 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Culture - 1881 - 372 pages
...the material universe, and that the world is not subordinated to man's use. It is even more certain that nature is the expression of a definite order with which nothing interferes, and that the chief business of mankind is to learn that order and govern themselves accordingly. Moreover... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1881 - 648 pages
...the material universe, aud that the world is not subordinated to man's use. It is even more certa n that nature is the expression of a definite order, with which nothing interferes, aud that the chief business of mankind is to learn that order, and govern themselves accordingly. Moreover,... | |
 | Joseph William Reynolds - Miracles - 1881 - 482 pages
...so also is the continuance. Professor Huxley said, at the opening of Sir Josiah Mason's College, " Nature is the expression of a definite order with which nothing interferes." Such a statement, even if true, can never be verified ; and, as it is not less opposed to science than... | |
 | American literature - 1882 - 884 pages
...reach and importance as those which Professor Huxley brings us, when he says that the notions of our forefathers about the beginning and the end of the...science are, important they are, and we should all be acquainted with them. But what I now wish you to mark is, that we are still, when they are propounded... | |
 | Science - 1882 - 922 pages
...interferes. Interesting, indeed, these results of science are, important they are, and we should all be acquainted with them. But what I now wish you to...they are propounded to us and we receive them, we arc still in the sphere of intellect and knowledge. And for the generality of men there will be found,... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1882 - 1050 pages
...the material universe, and that the world is not subordinated to man's use. It is even more certain that nature is the expression of a definite order, with which nothing interferes.' ' And yet,' he cries, ' the purely classical education advocated by the representatives of the humanists... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1882 - 920 pages
...the material universe, and that the world is not subordinated to man's use. It is even more certain that nature is the expression of a definite order, with which nothing interferes. " " And yet, ' ' he cries, " the purely classical education advocated by the representatives of the... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Democracy - 1885 - 234 pages
...the material universe, and that the world is not subordinated to man's use. It is even more certain that nature is the expression of a definite order, with which nothing interferes.' ' And yet,' he cries, ' the purely classical education advocated by the representatives of the humanists... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Automatism - 1886 - 350 pages
...the material universe, and that the world is not subordinated to man's use. It is even more certain that nature is the expression of a definite order with which nothing interferes, and that the chief business of mankind is to learn that order and govern themselves accordingly. Moreover... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1889 - 656 pages
...certain," — more certain, namely than what he had affirmed in the immediately preceding sentence, — " that nature is the expression of a definite order with which nothing interferes." In another lecture he says : " No physical geologist now dreams of seeking, outside the range of known... | |
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the notions of the beginning and the end of the world entertained by our forefathers are no longer credible. It is very certain that the earth is not the chief body in the material universe, and that the world is not subordinated to man's use. It is... 
