Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... laws , which I have tried to set forth in this book ; and these only require , for the learning of them , the exercise of his own observation and common sense . I have not tried to make this a handbook of geo- logical facts . Such a ...
... laws , which I have tried to set forth in this book ; and these only require , for the learning of them , the exercise of his own observation and common sense . I have not tried to make this a handbook of geo- logical facts . Such a ...
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... laws and facts of science will be looked on as a defect , only second to ignorance of the primary laws of religion and morality . I speak strongly , but deliberately . It does seem to me strange , to use the mildest word , that people ...
... laws and facts of science will be looked on as a defect , only second to ignorance of the primary laws of religion and morality . I speak strongly , but deliberately . It does seem to me strange , to use the mildest word , that people ...
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... laws of the universe , which ( whether we be conscious of them or not ) are all around us , like walls of iron and of adamant - say rather , like some vast machine , ruthless though beneficent , among the wheels of which if we entangle ...
... laws of the universe , which ( whether we be conscious of them or not ) are all around us , like walls of iron and of adamant - say rather , like some vast machine , ruthless though beneficent , among the wheels of which if we entangle ...
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... laws , and not have them returned on your hands , as too many theorists ' are , with " no effects " written across their backs . Take my advice for yourselves , dear readers , and for your children after you ; for , believe me , I am ...
... laws , and not have them returned on your hands , as too many theorists ' are , with " no effects " written across their backs . Take my advice for yourselves , dear readers , and for your children after you ; for , believe me , I am ...
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... laws of nature . They will rule ; and their rule , if they are true to themselves , will be one of health and wealth , and peace , of prudence and of justice . For they alone will be able to wield for the benefit of man the brute forces ...
... laws of nature . They will rule ; and their rule , if they are true to themselves , will be one of health and wealth , and peace , of prudence and of justice . For they alone will be able to wield for the benefit of man the brute forces ...
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