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" With all its novel modern powers and practical sense, I am forced to admit that the purely scientific brain is miserably mechanical ; it seems to have become a splendid sort of self-directed machine, an incredible automaton, grinding on with its analyses... "
Book and Heart: Essays on Literature and Life - Page 33
by Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1897 - 237 pages
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Education

Education - 1903 - 710 pages
...Clarence King, former director of the United States Geological Survey, writing from his side, says, " With all its novel powers and practical sense, I am...sort of selfdirected machine, an incredible automaton But for pure sentiment, for all that spontaneous joyous Greek waywardness of fancy, for the temperature...
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The Forum, Volume 13

Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, George Henry Payne, Henry Goddard Leach - History - 1891 - 856 pages
...strangely better done than the classics. With all its novel modern powers and practical sense, I am forced to admit that the purely scientific brain is miserably...waywardness of fancy, for the temperature of passion and the subtler thrill of ideality, you might as well look to a wrought-iron derrick. Science found education...
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The Review of Reviews, Volume 5

William Thomas Stead - Europe - 1892 - 682 pages
...sequences of human nature, instead of crassly thwarting them on every side as we do at present : — The purely scientific brain is miserably mechanical...for all that spontaneous, joyous Greek waywardness cf fancy, for the temperature of passion and the subtltr thrill of ideality, you might as wtll look...
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The Magazine of Christian Literature, Volumes 8-9

Christianity - 1893 - 1376 pages
...mind. The following is by Clarence King, formerly Director of the United States Geological Survey : " With all its novel powers and practical sense, I am...mechanical; it seems to have become a splendid sort of self -directed machine, an incredible automaton, grinding on with its analyses or constructions. But...
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The Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 16

Frederick Converse Beach - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1904 - 1358 pages
...thus a little before his death : "With all its novel modern powers and practical sense, I am forced to admit that the purely scientific brain is miserably...waywardness of fancy, for the temperature of passion and the subtler thrill of ideality, you might as well look to a wrought-iron derrick." Whatever charges can...
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Carlyle's Laugh, and Other Surprises

Thomas Wentworth Higginson - American literature - 1909 - 412 pages
...thus a little before his death : " With all its novel modern powers and practical sense, I am forced to admit that the purely scientific brain is miserably...waywardness of fancy, for the temperature of passion and the subtler thrill of ideality, you might as well look to a wrought-iron derrick." Whatever charges can...
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The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts ..., Volume 21

Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1912 - 822 pages
...thus a little before his death : "With all its novel modern powers and practical sense, I am forced to admit that the purely scientific brain is miserably...waywardness of fancy, for the temperature of passion and the subtler thrill of ideality, you might as well look to a wrought-iron derrick.* Whatever charges can...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 100

American literature - 1907 - 892 pages
...thus a little before his death : "With all its novel modern powers and practical sense, I am forced to admit that the purely scientific brain is miserably...grinding on with its analyses or constructions. But forpure sentiment, for all that spontaneous, joyous Greek waywardness of fancy, for the temperature...
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The Humboldt Current: A European Explorer and His American Disciples

Aaron Sachs - Environmentalism - 2007 - 510 pages
...philosopher's assertion that "the scientific conscience is an abyss. "69 What King concluded on his own is that "the purely scientific brain is miserably mechanical;...incredible automaton, grinding on with its analyses and constructions" — that in fact it might have the power to kill the aesthetic perspective in his...
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The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of ...

Aaron Sachs - History - 2007 - 516 pages
...philosopher's assertion that "the scientific conscience is an abyss."69 What King concluded on his own is that "the purely scientific brain is miserably mechanical;...incredible automaton, grinding on with its analyses and constructions" — that in fact it might have the power to kill the aesthetic perspective in his...
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