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... tion from its proper work to uncalled - for polemics . It vitiates the impartiality of judgment and equanimity of temperament which are required of it . Moreover , it is only , I venture to say , when science can gain the inspira- tion ...
... tion from its proper work to uncalled - for polemics . It vitiates the impartiality of judgment and equanimity of temperament which are required of it . Moreover , it is only , I venture to say , when science can gain the inspira- tion ...
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... tion , as the expression of man's spiritual nature , would be just a part of the facts which science is to study and systematize . The sentiments of gratitude and aspira- tion , the peculiarities of worship , the forms of belief which ...
... tion , as the expression of man's spiritual nature , would be just a part of the facts which science is to study and systematize . The sentiments of gratitude and aspira- tion , the peculiarities of worship , the forms of belief which ...
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James Thompson Bixby. tion of a butterfly . Nay , they are the noblest and the most significant of phenomena , and science could never claim to be complete if it did not receive them as a subject of inquiry and systematization . The ...
James Thompson Bixby. tion of a butterfly . Nay , they are the noblest and the most significant of phenomena , and science could never claim to be complete if it did not receive them as a subject of inquiry and systematization . The ...
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... tion in the fact that the only considerable treatises upon scientific method , or the principles of physical inquiry which have been written in the present century , Mill's " Logic of the Inductive Sciences , " Whewell's " Philo- sophy ...
... tion in the fact that the only considerable treatises upon scientific method , or the principles of physical inquiry which have been written in the present century , Mill's " Logic of the Inductive Sciences , " Whewell's " Philo- sophy ...
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... ” — ( Dr . Carpenter's Address at Brighton , in 1872 , as President of the British Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science . ) that both the scientific and the religious worlds have given Causes of Actual Antagonism . 29.
... ” — ( Dr . Carpenter's Address at Brighton , in 1872 , as President of the British Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science . ) that both the scientific and the religious worlds have given Causes of Actual Antagonism . 29.
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Page 128 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.
Page 64 - If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number'} No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
Page 201 - For by science I understand all knowledge which rests upon evidence and reasoning of a like character to that which claims our assent to ordinary scientific propositions. And if any one is able to make good the assertion that his theology rests upon valid evidence and sound reasoning, then it appears to me that such theology will take its place as a part of science.
Page 158 - science of political economy.' There is no such science. There are no rules on the subject so fixed and invariable as that their aggregate constitutes a science.
Page 198 - ... us with a conviction that the truth of our hypothesis is certain. No accident could give rise to such an extraordinary coincidence. No false supposition could, after being adjusted to one class of phenomena, exactly represent a different class, where the agreement was unforeseen and uncontemplated.
Page 3 - Science was Faith once; Faith were Science now, Would she but lay her bow and arrows by And arm her with the weapons of the time.
Page 110 - ... an infinitude of silence. The phenomena of matter and force lie within our intellectual range, and as far as they reach we will at all hazards push our inquiries. But behind, and above, and around all, the real mystery of this universe lies unsolved, and, as far as we are concerned, is incapable of solution.
Page 56 - For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things which are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.
Page 173 - Far from these world-wide opinions being arbitrary or conventional products, it is seldom even justifiable to consider their uniformity among distant races as proving communication of any sort. They are doctrines answering in the most forcible way to the plain evidence of men's senses, as interpreted by a fairly consistent and rational primitive philosophy.
Page 153 - Now it is not too much to say that if an optician wanted to sell me an instrument which had all these defects, I should think myself quite justified in blaming his carelessness in the strongest terms, and giving him back his instrument.