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That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation. And it is equally certain that the tastes and pursuits of our manhood will bear on them the trac...
As the venerable first parent of English, and I might perhaps say, of European scientific societies; as a body in the welfare of which, in the opinions of many, the interests of...
6. CHAPTER VI. SUGGESTIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE IN ENGLAND.One of the causes which has contributed to the success of the PARTY, is to be found in the great reluctance with which many of those whose names added lustre to the Society expr...
2. CHAPTER II. OF THE INDUCEMENTS TO INDIVIDUALS TO CULTIVATE SCIENCE.Interest or inclination form the primary and ruling motives in this matter: and both these exert greater or less proportionate influence in each of the respective cases to be ex...
5. CHAPTER V. OF OBSERVATIONS.No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the last advances towards precision require a great...
3. CHAPTER III. GENERAL STATE OF LEARNED SOCIETIES IN ENGLAND.The progress of knowledge convinced the world that the system of the division of labour and of cooperation was as applicable to science, as it had been found available for the i...
1. CHAPTER I. ON THE RECIPROCAL INFLUENCE OF SCIENCE AND EDUCATION.That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigati...