Scientific Use of the Imagination and Other EssaysLongmans, Green and Company, 1872 - 63 páginas |
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... world of theory into the world of sense , and see whether our deductions do not issue in the very phenomena of light which ordinary knowledge and skilled experiment reveal . If in all the multiplied varieties of these phenomena ...
... world of theory into the world of sense , and see whether our deductions do not issue in the very phenomena of light which ordinary knowledge and skilled experiment reveal . If in all the multiplied varieties of these phenomena ...
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... world not less real than that of the senses , and of which the world of sense itself is the suggestion and justification . Far be it from me , however , to wish to fix you immov- ably in this or in any other theoretic conception . With ...
... world not less real than that of the senses , and of which the world of sense itself is the suggestion and justification . Far be it from me , however , to wish to fix you immov- ably in this or in any other theoretic conception . With ...
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... world of minor germs . Not only is the organism as a whole wrapped up in the germ , but every organ of the organism has there its special seed . This , I say , is an adventurous draft on the power of matter to divide itself and ...
... world of minor germs . Not only is the organism as a whole wrapped up in the germ , but every organ of the organism has there its special seed . This , I say , is an adventurous draft on the power of matter to divide itself and ...
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... worlds within his reach , in order to shape the course of speculation in the antecedent ages and worlds . And though the certainty possessed by experi- mental enquiry is here shut out , the imagination is not left entirely without ...
... worlds within his reach , in order to shape the course of speculation in the antecedent ages and worlds . And though the certainty possessed by experi- mental enquiry is here shut out , the imagination is not left entirely without ...
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... world's age to expand itself indefinitely before the mind of his audience , and he contrasted this with the age usually assigned to the world . During his discourse he seemed to be swimming against a stream ; he manifestly thought that ...
... world's age to expand itself indefinitely before the mind of his audience , and he contrasted this with the age usually assigned to the world . During his discourse he seemed to be swimming against a stream ; he manifestly thought that ...
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