Lectures and Essays by the Late William Kingdon Clifford, F.R.S.
Author: William Kingdon Clifford
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Published: 1901
Total Pages: 438
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Published: 1879
Total Pages: 356
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Published: 1901
Total Pages: 526
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Published: 1886
Total Pages: 472
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Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9781230315836
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ... EIGHT AND WRONG: THE SCIENTIFIC GROUND OF THEIR DISTINCTION1 The questions which are here to be considered are especially and peculiarly everybody's questions. It is not everybody's business to be an engineer, or a doctor, or a carpenter, or a soldier; but it is everybody's business to be a citizen. (The doctrines and precepts which guide the practice of the good engineer are of interest to him who uses them and to those whose business it is to investigate them by mechanical science; the rest of us neither obey nor disobey them. But the doctrines and precepts of morality, which guide the practice of the good citizen, are of interest to all; they must be either obeyed or disobeyed by every human being who is not hopelessly and for ever separated from the rest of mankind. No one can say, therefore, that in this inquiry we are not minding our own business, that we are meddling with other men's affairs. We are in fact studying the principles of our profession, so far as we are able; a necessary thing for every man who wishes to do good work in it. Along with the character of universal interest which belongs to our subject there goes another. What is everybody's practical business is also to a large extent what everybody knows; and it may be reasonably expected that a discourse about Right and Wrong will be full of platitudes and truisms. The expectation is a just one. The considerations I have to offer are of the very oldest and the very simplest commonplace and common sense; and no one can be more astonished than I am that there should be any reason to speak of them at all. But there is reason to speak of them, because platitudes are not all of one kind. Some platitudes have a definite meaning and a practical application, and are...
Author: William Kingdon Clifford
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Published: 2015-07-06
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9781330795699
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Lectures and Essays, by the Late William Kingdon Clifford About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: William Kingdon Clifford
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Published: 2012-01
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9781290210003
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Author: William Kingdon Clifford
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Published: 1879
Total Pages: 360
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Published: 1879
Total Pages: 443
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