 | Criticism - 1860 - 1172 pages
...this was the proper home for a hero in didactics. We are not among those who regret this reputation. If " on earth there is nothing great but man, and in man there is nothing great but mind." then they who train the mind have the noblest calling, and the State which excels in the education... | |
 | James Maxwell - Black people - 1848 - 108 pages
...eminently useful in forwarding commercial and agricultural pursuits. 29 It has been beautifully said that " on earth there is nothing great but man, and in man there is nothing great but mind." One hundred millions of our fellow-creatures, with minds as blank and barren as the sand of their desert... | |
 | John Stevenson Bushnan - Burton upon Trent (England) - 1853 - 188 pages
...visible emblems of his inward spirit ; for, as an ancient but forgotten philosopher finely remarked — " On earth there is nothing great but man, and in man there is nothing great but mind." The importance of man's outer garments may unconditionally be admitted ; but he must have food as well... | |
 | Gilbert Rorison - Evolution - 1861 - 192 pages
...from classic antiquity. . . . "Men are mortal gods, and gods are immortal men." . . . "In the world there is nothing great but Man, and in Man there is nothing great but Mind." 95. Compare the profound legend of Pan-dora. 96. Owen, Vertebrate Skeleton, p. 197. 97. Bell On the... | |
 | Michigan. Department of Public Instruction - Education - 1868 - 328 pages
...rarely fail to be misappropriated. I close this, my second Annual Report, with a profound sense of gratitude to Almighty God, that I have been permitted...immortality. Who is sufficient for these things? BRANCH COUNTY—AA LUCE, SUP'T. Since receiving the appointment to the office of Superintedent of schools... | |
 | 1868 - 330 pages
...family, and the accomplished editor, and every reader ! HABIT:-A LECTURE TO YOUNG MEN. SOME one says, " On earth there is nothing great but man, and in man there is nothing great but mind." There is, therefore, no inquiry so interesting and important as that which engages itself with the... | |
 | Noah Porter - History - 1869 - 752 pages
...the propriety of assuming the relation of adaptation in all our interpretations of nature. If "on the earth there is nothing great but man, and in man, there is nothing great but mind," it is emphatically true that in the mind there is nothing great bat the reason which proposes and discovers... | |
 | Noah Porter - Intellect - 1871 - 604 pages
...propriety of assuming the relation of adaptation in all our interpretations of nature. If " on the earth there is nothing great but man, and in man, there is nothing great but mind," it is emphatically true that in the mind there is nothing great but the reason which proposes and discovers... | |
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