Records of the School of Mines and of Science Applied to the Arts, Band 1,Teil 1H.M. Stationery Office, 1852 |
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Seite 47 - CommonSense is only our second-best guide — that the rules of Art, if judiciously framed, are always desirable when they can be had, is an assertion, for the truth of which I may appeal to the testimony of mankind in general ; which is so much the more valuable, inasmuch as it may be accounted the testimony of adversaries. For the generality have a strong predilection in...
Seite 28 - Is there any one so foolish," he asks, " as to believe that there are antipodes with their feet opposite to ours ; people who walk with their heels upward and their heads hanging down ? That there is a part of the world in which all things are topsy-turvy : where the trees grow with their branches downward, and where it rains, hails, and snows upward ? The idea of the roundness of the earth...
Seite 43 - It would certainly be esteemed one of the greatest discoveries of the age," says he, "if any one could succeed in condensing coal-gas into a white, dry, solid, odourless substance, portable, and capable of being placed upon a candlestick or burned in a lamp.
Seite 46 - Common-Sense is meant, I apprehend, (when the term is used with any distinct meaning,) an exercise of the judgment unaided by any Art or system of rules : such an exercise as we must necessarily employ in numberless cases of daily occurrence ; in which, having no established principles to guide us, — no line of procedure, as it were, distinctly chalked out, — we must needs act on the host extemporaneous conjectures we can form.
Seite 47 - Neither, again, would the architect recommend a reliance on common sense alone in building, nor the musician in music, to the neglect of those systems of rules, which, in their respective arts, have been deduced from scientific reasoning, aided by experience ; and the induction might be extended to every department of practice. Since, therefore, each gives the...
Seite 40 - In the remains of an extinct animal world, England is to find the means of increasing her wealth in agricultural produce, as she has already found the great support of her manufacturing industry in fossil fuel — the preserved matter of primeval forests — the remains of a vegetable world.
Seite 43 - It would certainly," says Liebig, " be considered one of the greatest discoveries of the age if any one could succeed in condensing coal gas into a white, dry, solid, odourless substance, portable, and capable of being placed upon a candlestick or burned in a lamp.
Seite 39 - IV., a royal edict recommended that " the clergy should search for the philosopher's stone, for since they can change bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, they must also, by the help of God, succeed in transmuting the baser metals into gold.
Seite 48 - Depend upon it, an empirical knowledge of practice is not the way now to succeed in the struggle of individuals, or in the struggle of nations. Intellect is on the stretch to get forward, and that nation which holds not by it will soon be left behind.
Seite 47 - Common-Sense alone in building, nor the Musician in music, to the neglect of those systems of rules, which, in their respective arts, have been " deduced from scientific reasoning aided by experience. And the induction might be extended to every department of practice. Since, therefore, each gives the preference to unassisted...