Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... Greek and Latin words . It is specially , the poor man's science . But if you do not like it , study something else . Only study that as you must study geology ; proceeding from the known to the unknown by observation and experiment ...
... Greek and Latin words . It is specially , the poor man's science . But if you do not like it , study something else . Only study that as you must study geology ; proceeding from the known to the unknown by observation and experiment ...
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... Greek terms . They may be expressed in the simplest English , because they are discovered by simple common sense . And thus geology is ( or ought to be ) , in popular parlance , the people's science — the science by studying which , the ...
... Greek terms . They may be expressed in the simplest English , because they are discovered by simple common sense . And thus geology is ( or ought to be ) , in popular parlance , the people's science — the science by studying which , the ...
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Charles Kingsley. Greek , mathematics , scientific chemistry , can yet become - as far as his brain enables him - a truly scientific man . But how shall we learn science by mere common sense ? First . Always try to explain the unknown by ...
Charles Kingsley. Greek , mathematics , scientific chemistry , can yet become - as far as his brain enables him - a truly scientific man . But how shall we learn science by mere common sense ? First . Always try to explain the unknown by ...
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... in the East , spreading Westward gradually . The earlier Greek buildings are cyclopean , that is , of stone fitted together without mortar . The earlier Egyptian buildings , though the stones are ex- quisitely 112 [ v . TOWN GEOLOGY .
... in the East , spreading Westward gradually . The earlier Greek buildings are cyclopean , that is , of stone fitted together without mortar . The earlier Egyptian buildings , though the stones are ex- quisitely 112 [ v . TOWN GEOLOGY .
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... He must have got out of himself , and gone into the woods . When we remember that certain wise Greek philosophers could find no better explanation of dreaming than that the soul left the body , Ix . ] 215 POWER OF DREAMS .
... He must have got out of himself , and gone into the woods . When we remember that certain wise Greek philosophers could find no better explanation of dreaming than that the soul left the body , Ix . ] 215 POWER OF DREAMS .
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