Essays, philosophical and theological. By James Martineau.
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 21, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9781425548926
Subjects: American history; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; United States - General; History / United States / General
First sentence: IN his inaugural Address at the last meeting of the British Association, Sir John Herschel said: - "The fact is every year becoming more broadly manifest, by the successful application of scientific principles to subjects that had hitherto been only empirically treated (of which agriculture may be taken or perhaps the most conspicuous instance), that the great work of Bacon was not the completion, but ad he himself foresaw and foretold, only the commencement of his own philosophy; and that we are even yet only at the threshold of that palace of Truth which succeeding generations will range over as their own, - a world of scientific inquiry, in which not matter only and its properties, but the far more rich and complex relations of life and thought, of passion and motive, interest and action, will come to be regarded as its legitimate objects."