The modes of origin of lowest organisms: including a discussion of the experiments of M. PasteurBastian, H. Charlton
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The modes of origin of lowest organisms: including a discussion of the experiments of M. Pasteur
Bastian, H. Charlton
Life -- Origin; Spontaneous generation
“_The following year was memorable for the commencement of the
‘Guesses at Truth.’ He and his Oxford brother, living as they did in
constant and free interchange of thought on questions of philosophy
and literature and art; delighting, each of them, in the epigrammatic
terseness which is the charm of the ‘Pensées’ of Pascal, and the
‘Caractères’ of La Bruyère--agreed to utter themselves in this form,
and the book appeared, anonymously, in two volumes, in 1827._”--MEMOIR.
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character of the book: A Walk on the Lancashire Moors; the Author his
own Housekeeper and Cook; Tents and Boats for the Highlands; The Author
encamps on an uninhabited Island; A Lake Voyage; A Gipsy Journey to
Glen Coe; Concerning Moonlight and Old Castles; A little French City; A
Farm in the Autunois, &c. &c._
“_His pages sparkle with many turns of expression, not a few well-told
anecdotes, and many observations which are the fruit of attentive study
and wise reflection on the complicated phenomena of human life, as well
as of unconscious nature._”--WESTMINSTER REVIEW.
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POTTER, &c. Royal 8vo. Half morocco. 31_s._ 6_d._
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proud. It is a work, too, of which none but a genuine artist could by
possibility have been the author._”--SATURDAY REVIEW.
*Herschel.*--THE ILIAD OF HOMER. Translated into English Hexameters. By
Sir JOHN HERSCHEL, Bart. 8vo. 18_s._
_A version of the Iliad in English Hexameters. The question of Homeric
translation is fully discussed in the Preface._
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man’s tribute to Genius._”--ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS.
HIATUS: the Void in Modern Education. Its Cause and Antidote. By OUTIS.
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_The main object of this Essay is to point out how the emotional
element which underlies the Fine Arts is disregarded and undeveloped at
this time so far as (despite a pretence at filling it up) to constitute
an Educational Hiatus._
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