultivated at home and abroad.
Side 39 - Yet it is a very plain and elementary truth, that the life, the fortune, and the happiness of every one of us, and, more or less, of those who are connected with us, do depend upon our knowing something of the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than chess. It is a game which...
Side 111 - These new compounds, like the elementary bodies of which they are composed, are lifeless. But when they are brought together, under certain conditions they give rise to the still more complex body, protoplasm, and this protoplasm exhibits the phenomena of life. I see no break in this series of steps in molecular complication, \ and I am unable to understand why the language which is applicable / to any one term of the series may not be used to any of the others.
Side 42 - The object of what we commonly call education — that education in which man intervenes and which I shall distinguish as artificial education — is to make good these defects in Nature's methods; to prepare the child to receive Nature's education, neither incapably nor ignorantly, nor with wilful disobedience; and to understand the preliminary symptoms of her displeasure, without waiting for the box on the ear.
Side x - ... the one condition of success, your sole safeguard, is the moral worth and intellectual clearness of the individual citizen. Education cannot give these, but it may cherish them and bring them to the front in whatever station of society they are to be found; and the universities ought to be, and may be, the fortresses of the higher life of the nation.
Side 113 - It may seem a small thing to admit that the dull, vital actions of a fungus, or a foraminifer, are the properties of their protoplasm, and are the direct results of the nature of the matter of which they are composed.