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Page 100 - They may be naturally arranged into : — 1. those activities which directly minister to self-preservation ; 2. those activities which, by securing the necessaries of life, indirectly minister to self-preservation ; 3. those activities which have for their end the rearing and discipline of offspring ; 4. those activities which are involved in the maintenance of proper social and political relations ; 5. those miscellaneous activities which fill up the leisure part of life, devoted to the gratification...
Page 26 - Thou hast left behind Powers that will work for thee; air, earth, and skies; There's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee; thou hast great allies; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind.
Page 103 - Thus to the question with which we set out — What knowledge is of most worth ? — the uniform reply is — Science. This is the verdict on all the counts.
Page 106 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention; or a shop, for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 19 - No more, but that I know, the more one sickens the worse at ease he is ; and that he that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends...
Page 99 - Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.
Page 103 - Necessary and eternal as are its truths, all Science concerns all mankind for all time. Equally at present, and in the remotest future, must it be of incalculable importance for the regulation of their conduct, that men should understand the science of life...
Page 71 - I liken common languid times, with their unbelief, distress, perplexity, with their languid doubting characters and embarrassed circumstances, impotently crumbling down into ever worse distress towards final ruin; — all this I liken to dry dead fuel, waiting for the lightning out of heaven that shall kindle it. The great man with his free force direct out of God's own hand is the lightning.
Page 72 - I say, it is the everlasting privilege of the foolish to be governed by the wise; to be guided in the right path by those who know it better than they. This is the first
Page 99 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...