 | 1858 - 648 pages
...in the future for that which we have obtained from the men of the past. Bacon, in his instniction, tells us that the scientific student ought not to...the mental education afforded by science is rendered supcreminent in dignity, in practical application, nnd utility; for, by enabling the mind to apply... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1858 - 614 pages
...improvement of the mind either by the acquisition of the knowledge of others or by increase of it through its own exertions, .we learn by them what is the kind...the mental education afforded by science is rendered supereminent in dignity, in practical application, and utility ; for, by enabling the mind to apply... | |
 | 1858 - 638 pages
...any part of physical science. Electricity is often called wonderful, bcautifid; but it is so only iu common with the other forces of nature. The beauty...the mental education afforded by science is rendered superenuncnt in dignity, in practical application, and utility; for, by enabling the mind to apply... | |
 | 1858 - 648 pages
...power is mysterious and unexpected, touching every sense at unawares in turn, but that it is under Inn; and that the taught intellect can even now govern...the mental education afforded by science is rendered supcreminent in dignity, in practical application, and utility; for, by enabling the mind to apply... | |
 | 1859 - 328 pages
...improvement of the mind either by the acquisition of the knowledge of others or by increase of it through its own exertions, we learn by them what is the kind of...above, not beneath it ; and it is in such a point of vicw that the mental education afforded by science is rendered supereminent in dignity, in practical... | |
 | 1859 - 450 pages
...the bee, who both gathers and produces. All this is true of the teaching afforded by any part of the physical science. Electricity is often called wonderful...the mental education afforded by science is rendered supereminent in dignity, in practical application, and utility : for, by enabling the mind to apply... | |
 | 1859 - 448 pages
...the bee, who both gathers and produces. All this is true of the teaching afforded by any part of the physical science. Electricity is often called wonderful...mind is placed above, not beneath it; and it is in snch a point of view that the mental education afforded by science is rendered supereminent in dignity,... | |
 | 1859 - 478 pages
...so only in common with the other forees of nature. The bcauty of electricity, or of any other foree, is not that the power is mysterious and unexpected,...govern it largely. The human mind is placed above, not bencath it; and it is in such a point of view that the mental education afforded by science is rendered... | |
 | 1859 - 668 pages
...unexpected, touching every sense at unawares in turn, but that it is under lam, ami that the tuught intellect can even now govern it largely. The human...above, not beneath it ; and it is in such a point of > ie>v that the mentiil education afforded by science is rendered supereminent in dignity, in practical... | |
 | Bence Jones, Michael Faraday - 1870 - 522 pages
...suspend the judgment, to discover and obey law, and by it to be bold in applying to the greatest 1858. what we know of the smallest. It teaches us first...govern it largely. The human mind is placed above, and not beneath it, and it is in such a point of view that the mental education afforded by science... | |
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It teaches us first by tutors and books to learn that which is already known to others, and then by the light and methods which belong to science to learn for ourselves and for others ; — so making a fruitful return to man in the future for that which... 
