An Address Delivered at the Twenty-First Anniversary of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College: July 15th, 1867 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Lyman, Chester Smith

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ISBN 10: 1333129823 ISBN 13: 9781333129828

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from An Address Delivered at the Twenty-First Anniversary of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College: July 15th, 1867

Appearing before you to-night, at the request of my asso ciates, to close these Anniversary Exercises, I invite your attention to some thoughts which have occurred to me as suitable to the occasion, but which pertain rather to the prac tics] and utilitarian side of life and learning than to the aesthetic and imaginative. For this feature of them, however, I deem it unnecessary to apologize, since nature herself teaches us, by innumerable examples, that there is, in her domain at least, no necessary antagonism between the Useful and the Beautiful; between those qualities of things by which they minister to man's physical wants, and those by which they gratify his tastes, and his intellectual and moral susceptibili ties On the contrary, she more commonly exhibits the twu in closest harmony. Beautiful blossom and nutritious fruit are borne by the same tree. The useful potato rejoices in a delicate flower. The same substance that, as coal, drives our engines and warms our dwellings, as diamond, adds luster tn the charms of beauty, and splendor to the coronets of kings. The stream, that woos the poet to its shaded brink, and inspires him with the music of its flow, turns also the laboring mill wheel, and ministers assiduously to the success of industry. The sun, that flushes the dawn with rosy light. And in his glorious rising bathes the earth and the heavens with beauty and gladness, serves also, as an index on a dial, to divide out for man the indispensable alternations of day and night, ofsummer and winter, of seed time and harvest, and is to the world the inexhaustible source of those subtle energies which play so essential a part in all the vital and physical phenom ena of the globe, and without which the globe itself were but a realm of perpetual silence, darkness and death.

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Excerpt from An Address Delivered at the Twenty-First Anniversary of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College: July 15th, 1867

This demand has obviously arisen, partly from the rapid development of the Sciences in recent times, and the conse quent extension of the boundaries of human knowledge and partly from the growth of the Arts with advancing civilization, and the consequent demand for new applications of Science in aid of these Arts, and of the general operations of industry.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1333129823
• ISBN 13: 9781333129828
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 36