Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... common sense . I have not tried to make this a handbook of geo- logical facts . Such a guide ( and none better ) the young man will find in Sir Charles Lyell's " Student's Elements of Geology . " I have tried rather to teach the method ...
... common sense . I have not tried to make this a handbook of geo- logical facts . Such a guide ( and none better ) the young man will find in Sir Charles Lyell's " Student's Elements of Geology . " I have tried rather to teach the method ...
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... common sense . It requires fewer difficult experiments , and expensive apparatus . It requires less previous knowledge of other sciences , whether pure or mixed ; at least in its rudimentary stages . It is more free from long and ...
... common sense . It requires fewer difficult experiments , and expensive apparatus . It requires less previous knowledge of other sciences , whether pure or mixed ; at least in its rudimentary stages . It is more free from long and ...
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... common sense : they have not thriven by common sense , because they have not used their common sense according to that regulated method which is called science . In no age , in no country , as yet , have the majority of mankind been ...
... common sense : they have not thriven by common sense , because they have not used their common sense according to that regulated method which is called science . In no age , in no country , as yet , have the majority of mankind been ...
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... common sense , that the vegetable wealth of the world is no more ex- hausted than its mineral wealth . Exhausted ? Not half of it - I believe not a tenth of it - is yet known . Could I show you the wealth which I have seen in a single ...
... common sense , that the vegetable wealth of the world is no more ex- hausted than its mineral wealth . Exhausted ? Not half of it - I believe not a tenth of it - is yet known . Could I show you the wealth which I have seen in a single ...
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... common sense well regulated . But then it is well regulated ; and how precious it is , if you can but get it . The art of seeing , the art of knowing what you see ; the art of comparing , of perceiving true likenesses and true ...
... common sense well regulated . But then it is well regulated ; and how precious it is , if you can but get it . The art of seeing , the art of knowing what you see ; the art of comparing , of perceiving true likenesses and true ...
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