This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...long it takes to get round, &c. &c. He does the same with the stars and the sun. Doctors. Then comes the man of genius, who puts two and two together, and finds out all about it. The Cattle The cattle doctors, during the cattle plague, were quite unable to see the analogy that existed between The mistake the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...long it takes to get round, &c. &c. He does the same with the stars and the sun. Doctors. Then comes the man of genius, who puts two and two together, and finds out all about it. The Cattle The cattle doctors, during the cattle plague, were quite unable to see the analogy that existed between The mistake the men of genius are apt to make is, that they are the salt of the earth. I am afraid this is rarely the case, however useful to mankind their intellects may be. Professor Bain says, that human nature' seems so limited, that when great preponderance of intellect exists, there will generally be observed a deficiency in moral and religious qualities. Even Socrates has been accused of a tendency to hard utilitarianism and a want of human affections. The deficiencies of Voltaire, Rousseau, and Bacon are proverbial. Goethe is often called a heathen and a selfish egotist. Descartes has been described as a man without feeling. The French proverb says, "bon poete mauvais homme;" and even of Newton, Bain says, that beyond violence of temper, his moral qualities were negative. A German saying says, "all great men are monsters." "Great wit to madness nearly is allied;" and there is a terrible connection between madness and badness. Charles Reed says, that three parts of the genius of England is shut up in madhouses. Many a despised mere fact collector and "sense-machine" is really infinitely superior to many a vast genius; for he will be a man, and not a mere intellect. Perhaps about the most remarkable feature in Christianity was, putting for the first time in the history of the world moral and religious before intellectual excellence. ' Whether there be knowledge it shall vanish away." "The wisdom...
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