 In natural science, I have understood, there is nothing petty to the mind that has a large vision of relations, and to which every single object suggests a vast sum of conditions. It is surely the same with the observation of human life.  Novels [of George Eliot] - Page 163by George Eliot - 1870Full view - About this book
 | George Eliot - Brothers and sisters - 1860 - 476 pages
...of obscure hearths; and we need net shrink from this comparison of small things with great; for does not science tell us that its highest striving is after...vast sum of conditions. It is surely the same with the observation of human life. Certainly the religious and moral ideas of the Dodsons and Tullivers... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1867 - 628 pages
...obscure hearths ; and we need not shrink from this comparison of small things with great ; for does not science tell us that its highest striving is after...vast sum of conditions. It is surely the same with the observation of human life. Certainly the religious and moral ideas of the Dodsons and Tullivers... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...obscure hearths ; and we need not shrink from this comparison of small things with great ; for does not science tell us that its highest striving is after...vast sum of conditions. It is surely the same with the observation of human life. There is something sustaining in the very agitation that accompanies... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...obscure hearths ; and we need not shrink from this comparison of small things with great ; for does not science tell us that its highest striving is after...vast sum of conditions. It is surely the same with the observation of human life. There is something sustaining in the very agitation that accompanies... | |
 | Joseph Converse Heywood - American literature - 1877 - 326 pages
...obscure hearths ; and we need not shrink from this comparison of small things with great ; for does not science tell us that its highest striving is after...vast sum of conditions. It is surely the same with the observation of human life." She tells you this herself. Do you not feel as if in a narrow school-room... | |
 | Joseph Converse Heywood - American literature - 1877 - 310 pages
...of obscure hearths; and we need not shrink from this comparison of small things with great; for does not science tell us that its highest striving is after...unity which shall bind the smallest things with the great* est? In natural science, I have understood, there is nothing petty to the mind that has a large... | |
 | George Eliot - 1878 - 420 pages
...obscure hearths ; and we need not .shrink from this comparison of small things with great ; for does not science tell us that its highest striving is after...vast sum of conditions. It is surely the same with the observation of human life. Certainly the religious and moral ideas of the Dodsons and Tullivers... | |
 | Joseph Kidd - 1879 - 208 pages
...faculty of the human mind that sees law in the most minute as in the greatest actions." * " For does not science tell us that its highest striving is after...which shall bind the smallest things with the greatest ?"f All progress in knowledge lies in the direction of simplicity and exactness. The study of natural... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1881 - 634 pages
...that we should feel it. Does not science tell us that its highest striving is after the attainment of a unity which shall bind the smallest things with...vast sum of conditions. It is surely the same with the observation of human life. Thus, then, she would, as it were, lay upon her photographic outlines... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1881 - 636 pages
...be the explanation in her own words. " In natural science," she writes, in Tlw Mill on the Floss, " I have understood, there is nothing petty to the mind...vast sum of conditions. It is surely the same with the observation of human life." This I hope to make clear in the course of the following examination.... | |
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