Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... young men of the city of Chester . But it does not deal , in its present form , with the geology of the neighbourhood of Chester only . I have tried so to recast it , that any townsman , at least in the manu- facturing districts of ...
... young men of the city of Chester . But it does not deal , in its present form , with the geology of the neighbourhood of Chester only . I have tried so to recast it , that any townsman , at least in the manu- facturing districts of ...
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... young man will find in Sir Charles Lyell's " Student's Elements of Geology . " I have tried rather to teach the method of geology , than its facts ; to furnish the student with a key to all geology , rough indeed and rudimentary , but ...
... young man will find in Sir Charles Lyell's " Student's Elements of Geology . " I have tried rather to teach the method of geology , than its facts ; to furnish the student with a key to all geology , rough indeed and rudimentary , but ...
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... young men to learn Natural Science at all ? What good will the right understanding of geology , or of astronomy , or of chemistry , or of the plants or animals which they meet - what good , I say , will that do them ? In the first place ...
... young men to learn Natural Science at all ? What good will the right understanding of geology , or of astronomy , or of chemistry , or of the plants or animals which they meet - what good , I say , will that do them ? In the first place ...
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... young I was very much of what I suspect is their opinion . I used to think one could get perfect freedom , and social reform , and all that I wanted , by altering the arrangements of society and legislation ; by constitutions , and Acts ...
... young I was very much of what I suspect is their opinion . I used to think one could get perfect freedom , and social reform , and all that I wanted , by altering the arrangements of society and legislation ; by constitutions , and Acts ...
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... young readers to help towards making that dream a fact , by becoming ( as many of them as feel the justice of my words ) honest and earnest students of Natural Science . But now why should I , as a clergyman , interest myself specially ...
... young readers to help towards making that dream a fact , by becoming ( as many of them as feel the justice of my words ) honest and earnest students of Natural Science . But now why should I , as a clergyman , interest myself specially ...
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