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Essays: First Series (1841)
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Show us an arc of the curve, and a good mathematician will find out the whole figure. We are always reasoning from the seen to the unseen.
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The root of the plant is not unsightly to science...
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The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of the fact thatall nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.
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Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.
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No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.
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Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
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What connection do the books show between the fifty or sixty chemical elements and the historical eras?
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No anchor, no cable, no fences, avail to keep a fact a fact.
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Is it any better if the student... aims to make a mechanical whole of.,.science... by a numerical addition of all the facts that fall within his vision.
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Poets should be law-givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day's work.
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A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.
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Born:
May 25, 1803
Died:
April 27, 1882
(aged 78)
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