 | 1880 - 922 pages
...of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that as a mechanism it is capable of ; his intellect is a clear, cold, logic-engine, with all...a steam-engine, to be turned to any kind of work." The original work of the instructors, hastily sketched in this article, speaks fur itself, and needs... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1880 - 408 pages
...engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order; ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the rnind; whose mind is stored with a knowledge of / the great and fundamental truths of Nature and of... | |
 | 1921 - 744 pages
...intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength and in smooth running order, ready, like a steamengine, to be turned to any kind of work and to spin the gossamer as well as forge the anchors of the mind ; whose mind is stored with the great... | |
 | New Jersey. State Department of Health - 1881 - 1104 pages
...all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth, working order; ready, like a steam engine, to be trained to anv kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors... | |
 | 1887 - 528 pages
...Huxley's oft-quoted words, the ready servant of his will ; his intellect a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength and in smooth working order ; no stunted ascetic, full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1882 - 350 pages
...all the work that as a mechanism it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear. cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth...gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind ; whose mind is stored: with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of nature, and of the... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1882 - 346 pages
...all the work that as a mechanism it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth...gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind; whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of nature, and of the laws... | |
 | 1882 - 1044 pages
...all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of ; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order ; ready, like a steam-engine, to bo turned to any kind of work ; whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1882 - 364 pages
...Huxh-y longs, " whose intellect is a clear, cold logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength aud in smooth working order, ready, like a steam-engine, to be turned to all kinds of work." In Huxley himself this type of writing is seen at the greatest advantage; Froude... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - 1883 - 222 pages
...that, as a mechanism, it is capable of ; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with »11 its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working...gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind ; whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of nature, and of the laws... | |
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That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic... 
