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Author : Robert Lynd
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664629913
"A man who does not defend the honor of his cat cannot be trusted to defend anything." - says Robert Lynd in the essay "Cats." Find more exciting and funny truths about our lives in this wonderful collection of essays.
Author : Robert Lynd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798630480750
It is impossible to take a walk in the country with an average townsman-especially, perhaps, in April or May-without being amazed at the vast continent of his ignorance. It is impossible to take a walk in the country oneself without being amazed at the vast continent of one's own ignorance. Thousands of men and women live and die without knowing the difference between a beech and an elm, between the song of a thrush and the song of a blackbird. Probably in a modern city the man who can distinguish between a thrush's and a blackbird's song is the exception. It is not that we have not seen the birds. It is simply that we have not noticed them. We have been surrounded by birds all our lives, yet so feeble is our observation that many of us could not tell whether or not the chaffinch sings, or the colour of the cuckoo. We argue like small boys as to whether the cuckoo always sings as he flies or sometimes in the branches of a tree-whether Chapman drew on his fancy or his knowledge of nature in the lines
Author : Robert Lynd
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Essays
ISBN : 1414249306
Author : Robert Lynd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:561411124
Author : Robert Lynd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1715561740
Robert Wilson Lynd (1879 -1949) was an Irish writer, editor of poetry, urbane literary essayist and strong Irish nationalist. Lynd was educated at Royal Belfast Academical Institution, studying at Queen's University. His father served a term as Presbyterian Church Moderator but he was just one of a long line of Presbyterian clergy in the family. He began as a journalist on The Northern Whig in Belfast. He also wrote for the Daily News (later the News Chronicle), being its literary editor 1912-47. He used the pseudonym YY (Ys, or wise) in writing for the New Statesman. According to C. H. Rolph's Kingsley (1973), Lynd's weekly essay, which ran from 1913 to 1945, was "irreplaceable".
Author : Robert Lynd,James Zimmerhoff
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1548374326
This ignorance, however, is not altogether miserable. Out of it we get the constant pleasure of discovery. Every fact of nature comes to us each spring, if only we are sufficiently ignorant, with the dew still on it. If we have lived half a lifetime without having ever even seen a cuckoo, and know it only as a wandering voice, we are all the more delighted at the spectacle of its runaway flight as it hurries from wood to wood conscious of its crimes, and at the way in which it halts hawk-like in the wind, its long tail quivering, before it dares descend on a hill-side of fir-trees where avenging presences may lurk. It would be absurd to pretend that the naturalist does not also find pleasure in observing the life of the birds, but his is a steady pleasure, almost a sober and plodding occupation, compared to the morning enthusiasm of the man who sees a cuckoo for the first time, and, behold, the world is made new. And, as to that, the happiness even of the naturalist depends in some measure upon his ignorance, which still leaves him new worlds of this kind to conquer. He may have reached the very Z of knowledge in the books, but he still feels half ignorant until he has confirmed each bright particular with his eyes. He wishes with his own eyes to see the female cuckoo-rare spectacle!-as she lays her egg on the ground and takes it in her bill to the nest in which it is destined to breed infanticide. He would sit day after day with a field-glass against his eyes in order personally to endorse or refute the evidence suggesting that the cuckoo does lay on the ground and not in a nest. And, if he is so far fortunate as to discover this most secretive of birds in the very act of laying, there still remain for him other fields to conquer in a multitude of such disputed questions as whether the cuckoo's egg is always of the same colour as the other eggs in the nest in which she abandons it. Assuredly the men of science have no reason as yet to weep over their lost ignorance. If they seem to know everything, it is only because you and I know almost nothing. There will always be a fortune of ignorance waiting for them under every fact they turn up. They will never know what song the Sirens sang to Ulysses any more than Sir Thomas Browne did.
Author : Richard P. Feynman
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780465013128
This collection from scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner highlights the achievements of a man whose career reshaped the world's understanding of quantum electrodynamics. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman-from interviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles. A sweeping, wide-ranging collection, it presents an intimate and fascinating view of a life in science-a life like no other. From his ruminations on science in our culture to his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, this book will fascinate anyone interested in the world of ideas.
Author : Stuart Firestein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199939336
Knowledge is a big subject, says Stuart Firestein, but ignorance is a bigger one. And it is ignorance--not knowledge--that is the true engine of science. Most of us have a false impression of science as a surefire, deliberate, step-by-step method for finding things out and getting things done. In fact, says Firestein, more often than not, science is like looking for a black cat in a dark room, and there may not be a cat in the room. The process is more hit-or-miss than you might imagine, with much stumbling and groping after phantoms. But it is exactly this "not knowing," this puzzling over thorny questions or inexplicable data, that gets researchers into the lab early and keeps them there late, the thing that propels them, the very driving force of science. Firestein shows how scientists use ignorance to program their work, to identify what should be done, what the next steps are, and where they should concentrate their energies. And he includes a catalog of how scientists use ignorance, consciously or unconsciously--a remarkable range of approaches that includes looking for connections to other research, revisiting apparently settled questions, using small questions to get at big ones, and tackling a problem simply out of curiosity. The book concludes with four case histories--in cognitive psychology, theoretical physics, astronomy, and neuroscience--that provide a feel for the nuts and bolts of ignorance, the day-to-day battle that goes on in scientific laboratories and in scientific minds with questions that range from the quotidian to the profound. Turning the conventional idea about science on its head, Ignorance opens a new window on the true nature of research. It is a must-read for anyone curious about science.
Author : James Warren
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107025448
How did ancient philosophers understand the relationship between human capacities for thinking and our experiences of pleasure and pain?
Author : Aristotle
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781425000868
Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" is considered to be one of the most important treatises on ethics ever written. In an incredibly detailed study of virtue and vice in man, Aristotle examines one of the most central themes to man, the nature of goodness itself. In Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics," he asserts that virtue is essential to happiness and that man must live in accordance with the "doctrine of the mean" (the balance between excess and deficiency) to achieve such happiness.
Author : Robert Lynd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798630480736
It is impossible to take a walk in the country with an average townsman--especially, perhaps, in April or May--without being amazed at the vast continent of his ignorance. It is impossible to take a walk in the country oneself without being amazed at the vast continent of one's own ignorance. Thousands of men and women live and die without knowing the difference between a beech and an elm, between the song of a thrush and the song of a blackbird. Probably in a modern city the man who can distinguish between a thrush's and a blackbird's song is the exception. It is not that we have not seen the birds. It is simply that we have not noticed them. We have been surrounded by birds all our lives, yet so feeble is our observation that many of us could not tell whether or not the chaffinch sings, or the colour of the cuckoo. We argue like small boys as to whether the cuckoo always sings as he flies or sometimes in the branches of a tree--whether Chapman drew on his fancy or his knowledge of nature in the lines
Author : Mark Akenside
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1821
Category : Imagination
ISBN : NYPL:33433112065580
Author : Robert Lynd
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1016445938
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Author : Robert Lynd
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664624307
"The Book of This and That" by Robert Lynd. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : George Lamming
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0472064665
An examination of the effects of colonialism on those who are held in check