 | Andrew Jackson Davis - 1867 - 220 pages
...imagination. The natural philosopher of to-day may dwell amid conceptions which beggar those of Milton. So great and grand are they, that in the contemplation...bewilderment. Look at the integrated energies of our world—the stored power of our coal-fields, or winds and rivers, our fleets, armies, and guns. What... | |
 | 1867 - 378 pages
...TO-DAY. " THE natural philosopher of to-day may dwell amid conceptions which beggar those of Milton. So great and grand are they, that in the contemplation...requisite to preserve us from bewilderment. Look at the integral energies of our world ; the stored power of our coal-fields, our winds and rivers, our fleets,... | |
 | Bernard Cracroft - 1868 - 348 pages
...imagination. The natural philosopher of to-day may dwell amid conceptions which beggar those of Milton. So great and grand are they, that in the contemplation...coal-fields, our winds and rivers, our fleets, armies, and guus. What are they ? They are all generated by a portion of the sun's energy, vrhieh does not amount... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Davis - 1868 - 220 pages
...imagination. The natural philosopher of to-day may dwell amid conceptions which beggar those of Milton. So great and grand are they, that in the contemplation...our world — the stored power of our coal-fields, or winds and rivers, our fleets, armies, and guns. What are they ? They are all generated by a portion... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1868 - 560 pages
...integrated energies of our world, — the stored CHAP. xiv. LIMITS OF SCIENCE, — CONCLUSION. 503 power of our coal-fields; our winds and rivers; our...portion of the sun's energy, which does not amount to 73000'0000? of the whole. This is the entire fraction of the sun's force intercepted by the earth,... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1863 - 550 pages
...man. The natural philosopher of to' day may dwell anu'd conceptions which beggar those of Milton. ' So great and grand are they, that in the contemplation...force of character is requisite to preserve us from bewil' derment. Look at the integrated energies of our world, — the ' stored power of our coal-fields... | |
 | 1887 - 984 pages
...man. The natural philosopher of to-day may dwell amid conceptions which beggar those of Milton. So great and grand are they, that in the contemplation...character is requisite to preserve us from bewilderment." But, after all. this statement of a physical law is only the scientific form of the poetic thought... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1871 - 552 pages
...imagination. The natural philosopher of to-day may dwell amid conceptions which beggar those of Milton. So great and grand are they, that in the contemplation...portion of the Sun's energy which does not amount to the two-* inilliontli of the whole. This is the entire fraction of the Sun's force intercepted by the... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...man. The natural philosopher of to-day may dwell amid conceptions which beggar those of Milton. So great and grand are they, that, in the contemplation...portion of the sun's energy, which does not amount to an infinitesimal part of the whole. Multiplying our powers by millions of millions, we do not reach... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1873 - 582 pages
...imagination. The natural philosopher of to-day may dwell amid conceptions which beggar those of Milton. Look at the integrated energies of our world — the stored power of our coal-fields ; out winds and rivers ; our fleets, armies, and guns. What are tliry ? They are all generated by a... | |
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