Paradoxical philosophy : a sequel to the Unseen universe.

  • Balfour Stewart
Date:
1878
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Credit: Paradoxical philosophy : a sequel to the Unseen universe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    into ice-cold water! I cannot reconcile the athlete and the philosopher. If he had his will of me, I might perhaps complete the tale of my bad habits by becoming a smoker. What with baths and cricket, fishing, shooting, meals, and the newspapers, and (above all) perpetual smoking, one’s whole working day would be mortgaged before one entered on its posses- sion, and its owner would pass through it without having any tangible proof that he had lived otherwise than as a highly-trained wild beast. Sir Kenneth M‘Kelpie.—There I cannot agree with you, Doctor. True, it ill befits me now to speak of such things—years have put several of them quite beyond my power—but while I was under sixty I don’t think there were many sports in which I should have shunned a trial even against youngsters like Frederick. And I look back to these days with the full con- sciousness that my intellectual part had always its fair share of employment:—that is of enjoy- ment. No one, till he tries, has the least idea
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