 That which stirs their pulses is the love of knowledge and the joy of the discovery of the causes of things sung by the old poets; the supreme delight of extending the realm of law and order ever farther towards the unattainable goals of the infinitely...  The Popular Science Monthly - Page 1631888Full view - About this book
 | Apologetics - 1888 - 492 pages
...sung by the old poets — the supreme delight of extending the realm of law and order ever farther toward the unattainable goals of the infinitely great...small, between which our little race of life is run ; " and thus of increasing our knowledge of the great Lawgiver and Ruler who seeks so to direct the... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1916 - 958 pages
...by the old poet — the supreme delight of extending the realm of law and order ever farther towards the unattainable goals of the infinitely great and...small, between which our little race of life is run." While a single discovery in pure science when considered with reference to any particular branch of... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1916 - 950 pages
...by the old poet — the supreme delight of extending the realm of law and order ever farther towards the unattainable goals of the infinitely great and...small, between which our little race of life is run." While a single discovery in pure science when considered with reference to any particular branch of... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1889 - 806 pages
...by the old poets; the supreme delight of extending the realm of law and order ever farther towards the unattainable goals of the infinitely great and...which proves to be of practical value. Great is the rejoiciug of those who are benefited thereby; and, for the moment, science is the Diana of all the... | |
 | Samuel Burns Weston - Ethical culture movement - 1890 - 582 pages
...stand aside. As Huxley says in his essay "On the Advancement of Science in the Last Half-Century," " The physical philosopher sometimes intentionally,...thereby ; and, for the moment, science is the Diana of^.11 the craftsmen. But, even while the cries of jubilation resound, and this flotsam and jetsam... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1892 - 1146 pages
...speaking of tlie things of commercial value which the physical philosopher sometimes discovers : — ' Great is the rejoicing- of those who are benefited...moment, science is the Diana of all the craftsmen. Rut even while the cries of jubilation resound, and this flotsam and jetsam of the tide of investigation... | |
 | George Hodges - Christian sociology - 1896 - 282 pages
...Somebody else may do that and get rich out of it. " The physical philosopher," says Professor Huxley, "sometimes intentionally, much more often unintentionally,...which proves to be of practical value. Great is the benefit of those who are benefited thereby, and for the moment science is the Diana of all the craftsmen.... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - Success - 1897 - 392 pages
...by the old poets, the supreme delight of extending the realm of law and order ever farther towards the unattainable goals of the infinitely great and...small, between which our little race of life is run. Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their power, in whom the divine afflatus... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Political science - 1898 - 452 pages
...by the old poet — the supreme delight of extending the realm of law and order ever farther towards the unattainable goals of the infinitely great and..., small, between which our little race of life is run.J In the course of this work, the physical philosopher, sometimes intentionally, much more often... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Science - 1901 - 456 pages
...by the old poet — the supreme delight of extending the realm of law and order ever farther towards the unattainable goals of the infinitely great and...and, for the moment, science is the Diana of all the i even while the cries of jubilation r^Hl. ... j*i this flotsam and jetsam of the tide of .,.~^:,woii... | |
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