Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... human being , then we must acquire something of that inductive habit of mind . which the study of Natural Science gives . It is , after all , as Professor Huxley says , only common sense well regulated . But then it is well regulated ...
... human being , then we must acquire something of that inductive habit of mind . which the study of Natural Science gives . It is , after all , as Professor Huxley says , only common sense well regulated . But then it is well regulated ...
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... history of it , which we call geology , would be a mag- These Lectures were delivered to the members of the Natural Science Class at Chester in 1871 . nificent epic poem , were there only any human interest THE SOIL OF THE FIELD.
... history of it , which we call geology , would be a mag- These Lectures were delivered to the members of the Natural Science Class at Chester in 1871 . nificent epic poem , were there only any human interest THE SOIL OF THE FIELD.
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Charles Kingsley. nificent epic poem , were there only any human interest in it ; did it deal with creatures more like ourselves than stones , and bones , and the dead relics of plants and beasts . Whether there be no human interest in ...
Charles Kingsley. nificent epic poem , were there only any human interest in it ; did it deal with creatures more like ourselves than stones , and bones , and the dead relics of plants and beasts . Whether there be no human interest in ...
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... human common sense can be depended on , that the great majority of these stones come from the Lake mountains , sixty or seventy miles north of Liverpool ? I think your common sense will tell you that these pebbles are not mere ...
... human common sense can be depended on , that the great majority of these stones come from the Lake mountains , sixty or seventy miles north of Liverpool ? I think your common sense will tell you that these pebbles are not mere ...
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... human beings , and gives men intellects which are worthless for even the simplest work . Those shells must mean that that mountain , and therefore the mountains round it , must have been once fourteen hundred feet at least lower than ...
... human beings , and gives men intellects which are worthless for even the simplest work . Those shells must mean that that mountain , and therefore the mountains round it , must have been once fourteen hundred feet at least lower than ...
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