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The book "History of Astronomy" by George Forbes is a comprehensive exploration of the evolution of astronomical knowledge and understanding. Written in the early 20th century, the book covers the history of astronomy from ancient civilizations to the present day, touching on the contributions of key figures like Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton.Forbes delves into topics such as the development of observational techniques, the evolution of astronomical theories, and the impact of astronomy on other fields of science. He also explores the cultural and social context in which astronomical discoveries were made, highlighting the ways in which beliefs about the universe have shaped human history.Overall, "History of Astronomy" is an engaging and informative read for anyone interested in the history of science or the wonders of the universe. Forbes' prose is clear and accessible, making complex ideas easy to understand without sacrificing depth or nuance.

The Yoga of Wisdom is a book written by William Walker Atkinson that delves deep into the ancient Indian spiritual tradition of Yoga and its philosophy. The book provides a comprehensive and practical guide to the practice of Yoga and how it can be used to achieve inner peace, happiness, and spiritual growth.Atkinson begins by exploring the origins of Yoga and its various branches, including Hatha Yoga, Raja Yoga, and Bhakti Yoga. He then discusses the different stages of Yoga and how they can be used to attain self-realization and enlightenment. The book also covers important topics like the role of meditation in Yoga, the nature of the mind and consciousness, and the relationship between the individual and the universe.What sets The Yoga of Wisdom apart from other books on Yoga is Atkinson's unique approach to the subject matter. He combines his extensive knowledge of Yoga with his background in Western philosophy and psychology to create a book that is both accessible and insightful. Whether you are a seasoned practitioner of Yoga or a beginner, The Yoga of Wisdom is an excellent resource that can help you deepen your understanding of this ancient practice.

Edward Bradford Titchener was a renowned psychologist who developed the theory of structuralism, which sought to understand the structure of the human mind through introspection. In his book "A Beginner's Psychology", Titchener aimed to provide an introduction to the field of psychology for those who had little to no previous knowledge on the subject.The book covers a range of topics, including the various schools of psychology, the nature of sensation and perception, and the role of attention and memory. Titchener also discusses the importance of the scientific method in psychology and the ways in which psychological research is conducted.One of the key concepts in Titchener's theory of structuralism was the idea of "elements of consciousness", which he believed could be broken down into their individual components. He argued that by studying these elements, psychologists could gain a better understanding of the workings of the human mind.While Titchener's ideas were influential in the development of psychology as a discipline, they were also criticized for being overly focused on introspection and subjective experience. Despite this, "A Beginner's Psychology" remains an important text in the history of psychology and continues to be studied by students and researchers today.

Christmas Tide is a heartwarming story by Elizabeth Harrison that celebrates the true spirit of Christmas. The story takes place in a small village in England, where the holiday season is always a special time of year. The villagers are all preparing for Christmas, decorating their homes, baking treats, and making plans to spend time with their loved ones.As the holiday approaches, the village is hit by a severe snowstorm, which threatens to ruin everyone's plans. But in the midst of the storm, a group of strangers arrives in the village, seeking shelter from the cold. The villagers welcome them with open arms and soon they are all gathered together, sharing stories, singing carols, and enjoying the warmth of each other's company.The strangers turn out to be a family who have been traveling through the countryside, searching for a place to call home. Moved by the kindness of the villagers, they decide to stay in the village and make it their new home. And as they settle in, they discover that the true meaning of Christmas is not about presents or decorations, but about love, generosity, and the joy of spending time with those we care about.Overall, Christmas Tide is a beautiful story that captures the magic of the holiday season and reminds us of the importance of kindness, compassion, and community.

The Game of Logic is a book written by Lewis Carroll, the author best known for his famous works such as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. The Game of Logic is a treatise on logic and logical reasoning, written in the form of a game. The book was first published in 1887 and is still considered a valuable resource for those interested in logic and mathematics.In The Game of Logic, Carroll presents a series of logical problems and puzzles that are designed to be solved using a system he calls "diagrams." These diagrams are a visual tool that helps the reader to understand the relationships between different logical statements and propositions.Overall, The Game of Logic is a fascinating and engaging exploration of logical reasoning and is highly recommended for anyone interested in mathematics, philosophy or logic.

Thomas Nelson Page was an American writer and lawyer who lived from 1853 to 1922. He is best known for his short stories that capture the essence of life in the American South during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. One of his most famous stories is "Santa Claus's Partner," which was first published in 1888. The story tells the tale of a poor boy named Sandy who lives in the mountains of Virginia. Sandy's father has died, and his mother is struggling to make ends meet. Despite their hardships, Sandy and his mother are determined to have a happy Christmas.One day, Sandy meets a mysterious stranger who introduces himself as Santa Claus's partner. The man is kind and generous and he gives Sandy a bag of toys to share with the other children in his village. Over the course of the story, the man continues to help Sandy and his mother and it becomes clear that he is more than just a simple stranger. "Santa Claus's Partner" is a heartwarming story about the spirit of Christmas and the kindness of strangers. It has been adapted into several different forms over the years, including a play and a musical.

"What is human nature like? Why do we act as we do? How can we make ourselves different? How can we make others different? How can we make ourselves more efficient? How can we make our lives more worth while?This book is a manual intended to help young people to obtain such knowledge of human nature as will enable them to answer these questions."

The biography of: Pascal, Newton, William Gibson, Edmund Stone, Mozart, CHARLES XII. OF SWEDEN, Robin Hood, Matthew Hopkins etc. Meet the people who help shaped the world through their contributions and achievements as artists, inventors, philanthropists, political leaders, religious leaders, scientists, writers, and others.

"This book is intended no less for those who do sleep well than for those who do not. It is just as important to be able to teach others to act well as to be able to do so ourselves. To teach we must analyze and comprehend our own action and its motives: for being able to do a thing well is far different from being able to teach it. In order to teach anything we must know how we do it and why others cannot do it. We never know anything thoroughly until we have tried to teach it to another.Many persons sleep well only because they are still, like little children and animals, in the unreflective stage of life. That is the stage of the Natural Man, and it is good in itself; but later the mental life awakes, when consciousness of one's self begins, and examination of one's own desires develops. If not rightly understood or if not at least accepted, that development brings anxiety, unrest and disturbance of sleep, and breaks the harmony of the whole nature.The highest stage of development is the spiritual, the all-conscious state which includes and harmonizes the other two. In that we do not lose the ready, overflowing enjoyment of our bodily exercises and functions; rather they are intensified; the physical and the mental are united in the complete life.In order to attain this harmony we must examine the means that we and others use to gain rest and peace; some of these are instinctive and some prudential, and we must perceive why it is that these means work or fail to work in different cases. When, with all our getting, we have gotten this understanding, then, and not till then, all action becomes natural and joyful, for then we understand it all, and follow willingly the leading of the Spirit that is in Man."

"Let no one suppose that the Author of these "Melodies" considers them poetry. They are simply rhymes, the jingle of which may be music in the children's ears, and the illustrations a delight to eager eyes. The Truths presented, even if not fully understood at first, will leave their impress, and in so far as they fill the little minds, will keep out falsehood and false ideas.The putting of facts in such form as to attract the attention of the little ones, and be readily fixed in their memory, was first suggested to the writer of these rhymes by a valued friend, the well known philanthropist, MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON, and her interest in the "Melodies" is such that she has generously assisted in procuring illustrations for the same."

"On turning over the pages of this work, some readers may possibly be surprised to find that so large a proportion of the engravings belong to one of the countries composing the Austrian empire. When, however, it is considered that a high degree of civilization tends to assimilate the manners, amusements, and dress of the great mass of the inhabitants of those countries in which it prevails; and that the people of the German states of this empire are scarcely, if at all surpassed in that respect by any nation in Europe; it will be evident that they must exhibit fewer of those peculiar characteristics which it is the object of this work to collect and delineate.Hungary stands in a very different predicament. Peopled by tribes belonging to many different nations, whose distinctive habits, manners, and prejudices have not been melted down by refinement and cultivation, it affords much more ample materials for the pencil than Austria, properly so called. For this reason, by far the greater part of the embellishments have been selected from among the singular, picturesque and romantic costumes of that kingdom and its dependant provinces."

"The first part of his journey consists of mountain crossings in terrible weather. In northern Persia they depend on mountain huts for overnight shelter. Cold, vermin and rats are all taken in stride. On one icy pass one of the pack horses (they rent animals as they go) slides to the edge of a precipice and clings by the front legs only to tumble 300 feet. Not to worry. With difficulty they go to recover their goods and find the tough little horse up and grazing on bushes. In the remainder of Persia he visits cities such as Teheran, sees some beautiful landscapes, meets characters and stays in some degree of luxury at diplomatic posts (British rule at this time) or Anglo telegraph offices/homes. The author is not what you'd call an expert on antiquities or art but loves a good bazaar and never passes up the chance to visit one in every town and village. He also comments on people and their lives (typically ruling class English but not hideous), agriculture, produce and crafts."

A captivating account of the first South to North crossing of the Australian continent on a bicycle, in 1897. "Then the bicycle, loaded now for the expedition, was lifted downstairs; I shook hands with the landlady, told her I might not be back for tea and not to keep it waiting, and quietly pedalled away..." This is how, without any sponsor, and almost no one knowing about his plan, that Jerome Murif departed from Adelaide with the firm intent to reach Port Darwin, more than 3,000 km (1,900 miles) away, and be the first to cross the Australian continent by bicycle from South to North. He did so with very little food and gear, and at a time when roads were non-existent, on a bicycle that didn't have gears or brakes. Far from the speed record attempts, Murif did his crossing at a leisurely pace, even taking time to tour the Alice Springs region on the way. This account of his journey, first published in 1897, is based heavily on his own diary; it is full of humor and captivating from the first word to the last.

"Of the various modes of communicating instruction to the uninformed, the masonic student is particularly interested in two; namely, the instruction by legends and that by symbols. It is to these two, almost exclusively, that he is indebted for all that he knows, and for all that he can know, of the philosophic system which is taught in the institution. All its mysteries and its dogmas, which constitute its philosophy, are intrusted for communication to the neophyte, sometimes to one, sometimes to the other of these two methods of instruction, and sometimes to both of them combined. The Freemason has no way of reaching any of the esoteric teachings of the Order except through the medium of a legend or a symbol.A legend differs from an historical narrative only in this-that it is without documentary evidence of authenticity. It is the offspring solely of tradition. Its details may be true in part or in whole. There may be no internal evidence to the contrary, or there may be internal evidence that they are altogether false. But neither the possibility of truth in the one case, nor the certainty of falsehood in the other, can remove the traditional narrative from the class of legends. It is a legend simply because it rests on no written foundation. It is oral, and therefore legendary."

Contains: - The Meaning, Need, and Scope of Sex-education- The Problems for Sex-education- Organization of Educational Attack On the Sex problems- Who should give sex-instruction?- Sex-instruction for Pre-adolescent Years- The problem of self-control for young men- Special Instruction for Maturing Young Women- Past and the Future of the Sex-education Movement

"There is no subject on which it is more difficult to find a common ground than this. To some people it seems to be immoral even to ask the question- on what are your moral standards based? To others what we call our "moral standards" are so obviously absurd and "unnatural" that the question has for them no meaning. And between these extremes there are so many varieties of opinion that one can take nothing as generally accepted by men and women." "Modern psychology is lifting the veil to-day from the suffering which repression causes. It is a pity that its most brilliant exponents should ascribe to a single instinct-however potent-all the ills that afflict mankind, for such one-sidedness defeats its own object; but, at least, the modern psychologist is trying to show us "exactly where each tooth-point goes" in the repression of the sex-instinct among women as among men. Nor does the fact that the tabu of society has actually in many cases enabled a woman to inhibit the development of her own nature, obviate the fact that she does so at great cost, even when she least understands what she does."

As there cannot be said to be a beaten path in philosophy, and as "Introductions" to the subject differ widely from one another, it is proper that I should give an indication of the scope of the present volume. It undertakes: 1. To point out what the word "philosophy" is made to cover in our universities and colleges at the present day, and to show why it is given this meaning. 2. To explain the nature of reflective or philosophical thinking, and to show how it differs from common thought and from science. 3. To give a general view of the main problems with which philosophers have felt called upon to deal. 4. To give an account of some of the more important types of philosophical doctrine which have arisen out of the consideration of such problems. 5. To indicate the relation of philosophy to the so-called philosophical sciences, and to the other sciences. 6. To show, finally, that the study of philosophy is of value to us all, and to give some practical admonitions on spirit and method. Had these admonitions been impressed upon me at a time when I was in especial need of guidance, I feel that they would have spared me no little anxiety and confusion of mind. For this reason, I recommend them to the attention of the reader. Such is the scope of my book. It aims to tell what philosophy is. It is not its chief object to advocate a particular type of doctrine. At the same time, as it is impossible to treat of the problems of philosophy except from some point of view, it will be found that, in Chapters III to XI, a doctrine is presented. It is the same as that presented much more in detail, and with a greater wealth of reference, in my "System of Metaphysics," which was published a short time ago. In the Notes in the back of this volume, the reader will find references to those parts of the larger work which treat of the subjects more briefly discussed here. It will be helpful to the teacher to keep the larger work on hand, and to use more or less of the material there presented as his undergraduate classes discuss the chapters of this one. Other references are also given in the Notes, and it may be profitable to direct the attention of students to them.

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"This book was written to supply a definite need. Its preparation was undertaken at the urgent request of booksellers and others who have felt the lack of a satisfactory medium of introduction to bird life for little children. As such, and in no sense whatever as a competitor with the many excellent books on this subject, but rather to supplement these, this volume has been written.Its primary purpose is to interest the little child in, and to make him acquainted with, those feathered friends he is most likely to see. Because there is no method of approach to the child mind equal to the story, this method of conveying information has been adopted. So far as I am aware the book is unique in this respect. In its preparation an earnest effort has been made to present as far as possible the important facts regarding the appearance, habits and characteristics of our feathered neighbors. It is intended to be at once a story book and an authoritative handbook. While it is intended for little children, it is hoped that children of larger growth may find in it much of both interest and helpfulness.Mr. Louis Agassiz Fuertes, artist and naturalist, has marvelously supplemented such value as may be in the text by his wonderful drawings in full color. They were made especially for this volume and are so accurate, so true to life, that study of them will enable any one to identify the species shown. I am greatly indebted to Mr. Fuertes for his cooperation in the endeavor to make this book of real assistance to the beginner in the study of our native birds.It is offered to the reader without apologies of any sort. It was written as a labor of love-love for little children and love for the birds. If as a result of it even a few children are led to a keener interest in and better understanding of our feathered friends, its purpose will have been accomplished." The Author

"By an examination of the bottom of the sea, we discover that to be fully as irregular as the surface of the earth; we there find hills and vallies, plains and cavities, rocks and soils of every kind: we there perceive that islands are only the summits of vast mountains, whose foundations are at the bottom of the Ocean; we also find other mountains whose tops are nearly on a level with the surface of the water, and rapid currents which run contrary to the general movement: they sometimes run in the same direction, at others, their motions are retrograde, but never exceeding their bounds, which appear to be as fixed and invariable as those which confine the rivers of the earth." "From repeated observations, and these incontrovertible facts, we are convinced that the dry part of the globe, which is now habitable, has remained for a long time under the waters of the sea, and consequently this earth underwent the same fluctuations and changes which the bottom of the ocean is at present actually undergoing." "(...) But it is sufficient for our present purpose to have demonstrated that mountains are not the produce of earthquakes, or other accidental causes, but that they are the effects resulting from the general order of nature, both as to their organization and the position of the materials of which they are composed."

"This book has been prepared to help you in learning about "the house you live in," and to teach you to take care of it, and keep it from being destroyed by two of its greatest enemies,-Alcohol and Nicotine.As you study its pages, be sure to find out the meaning of every word in them which you do not understand; for, if you let your tongue say what your mind knows nothing about, you are talking parrot-fashion. And do not forget that you must pay for all the knowledge you obtain,whether you are rich or poor. Nobody else can pay for you. You, your own self, must pay attention with your own mind, through your own eyes andears, or do without knowledge.Be wise: gain all the knowledge you can concerning everything worth knowing, and use it for the good of yourself and other people."KNOWLEDGE IS POWER."

"A new chapter in his life was opened by the visit which he made to Julius Cæsar in Gaul (54 B.C.). Welcomed by the victorious general as a valuable assistant in his ambitious designs, and raised by his influence to the offices of quæstor, augur, and tribune of the plebes, he displayed admirable boldness and activity in the maintenance of his patron's cause, in opposition to the violence and intrigues of the oligarchical party. At length his antagonists prevailed, and expelled him from the curia; and the political contest became a civil war. The Rubicon was crossed; Cæsar was victorious, and Antony shared in his triumph. Deputy-governor of Italy during Cæsar's absence in Spain, second in command in the decisive battle of Pharsalia, and again deputy-governor of Italy while Cæsar was in Africa, Antony was now inferior in power only to the dictator himself, and eagerly seized the opportunity of indulging in the most extravagant excesses of luxurious licentiousness-excesses which Cicero depicted in the "Philippics" with all the elaborate eloquence of political hatred." (about MARC ANTONY)"The authority of the new emperor was recognized at once all the Empire over. The novel fact that a master of the Romans should have been born on Spanish soil seems to have passed with little remark, and this very absence of notice is significant. Trajan's first care as emperor was to write to the Senate an assurance like that which had been given by Nerva, that he would neither kill nor degrade any senator. He ordered the establishment of a temple and cult in honor of his adoptive father, but he did not present himself at Rome for nearly two years after his accession. Possibly he had taken measures before Nerva's death to secure the revenge which Nerva craved, but probably did not live to see." (about TRAJAN)"Early in 1067 William made a progress through the eastern and central parts of his new dominions. All that had as yet submitted to him was comprised in the old kingdoms of Wessex and East Anglia, and a small portion of Mercia. He at once secured his hold over these districts by the erection of fortresses in London, Norwich, and elsewhere. He received homage from the great men; he confiscated the lands of those who had resisted him; and, while keeping a large number of manors for himself, he granted others to his followers. Even those who had not resisted were regarded as having legally forfeited their title and had to submit to a regrant on less advantageous terms. In March, 1067, William returned to Normandy, taking with him as hostages the Earls Eadwine, Morkere, and Waltheof." (about WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR)

"Not long ago, I happened upon an instance of the teaching power of these nonsense tales, so amusing and convincing that I cannot forbear to share it. A primary teacher who heard me tell Epaminondas one evening, told it to her pupils the next morning, with great effect. A young teacher who was observing in the room at the time told me what befell. She said the children laughed very heartily over the story, and evidently liked it much.About an hour later, one of them was sent to the board to do a little problem. It happened that the child made an excessively foolish mistake, and did not notice it. As he glanced at the teacher for the familiar smile of encouragement, she simply raised her hands, and ejaculated, "'For the law's sake!'"It was sufficient. The child took the cue instantly. He looked hastily at his work, broke into an irrepressible giggle, rubbed the figures out, without a word, and began again. And the whole class entered into the joke with the gusto of fellow-fools, for once wise.It is safe to assume that the child in question will make fewer needless mistakes for a long time because of the wholesome reminder of his likeness with one who "ain't got the sense he was born with." And what occurred so visibly in his case goes on quietly in the hidden recesses of the mind in many cases. One Epaminondas is worth three lectures."

"The two-fold object which we desire to attain in the following pages, and to which we earnestly entreat the attention of our readers, is the exposure and amendment of a vast social evil, which we have reason to believe has, to most reflecting men, become well nigh intolerable. It will be obvious that to bring this evil, with effect, to the bar of public opinion, we must probe it to the very core, and fearlessly unveil and drag into the light its indecent mysteries. In so doing we shall doubtless incur the censures of those easygoing people who agree with the poet that "Where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise;" who, like the bird of the desert, by hiding their heads deem their bodies out of danger; who, dead to all the generous sympathies which elevate man above the brute, would reduce the minds of others to their own dull and dreary level of stolid inanity; of those prudent persons who, closing their eyes to the lightning flash and their ears to the vollied thunder, sneak through the world by any side-path sooner than encounter a difficulty foot to foot and hand to hand; and, without pretending to any extraordinary knowledge of the human heart, we fear, of the majority of those women who have already sacrificed their modesty at the altar of custom; and, above all, of that class whose presumptuous charlatanism we desire to lay bare. But for all this we care not one jot, provided the mists of imposture be dispelled, and our countrywomen rescued from the disgrace and degradation of an odious system, which, originating in a dissolute age, has since been promoted and encouraged by self-interested empirics, and sanctioned by indifference, credulity, and error."

"The progress of modern Science has given rise to not a few objections against the truths of Revelation. And of these there is none which seems to have taken such a firm hold of the public mind in England, and, indeed, throughout Europe generally, as that which is derived from the interesting and startling discoveries of Geology. Accordingly, when I was engaged, some years ago, in explaining and defending the Evidences of Revealed Religion, I found myself brought face to face with Geological phenomena and Geological speculations.It was plainly impossible to consider, in a candid and philosophical spirit, the argument with which I had to deal, so long as I remained ignorant of the evidence on which it was based. I resolved, therefore, to make myself familiar with the leading principles and the leading facts of Geology. And thus I was drawn insensibly into the study of this science; to which I have devoted, for some years, the greater part of my leisure hours."

"The following reminiscences after due and careful consideration, are dedicated to the young, who are pausing at the portals of manhood, as well as womanhood, and who are confronted with illusory visions and representations, the goal of which is but seldom attained, even by the fewest fortunates, and then only by unforeseen circumstances and haphazards, not illustrated in the mapped out program for future welfare, greatness and success.Often the most sanguine persons have such optimistic illusions, which, nunless most carefully considered will lead them into irreparable errors. Even the political changes, often times necessary in the government of men, are great factors to smash into fragments the best and most illusory plans, and cast into the shadow, for a time being at least, the kindliest, philanthropic and best intentions of individual efforts, until the Wheel of Fortune again turns in his direction, casting a few sparks of hope in his ultimate favor, and which is seldom realized.If the reader of the above has been induced to think and carefully consider, before acting hastily, the writer feels that he has accomplished some good in the current affairs of human events."

EVERY medical man who will study to investigate as far as possible, in every case, the original channel through which disease or constitutional disorder first found its entry into the system, will be astonished at the mass of human suffering which may be traced up to a venereal origin, although its primary symptoms may have been for years apparently eradicated from the frame. The malady generally commences its attack in early life, before experience has overcome the short-sighted heedlessness of youth, and taught it to look beyond the pains and pleasures of the passing moment. Delicacy or shame will not allow him to seek assistance, until the poison has acquired strength and virulence too alarming to be neglected; and the patient then, instead of applying to his usual professional friends, flies to some empirical practitioner, who temporarily arrests the external symptoms, and discharges him as cured. Thus matters go on, until the malady becomes constitutional; and the patient is at last compelled to place himself under the treatment of those who, at an earlier period, might have preserved his constitution untainted, and his body comparatively uninjured by the ravages of this insidious disease.

"DURING the painful illness of full four months which terminated in the death of Ludwig van Beethoven, he was one day conversing with Hofrath von Breuning and myself on the subject of Plutarch's Lives. Breuning took advantage of the long-wished-for opportunity to ask Beethoven, apparently without any particular object, which of his contemporaries he should prefer for his biographer. Without the least hesitation, he replied, "Rochlitz, if he should survive me." He went on to say that it might be anticipated with certainty, that after his decease many officious pens would hasten to amuse the world with stories and anecdotes concerning him, utterly destitute of truth-for such is the usual lot of those who have had any influence upon their times. It was, therefore, his sincere wish that whatever might hereafter be said concerning him "should be in every respect strictly consonant with truth, no matter how hard it might bear upon this or the other person, oreven upon himself."This sentiment of Beethoven's, uttered at a moment when his dissolution appeared to us to be near at hand-though his physicians still held out to him some hopes of recovery, while at the same time they felt thoroughly convinced of its impossibility-this sentiment was too important for us to neglect following it up. In so doing, however, we were obliged to proceed with the utmost caution; as indeed we were in everything which, in his stateof severe suffering, had any reference, however remote, to death: for his imagination, more excited than when in health, ranged through the universe, formed projects of tours, of prodigious compositions, and other enterprises. In short, he had no idea that death was so near, neither would he take any warning of its approach. In fact, all his desire was to live; for he still intended to do much, that none but himself, perhaps, was capable of accomplishing."

"Those who believe that the creation and government of the world are the work of a Being Whom it is their duty to love with all their hearts, Who loves them with a love beyond all other love, to Whom they look for guidance now and unending happiness hereafter, have a double motive for studying the forms and operations of Nature; because over and above whatever they may gain of the purest and highest pleasure in the study, and whatever men may gain of material comfort in a thousand forms from the results of the study, they cannot but have always present to their minds the thought, that all these things are revelations of His character, and to know them is in a very real measure to know Him. The believer in God, if he have the faculty and the opportunity, cannot find a more proper employment of time and labour and thought than the study of the ways in which God works and the things which God has made. Among religious men we ought to expect to find the most patient, the most truth-seeking, the most courageous of men of science.We know that it is not always so; and that on the contrary Science and Religion seem very often to be the most determined foes to each other that can be found. The scientific man often asserts that he cannot find God in Science; and the religious man often asserts that he cannot find Science in God. Each often believes himself to be in possession, if not of the whole truth, at any rate of all the truth that it is most important to possess. Science seems to despise religion; and religion to fear and condemn Science.Religion, which certainly ought to put truth at the highest, is charged with refusing to acknowledge truth that has been proved. And Science, which certainly ought to insist on demonstrating every assertion which it makes, is charged with giving the rein to the imagination and treating the merest speculations as well-established facts."