...is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before the fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every...preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever end nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. ... I have only begun to learn content and peace...

...found not only that to live is to learn, but that to learn is to live. Huxley said: "Sit down betöre a fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every...preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing." Mrs. Hooker has done this. Not that she...

...they may lead. Huxley's advice might well be the motto written over the gates of this institution: "Sit down before fact as a little child; be prepared to give up any pre-conceived notion; follow humbly wherein and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall...

...like to read you an extract from a private letter of Huxley's which a friend once sent to me : — ' " Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest...preconceived notion, follow humbly, wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace...

...following1 words of Huxley, and say whether they are not obviously sincere, and genuinely religious : " Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest...entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before facts as a little child, follow humbly wherever nature leads, or you shall learn nothing." "In moments...

...Huxley, by his son, we find this singular illustration from the experience of the great scientist : ' Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest...in the Christian conception of entire surrender to God. Sit down before fact as a little child ; be prepared to give up any preconceived notion ; follow...

...Hubbard, of The Philistine: " This is a great book ... it surely makes men think." " Sit down before a fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every...preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing." — Thomas Huxley. FUNK 6- WAGNALLS COMPANY,...

...keen men of scientific attitude, who followed the dictum of Huxley when he said, " Sit down before a fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every...preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing." It is to be regretted that Huxley did not...

...of a hungering and thirsting after truth? In his "Life and Letters" he betrays his state of mind. " Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner," he says, "the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender of the...

...Life; and in the measure that we feed on Him we become what He is. — GEORGE TYRRELL, Lex Credendi. Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest...preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. — TH HUXLEY, Life and Letters, vol. i,...