Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... theory , because you are as good as any man in practice , except those who are better than you in the same line , which is open to any and every man ; if you wish to have the inspiring and ennobling feeling of being a brother in a great ...
... theory , because you are as good as any man in practice , except those who are better than you in the same line , which is open to any and every man ; if you wish to have the inspiring and ennobling feeling of being a brother in a great ...
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... theories and your movements , draw " bills which nature will honour " -to use Mr. Carlyle's famous parable - because they are according to her unchanging laws , and not have them returned on your hands , as too many theorists ' are ...
... theories and your movements , draw " bills which nature will honour " -to use Mr. Carlyle's famous parable - because they are according to her unchanging laws , and not have them returned on your hands , as too many theorists ' are ...
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... theories are not , or need not be , wrapped up in obscure Latin and 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 ...
... theories are not , or need not be , wrapped up in obscure Latin and 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 ...
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... , by I know not what of fancied cataclysms and convulsions of nature ; explaining the unknown by the still more unknown , till some of their geological But theories were no more rational , because no more 32 [ 1 . TOWN GEOLOGY .
... , by I know not what of fancied cataclysms and convulsions of nature ; explaining the unknown by the still more unknown , till some of their geological But theories were no more rational , because no more 32 [ 1 . TOWN GEOLOGY .
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Charles Kingsley. But theories were no more rational , because no more founded on known facts , than that of the New Zealand Maories , who hold that some god , when fishing , fished up their islands out of the bottom of the ocean . a ...
Charles Kingsley. But theories were no more rational , because no more founded on known facts , than that of the New Zealand Maories , who hold that some god , when fishing , fished up their islands out of the bottom of the ocean . a ...
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