Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
The four chapters of which this work consists, originally appeared as four Review-articles: the first in the _Westminster Review_ for July 1859; the second in the _North British Review_ for May 1854; and the remaining two in the _British Quarterly Review_ for April 1858 and fo...
It has been truly remarked that, in order of time, decoration precedes dress. Among people who submit to great physical suffering that they may have themselves handsomely tattoo...
4. Chapter 4The current conception of Progress is somewhat shifting and indefinite. Sometimes it comprehends little more than simple growth--as of a nation in the number of its members and...
7. Chapter 7A glance over this confused scheme shows that it is an attempt to classify knowledge, not after the order in which it has been, or may be, built up in the human consciousness; b...
2. Chapter 2The four chapters of which this work consists, originally appeared as four Review-articles: the first in the _Westminster Review_ for July 1859; the second in the _North British...
6. Chapter 6(He says in explanation that "ONTOLOGY teaches us the phenomena of matter. The first of these are the heavenly bodies comprehended by _Cosmogeny_. These divide into elements--_S...
5. Chapter 51. Chapter 1