The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
“Technical Education,”—Thomas Henry Huxley.
Thomas Henry Huxley, a renowned English scientist, was born in Ealing, May 4, 1825, and died June 29, 1895. Among his famous works are: “Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature,” “On the Educational Value of the Natural-History Sciences,” “Lectures on the Elements of Comparative Anatomy,” “Lessons in Elementary Physiology,” “On the Physical Basis of Life,” “Half Hours with Modern Scientists,” “American Addresses,” “An Introduction to the Classification of Animals,” “Science and Culture, and Other Essays,” etc., etc.
Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.
—John W. Draper.
John William Draper, a famous physiologist, historical and miscellaneous prose-writer, was born near Liverpool, England, May 5, 1811, and died at Hastings-on-the-Hudson, N. Y., January 4, 1882. He has written: “Human Physiology,” “History of the Intellectual Development of Europe,” “History of the American Civil War,” and his most celebrated work, “History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science.”
In La Fontaine there is an affluence of poetry which is found in no other French author.
“Literary Judgments,”—Joseph Joubert.
Joseph Joubert, an eminent French moralist and writer of aphorisms, was born in Montignac, Périgord, May 6, 1754, and died at Paris in 1824. Most of his epigrammatic work was published after his death, the titles of the volumes being, “Thoughts,” and “Thoughts, Essays, Maxims, and Correspondence.”
I feel the breath of the summer night,
Aromatic fire;
The trees, the vines the flowers are astir
With tender desire.