Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... question , and that the one which pleases you ? That you do not take up your opinions at second hand , from some book or some newspaper , which after all only reflects your own feelings , your own opinions ? You should ask yourselves ...
... question , and that the one which pleases you ? That you do not take up your opinions at second hand , from some book or some newspaper , which after all only reflects your own feelings , your own opinions ? You should ask yourselves ...
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... question , while any question is sure to have two sides , or perhaps three or four ; and if you only see the side which suits you , day after day , month after month , you must needs become bigoted to it . Your thoughts must needs run ...
... question , while any question is sure to have two sides , or perhaps three or four ; and if you only see the side which suits you , day after day , month after month , you must needs become bigoted to it . Your thoughts must needs run ...
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... questions about you , save , first - Is he an honest student of Nature for her own sake ? And next - Is he a man who will not quarrel , or other- SC . wise behave in an unbrotherly fashion to his fellow- students PREFACE . 17.
... questions about you , save , first - Is he an honest student of Nature for her own sake ? And next - Is he a man who will not quarrel , or other- SC . wise behave in an unbrotherly fashion to his fellow- students PREFACE . 17.
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... at both sides of a question ; who , instead of making up their minds in haste like bigots and fanatics , wait like wise men , for more facts , and more thought about the facts . In one word , men who c 2 PREFACE . 19.
... at both sides of a question ; who , instead of making up their minds in haste like bigots and fanatics , wait like wise men , for more facts , and more thought about the facts . In one word , men who c 2 PREFACE . 19.
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... questions therefore , I say , I entreat you to cultivate the scientific spirit by which alone you can judge justly of those questions . I ask you to learn how to " conquer nature by obeying her , " as the great Lord Bacon said two ...
... questions therefore , I say , I entreat you to cultivate the scientific spirit by which alone you can judge justly of those questions . I ask you to learn how to " conquer nature by obeying her , " as the great Lord Bacon said two ...
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