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Page 462
... nature , is , as the friends of physical science praise it for being , an excellent discipline . The appeal , in the study of nature , is constantly to ob- servation and experiment ; not only is it said that the thing is so , but we can ...
... nature , is , as the friends of physical science praise it for being , an excellent discipline . The appeal , in the study of nature , is constantly to ob- servation and experiment ; not only is it said that the thing is so , but we can ...
Page 487
... Nature is harsh and wasteful in its operation . Ignorance is visited as sharply as wilful disobedience - incapacity meets with the same punishment as crime . Nature's dis- cipline is not even a word and a blow , and the blow first ; but ...
... Nature is harsh and wasteful in its operation . Ignorance is visited as sharply as wilful disobedience - incapacity meets with the same punishment as crime . Nature's dis- cipline is not even a word and a blow , and the blow first ; but ...
Page 552
... natural history of calamity . The changes which break up at short intervals the prosperity of men are advertisements of a nature whose law is growth . Evermore it is the order of nature to grow , and every soul is by this intrinsic ...
... natural history of calamity . The changes which break up at short intervals the prosperity of men are advertisements of a nature whose law is growth . Evermore it is the order of nature to grow , and every soul is by this intrinsic ...
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