| Frederic William Farrar - Classical education - 1867 - 428 pages
...of educators ; and yet feel that culture, without the former element, is now shallow and incomplete. Physical science is now so bound up with all the interests...beauty of its revelations : that it draws to itself an ever increasing amount of intellectual energy ; so that the intellectual man who has been trained without... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - Classical education - 1867 - 404 pages
...of educators ; and yet feel that culture, without the former element, is now shallow and incomplete. Physical science is now so bound up with all the interests...beauty of its revelations : that it draws to itself an ever increasing amount of intellectual energy ; so that the intellectual man who has been trained without... | |
| Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - History - 1872 - 336 pages
...forces itself upon the observation, and it will be of continual advantage to be able to comprehend 4* + and classify the observations thus passing before...promise, so fascinating in the varied beauty of its revelations,—that it draws to itself an ever-increasing amount of intellectual energy, so that the... | |
| George Steiner - History - 1971 - 156 pages
...literatures "to give the best teaching in mental, ethical, and political philosophy" is rapidly passing away. Physical science "is now so bound up with all the interests of mankind" that some familiarity with it is indispensable to an understanding of and participation in "the present... | |
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