English Men of Science: Their Nature and NurtureD. Appleton, 1895 - 206 Seiten |
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active afterward Alderson bias of thought botany branch of science brothers Cambridge character Charles Darwin chemistry classics Cloth considerable correspondent Darwin Decidedly innate degree early eminent ence encouragement energy engineering English eral Erasmus Darwin extracts facts father fatigue females fond Francis Darwin FRANCIS GALTON Francis Palgrave geology Henry Strachey hereditary independence influence inherited innate taste inquiry intellectual interest in science Isaac Taylor lectures mathematics mechanical memory mental merits mind mother names natural history never nurture observation paleontology parents partly peculiar persons physical Prof profession professional question religious bias remarkable replies retentive scientific men scientific pursuits scientific tastes Scotch senior wrangler sense Sir Henry Holland Society statistical strong strongly subjects taste for science taught teaching tendency things tion trace the origin Wedgwood young youth Zoology
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Seite 9 - nature and nurture" is a convenient jingle of words, for it separates under two distinct heads the innumerable elements of which personality is composed. Nature is all that a man brings with himself into the world; nurture is every influence from without that affects him after his birth.
Seite ix - I too acknowledge the ailbut omnipotence of early culture and nurture : hereby we have either a doddered dwarf bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing tree ; either a sick yellow cabbage, or an edible luxuriant green one.
Seite 11 - We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet a union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem ; So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart : Two of the first, like coats in heraldry Due but to one, and crowned with one...