 I asserted — and I repeat — that a man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling, it would rather be a man — a man of restless and versatile intellect — who,...  Science - Page 432edited by - 1917Full view - About this book
 | Maynard Shipley, Francis David Nichol, Alonzo Lafayette Baker - 1925 - 190 pages
...feel shame in recalling, it would be a man of restless and versatile intellect, who, not content with success in his own sphere of activity, plunges into...which he has no real acquaintance only to obscure them with an aimless rhetoric and distract the attention of his hearers from the real point at issue by... | |
 | Charles Reynolds Brown - 1924 - 198 pages
...restless and versatile intellect who not content with an equivocal success in his own sphere, actively plunges into scientific questions with which he has...acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric and to distract the attention of his hearers from the real point at issue by eloquent digressions and skilled... | |
 | John Langdon-Davies - 1925 - 262 pages
...restless and versatile intellect — who not content with success in his own sphere of activity, pjunges into Scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by aimless rhetoric, and distract the interest of his hearers from the real point at issue by eloquent... | |
 | Gamaliel Bradford - 1926 - 356 pages
...grandfather, but if he were to feel shame, 103 it would be for an ancestor 'who not content with an equivocal success in his own sphere of activity, plunges into...digressions, and skilled appeals to religious prejudice.' *2 This sort of thing was by no means agreeable to Darwin, and he repeatedly refers to the pain and... | |
 | Wilfred Whitten - 1926 - 212 pages
...rather be a man — a man of restless and versatile intellect — who, not content with (an equivocal) success in his own sphere of activity, plunges into...digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice." The Rev. W. Tuckwell, whose description is the most vivid, says : " A gasp and shudder through the... | |
 | Woodbridge Riley - 1926 - 376 pages
...recalling, it would be a man, a man of restless and versatile intellect, who, not content with an equivocal success in his own sphere of activity, plunges into...digressions, and skilled appeals to religious prejudice." Darwin referred to this as the battle royal at Oxford. But as for himself he was never personal as... | |
 | Horatio Hackett Newman - 1926 - 180 pages
...recalling it would rather be a man — a man of restless and versatile intellect — who not content with success in his own sphere of activity, plunges into...has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by aimless rhetoric, and distract the attention of his hearers from the real point at issue by eloquent... | |
 | Lawrence Fraser Abbott - 1927 - 326 pages
...rather be a man — a man of restless and versatile intellect — who, not content with an equivocal success in his own sphere of activity, plunges into...digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice. Intellectual England was torn asunder by this debate, but gradually the operations of quiet reason... | |
 | George Amos Dorsey - 1928 - 326 pages
...shame in recalling, it would be a man, a man of restless and versatile intellect, who, not content with success in his own sphere of activity, plunges into...digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice." Green continued: "The excitement was now at its height; a lady fainted and had to be carried out, and... | |
 | 1901 - 972 pages
...rather be a man — a man of restless and versatile intellect — who, not content with an equivocal success in his own sphere of activity, plunges into...digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice." This can hardly be accurate ; no electric effect could hare been wrought by so long-winded a sentiment.... | |
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