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. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... of art, poetry--in short, with all that enriches our minds, forms our characters, and quickens our feelings? Have we only ourselves to thank for this, or merely the people of our own country? Let us begin with the Bible. Were Moses or the prophets and apostles English, German, or Swiss? Were not the founders ...
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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. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... of art, poetry--in short, with all that enriches our minds, forms our characters, and quickens our feelings? Have we only ourselves to thank for this, or merely the people of our own country? Let us begin with the Bible. Were Moses or the prophets and apostles English, German, or Swiss? Were not the founders of the Christian Church chiefly Romans and Greeks? And were not the Irish monks the first to bring Christianity to the Britons, the Germans, and the Swiss? Did they not then wander out from their monasteries into the forests and over the country spreading culture in their train?J Then again, take the origin of our sciences--medicine, chemistry, and natural sciences--who knows the people and can tell the names of all who have contributed to these? In that most ancient of sciences, astronomy alone, how many have toiled? Chinese, Assyrians Egyptians, Greeks. Everything we know has been gained by the united thought and observation of all the civilised people of the world. One learns from the other. In the discovery of an important planet, or in the calculations concerning its course, many observatories in different countries co-operate. You have learnt that the earth moves round the sun and laugh pityingly at the idea of olden times that the sun moves round our little earth. But you must remember that many men puzzled their brains and anxiously compared observations on this subject. One of them was inspired by the thought that the earth moves round the sun, a thought which solves many difficulties. This was the ancient Greek Aristarchus. Men would not, of course, accept this teaching without further proof. Then there was another who tried to prove conclusively that the earth was the centre of the universe, and that the sun and other celestial...
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First U.k. Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp ix, 217. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered gilt on spine. The publisher's own retained copy with their ink stamp reading, 'file' on the front endpaper and label on the front cover showing the publishing price. Slight rubbing at spine, otherwise very good.
