To this, his highest ideal of duty, Joseph Priestley sacrificed the vulgar prizes of life, which, assuredly, were within easy reach of a man of his singular energy and varied abilities. For this object he put aside, as of secondary importance, those scientific investigations which he loved so well, and in which he showed himself so competent to enlarge the boundaries of natural knowledge and to win fame. In this cause he not only cheerfully suffered obloquy from the bigoted and the unthinking, and came within sight of martyrdom; but bore with that which is much harder to be borne than all these, the unfeigned astonishment and hardly disguised contempt of a brilliant society.
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If the man to perpetuate whose memory we have this day raised a statue had been asked on what part of his busy life's work he set the highest value, he would undoubtedly have pointed to his voluminous contributions to theology. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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School Boards, University of London, Education Department, House of Commons, Minister of Education, Act of Parliament, Joseph Priestley, Medical Council, Sir Josiah Mason, Johns Hopkins, Lord Shelburne, Royal Commission, Scottish Universities, Professor Huxley, First Principles of Government, Scientific College, University of Paris New!
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If the man to perpetuate whose memory we have this day raised a statue had been asked on what part of his busy life's work he set the highest value, he would undoubtedly have pointed to his voluminous contributions to theology. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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School Boards, University of London, Education Department, House of Commons, Minister of Education, Act of Parliament, Joseph Priestley, Medical Council, Sir Josiah Mason, Johns Hopkins, Lord Shelburne, Royal Commission, Scottish Universities, Professor Huxley, First Principles of Government, Scientific College, University of Paris New!
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- Science and Education by T. Huxley in Front Matter
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