The love of knowledge and of intellectual power is a faculty belonging to the human mind in every state of society; and it is one by which it is most justly characterized — one the most worthy of being cultivated and extended.


In: Robert Siegfried and Robert H. Dott, Jr. (eds.), Humphry Davy on Geology: The 1805 Lectures for the General Audience, Introductory Lecture for the Courses of 1805 (p. 3)

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The love of knowledge and of intellectual power is a faculty belonging to the human mind in every state of society; and it is one by which it is most ...

The love of knowledge and of intellectual power is a faculty belonging to the human mind in every state of society; and it is one by which it is most ...

The love of knowledge and of intellectual power is a faculty belonging to the human mind in every state of society; and it is one by which it is most ...

The love of knowledge and of intellectual power is a faculty belonging to the human mind in every state of society; and it is one by which it is most ...