 | John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1914 - 1514 páginas
...Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. The coming Age of the Origin of Species. It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. Ibid. Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. Animal Automatism.... | |
 | James Francis Abbott - 1914 - 372 páginas
...accumulation of data on which he based his generalization, and he was not unaware 1 "History warns us, that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heiesies and to end as superstitions; and, as matters now stand, it is hardly rash to anticipate that,... | |
 | James McKeen Cattell, Will Carson Ryan, Raymond Walters - 1926 - 844 páginas
...and so to exclude later arrivals, as they formerly had been kept back. Huxley says: History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is... | |
 | 1911 - 514 páginas
...give a quotation from outside Prof. Judd's book, but it is not from an opponent. Huxley wrote* : — " History warns us, however, that it is the customary...to anticipate that, in another twenty years,} the new generation, educated under the influences of the present day, will be in danger of accepting the... | |
 | 1915 - 754 páginas
...with a world of difference in ultimate meaning is the observation of Huxley that " history warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions." Science, then, is not infallible and never can be. Equally lacking is the quality of infallibility... | |
 | Frederick Paul Keppel - 1917 - 408 páginas
...Mrs. Parsons, " the most important if but little noticed social fact of our times." History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions, and the grandfather of the college Socialist of to-day probably spoke under his breath of being an evolutionist.... | |
 | Mrs. Stuart Menzies - 1922 - 296 páginas
...may be quite different to anything we have seen or known, so there is no certainty. History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end as superstitions, and all have to be new at some time. After much thought I have come to the conclusion... | |
 | 1926 - 228 páginas
...and so to exclude later arrivals, as they formerly had been kept back. Huxley says: History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 páginas
...is. And nothing's truer than them." David Copperfield Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English novelist It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions. Thomas H. Huxley (1825-1895) English biologist I am convinced that the desire to formulate truths is... | |
 | William Irwin Thompson - 1990 - 484 páginas
...the idea rests as a certainty in the hands of a bureaucracy of pedants. As Thomas Huxley said: "It is customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions." If we look at the history of the idea of evolution, we see this process at work. First the eccentric... | |
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History warns us, however, that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions ; and, as matters now stand, it is hardly rash to anticipate that, in another twenty years, the new generation, educated under the... 
