It happens that great masses of knowledge are daily perishing before our eyes without the possibility of recovery, because, in fact, our eyes are not open to them, and we have nothing to awaken our attention to their transient display.


Essays From the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews with Addresses and, Other Pieces, Terrestrial Magnetism (pp. 65-66)

John Herschel Quotes

It happens that great masses of knowledge are daily perishing before our eyes without the possibility of recovery, because, in fact, our eyes are not ...

It happens that great masses of knowledge are daily perishing before our eyes without the possibility of recovery, because, in fact, our eyes are not ...

It happens that great masses of knowledge are daily perishing before our eyes without the possibility of recovery, because, in fact, our eyes are not ...

It happens that great masses of knowledge are daily perishing before our eyes without the possibility of recovery, because, in fact, our eyes are not ...