 | Education - 1864 - 704 pages
...improvement of waste and exhausted regions, and incidentally to illustrate the doctrine that man is, in both kind and degree, a power of a higher order than any of the other forms of animated life. The writer does not address himself to professed physicists, but to the general intelligence of educated,... | |
 | Bibliography, National - 1863 - 444 pages
...improvement of wuste nod exhausted regions; and, incidentally, to illustrate the doctrine, that man is, in both kind and degree, a power of a higher order than any oí the forms of iiuhnau'd life, which, like him, are nourished at the table of bounteous nature. 1;... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - Conservation of natural resources - 1864 - 592 pages
...improvement of waste and exhausted regions ; and, incidentally, to illustrate the doctrine, that man is, in both kind and degree, a power of a higher order than any of the other forms ot animated life, which, like him, are nourished at the table of bounteous nature. In the rudest stages... | |
 | Education - 1865 - 594 pages
...improvement of waste and exhausted regions ; and, incidentally, to illustrate the doctrine, that man is, in both kind and degree, a power of a higher order than...him, are nourished at the table of bounteous nature." We have not space for such a notice in this number as shall do justice to the manner in which these... | |
 | Achille Auguste Cazin - Heat - 1869 - 334 pages
...improvement of waste and exhausted regions ; and incidentally, to illustrate the doctrine that man is, in both kind and degree, a power of a higher order than...nourished at the table of bounteous nature." The author addresses himself " not to professed physicists, but to the general intelligence of educated, observing,... | |
 | Theodor Mommsen - Rome - 1870 - 618 pages
...improvement of waste and exhausted regions ; and incidentally, to illustrate the doctrine that man is, in both kind and degree, a power of a higher order than...nourished at the table of bounteous nature." The author addresses himself " not to professed physicists, but to the general intelligence of educated, observing,... | |
 | Fulgence Marion - Physical optics - 1870 - 320 pages
...improvement of waste and exhausted regions ; and incidentally, to illustrate the doctrine that man is, in both kind and degree, a power of a higher order than...nourished at the table of bounteous nature." The author addresses himself " not to professed physicists, but to the general intelligence of educated, observing,... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - Conservation of natural resources - 1874 - 702 pages
...improvement of waste and exhausted regions ; and, incidentally, to illustrate the doctrine that man is, in both kind and degree, a power of a higher order than...him, are nourished at the table of bounteous nature. culent vegetables and certain fowls and quadrupeds, and, at the same time, -ware upon rival organisms... | |
 | Arnold Guyot - Human geography - 1890 - 388 pages
...of the organic or the inorganic world, and incidentally, to illustrate the doctrine that man is in both kind and degree a power of a higher order than any of the other forms of animated life." THE LONDON SPECTATOR. —-The book, though it is, as we have said, scientific in method, IB Intended... | |
 | 1893 - 226 pages
...improvement of waste and exhansted regions; and incidentally to illustrate the doctrine that man is, in both kind and degree, a power of a higher order than...the other forms of animated life, which, like him, ate nourished at the table of bounteous nature." XI. THE HISTORICAL METHOD. Sidgwick: Tho Historical... | |
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... interfere with the spontaneous arrangements of the organic or the inorganic world ; to suggest the possibility and the importance of the restoration of disturbed harmonies, and the material improvement of waste and exhausted regions ; and, incidentally,... 
