 | John Raymond Howard - Education - 1899 - 236 pages
...and almost a sacrilegious belief, that the more a man studies Nature the less he reveres it ? .... The truth is, that those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. Whoever has not in youth collected plants... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Philosophy - 1910 - 320 pages
...scratches calls up as much poetry in an ignorant mind as in the mind of a geologist, who knows that over this rock a glacier slid a million years ago? The...those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. Whoever has not in youth collected plants... | |
 | John Francis Woodhull - Science - 1918 - 280 pages
...scratches calls up as much poetry in an ignorant mind as in the mind of a geologist, who knows that over this rock a glacier slid a million years ago ? The truth is that those who have not entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. Whoever... | |
 | Phineas Garrett, Charles Chalmers Shoemaker, Henry Gaines Hawn - Readers - 1893 - 280 pages
...scratches calls up as much poetry in an ignorant mind as in the mind of a geologist, who knows that over this rock a glacier slid a million years ago? The...those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry -by which theyare surrounded. Whoever has not in youth collected plants... | |
 | 1879 - 524 pages
...years ago ? The t ruth is that those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. Whoever...Insects, knows not half the halo of interest which lanes aud hedge-rows can assume. Whoever has not sought for fossils, has little Men of thfl associations... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - Education - 1895 - 554 pages
...scratches calls up as much poetry in an ignorant mind as in the mind of a geologist, who knows that over this rock a glacier slid a million years ago? The truth is that those who have not entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. Whoever... | |
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The truth is,, that those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. 
