Periodicals>Magazine Article:  Huxley , Thomas Henry (1880), The Crayfish: an Introduction to the Study of Zoölogy, Popular Science, (Apr 1880), 16, 789-790, Retrieved on 2012-06-05

Memes

05 JUN 2012

 The Growth and Stages of Scientific Knowledge

In its earliest development knowledge is self-sown. Impressions force themselves upon men’s senses whether they will or not, and often against their will. The amount of interest in which these impressions awaken is determined by the coarser pains and pleasures which they carry in their train or by mere curiosity; and reason deals with the materials supplied to it as far as that interest carries it, and no further. Such common knowledge is rather brought than sought; and such ratiocination is ...
Folksonomies: nature education knowledge
Folksonomies: nature education knowledge
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Into aesthetic pleasure to recognizing the continuous series of causes in nature.

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