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Professor Ray Lankester introduced it to English readers in an appreciative notice of Professor Hering's address, which appeared in Nature, July 13, 1876. He wrote to the Athenaeum, March 24, 1884, and claimed credit for having done so, but I do not believe he has ever said more in public about it than what I have here referred to. Mr.
Lankester pushed back a very shabby pot-hat to a still more rakish angle, buttoning up an equally shabby coat the while against the east wind. He was a tall fair-haired fellow, half a Dane in race and aspect: broad-shouldered, loose-limbed, with a Franciscan passion for poverty and the poor.
The child 'ull run in if she's told, an' I know Hetty's lettin' her eat too many currants. I'll be much obliged to you, Mr. Bede, if you'll go and send her in; an' there's the York and Lankester roses beautiful in the garden now you'll like to see 'em. But you'd like a drink o' whey first, p'r'aps; I know you're fond o' whey, as most folks is when they hanna got to crush it out." "Thank you, Mrs.
His religion, which was sincere, enabled him to understand her; his affection, his infinite delicacy of feeling, helped her. Meanwhile, Diana and Lankester became the sustaining angels of a stricken house. But not all their tenderness and their pity could, in the end, do much for the two sufferers they tried to comfort.
We do not so much ask: 'Are these stories true? as, 'Why are these stories told? Professor Ray Lankester puts the question thus, and we are still at a loss for an answer. Meanwhile modern science has actually accepted as real, some strange psychological phenomena which both science and common-sense rejected, between 1720 and 1840, roughly speaking.
Well, what then? In the man looking down on Marsham not a tinge of pharisaic condemnation mingled with the strange clearness of his judgment. What are we all the best of us? Lankester had not parted, like the majority of his contemporaries, with the "sense of sin."
The prostration and pallor of the speaker, the feebleness of the tone nothing could have been more pitiful. An idea rushed upon Lankester. He again bent over the bed. "Don't think of it any more," he said. "It's forgotten!" A slight and ghastly smile showed on Marsham's lip as he lay with closed eyes. "Forgotten! No, by Jove!"
E. Ray Lankester in his 'Comparative Longevity, 1870, p. 128. Similar views appeared previously in the 'Australasian, July 13, 1867. Wallace and Mr. Galton. For Mr. Wallace, see 'Anthropological Review, as before cited. Mr. With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health.
Your common man has no conception of the zeal that animates a scientific investigator, the fury of contradiction you can arouse in him. It is the odium theologicum in a new form. There are men, for instance, who would gladly burn Professor Ray Lankester at Smithfield for his treatment of the Mollusca in the Encyclopaedia.
He pointed to Marsham's bedroom, now appropriated to the valet, while the master, for the sake of space and cheerfulness, had been moved into the sitting-room. The servant hesitated, protested, and was at last persuaded, being well aware of Marsham's liking for this queer, serviceable being. Lankester took various directions from him, and packed him off.
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