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[ the great river, the river of Babylon: cf. Genesis xv, 18]
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[ Without haste, but without rest: from Goethe's Zahme Xenien. In a letter to his sister, Huxley says: "And then perhaps by the following of my favorite motto,—
"'Wie das Gestirn,
Ohne Hast,
Ohne Rast'—
something may be done, and some of Sister Lizzie's fond
imaginations turn out not altogether untrue." The quotation entire
is as follows:—
Wie das Gestirn,
Ohne Hast,
Aber ohne Rast,
Drehe sich jeder
Um die eigne Last.]
THE PRINCIPAL SUBJECTS OF EDUCATION (1882)
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[ The Principal Subjects of Education: an extract from the essay, Science and Art in Relation to Education.]