 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 608 pages
...truth has been thoroughly taken in, rigidity will be relaxed, exclusiveness diminished, things now deemed essential will be dropped, and elements now...leverage may be employed to raise life to a higher level. Science itself not unfrequently derives a motive power from an ultra-scientific source. Whewell speaks... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1903 - 146 pages
...truth has been thoroughly taken in, rigidity will be relaxed, exclusiveness diminished, things now deemed essential will be dropped, and elements now...leverage may be employed to raise life to a higher level. Science itself not unfrequently derives motive power from an ultra-scientific source. Some of its greatest... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1874 - 844 pages
...truth has been thoroughly taken in, rigidity will be relaxed, exclusiveness diminished, things now deemed essential will be dropped, and elements now...leverage may be employed to raise life to a higher level. Science itself not unfrequently derives motive-power from an ultra-scientific source. Whewell speaks... | |
 | 1875 - 1112 pages
...truth has been thoroughly taten in, rigidity will be relaxed, exclu.-iveiiess diminished, things no«- deemed essential will be dropped, and elements now...leverage may be employed to raise life to a higher level. Science itself not unfrequcnlly derives motive power from an ultra-scientific source. U'hewell speaks... | |
 | Ramananda Chatterjee - 1923 - 792 pages
...truth has been thoroughly taken in, rigidity will be relaxed, exclusiveness diminished, things now deemed essential will be dropped, and elements now...may be employed to raise life to a higher level." The scramble for seats in the science classes of our colleges and universities is pathetic to behold.... | |
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Every system which would escape the fate of an organism too rigid to adjust itself to its environment must be plastic to the extent that the growth of knowledge demands. When this truth has been thoroughly taken in, rigidity will be relaxed, exclusiveness... 
