Only wait; and fret not yourselves, else shall you be moved to do
evil. Remember the saying of the wise man: "Go not after the
world. She turns on her axis; and if thou stand still long enough
she will turn round to thee."
Footnotes:
{0} The Macmillan and Co. book from which this eBook was
transcribed ("Scientific Lectures and Essays") also contains "Town
Geology". However, as Charles Kingsley published that as a separate
book it is not included here. It is available from Project
Gutenberg.--DP.
{1} An Address given to the Scientific Society of Winchester, 1871.
{181} A Lecture delivered to the Officers of the Royal Artillery,
Woolwich, 1872.
{201} A Lecture delivered at the Royal Institution, London, 1867.
{223} For an account of Sorcery and Fetishism among the African
Negros, see Burton's "Lake Regions of Central Africa," vol. ii. pp.
341-60.
{229} A Lecture delivered at the Royal Institution.
{262} A Lecture delivered at the Mechanics' Institute, Odiham,
1857.
{290} Lecture delivered at Reading, 1846.
{313} Novalis, I think, says that one's own thought gains quite
infinitely in value as soon as one finds it shared by even one other
human being. The saying has proved true, at least, to me. The
morning after this paper was read, I received a book, "The Genesis
of Species, by St.
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