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Spencer's Philosophy of Science - The Herbert Spencer Lecture Delivered at the Museum 7 November, 1913
Towards the close of 1870, while I was still in my teens, my youthful enthusiasm was fired by reading Tyndall's Discourse on The Scientific Use of the Imagination. The vision of the conquest of nature by physical sciencea vision which had but lately begun to open up to my wondering gazewas rendered clearer and more extensive. Of the theory of evolution I knew but little; but I none the less felt assured that it had come to stay and to prevail. Was it not accepted by all of usthe enlightened and emancipated men of science whose ranks I had joined as a raw recruit? Believing that I was independently breaking free of all authority, to the authority that appealed to my fancy, and to a new loyalty, I was a willing slave. And here in one glowing sentence the inner core of evolution lay revealed. 'Strip it naked and you stand face to face with the notion that not alone the more ignoble forms of animalcular and animal life, not alone the nobler forms of the horse and the lion, not alone the exquisite and wonderful mechanism of the human body, but that the human mind itselfemotion, intellect and all their phenomenawere once latent in a fiery cloud.'[1] ......Buy Now (To Read More)
Ebook Number: 37513
Author: Morgan, C. Lloyd (Conwy Lloyd)
Release Date: Sep 23, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English
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