 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 446edited by - 1917Full view - About this book
 | 1897 - 360 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." The point here at issue is that no switchboard of the type under discussion has ever been in operation.... | |
 | Leonard Huxley - 1900 - 580 pages
...rather be a man — a man of restless and versatile intellect — who, not content with an equivocal f success in his own sphere of activity, plunges into...digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice. \ Further, Mr. AG Vernon-Harcourt, FRS, Reader in Chemistry at the University of Oxford, writes to... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1901 - 546 pages
...would 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." I will tell you more when I see you. — Till then, believe me, dear Dax, your very affectionate, JR... | |
 | John Fiske - 1902 - 338 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 have been wrought by so long-winded a sentiment.... | |
 | John Fiske - 1902 - 336 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 have been wrought by so long-winded a sentiment.... | |
 | Edward Clodd - 1902 - 278 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...eloquent digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice.1 The rebuke was supplemented in an article in the Natural History Review, January, 1861,... | |
 | Herbert Woodfield Paul - 1904 - 462 pages
...versatile intellect, who, not content with success in his own sphere of activity, plunges i85T-«s. into scientific questions with which he has no real...aimless rhetoric, and distract the attention of his audience from the real point at issue, by eloquent digression, and skilled appeals to religious prejudice."... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1905 - 284 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...his hearers from the real point at issue by eloquent digression and a skillful appeal to religious prejudices." Captain Fitz-Roy, who was present at this... | |
 | John Watson - 1905 - 384 pages
...recalling, it would be a man of restless and versatile intellect who, not content with an equivocal success in his own sphere of activity, plunges into...distract the attention of his hearers from the real point by eloquent digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice." The audacity of worldliness, which... | |
 | Massachusetts Biographical Society - 1906 - 27 pages
...recalling, it would be a man, a man of restless and versatile intellect, who, not content with sucesses in his own sphere of activity, plunges into scientific...he has no real acquaintance only to obscure them by his aimless rhetoric, and distract the attention of his hearers from the real point at issue by eloquent... | |
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