TBACT No. 2. 



ON 



ASTRONOMICAL AND GEOLOGICAL 

 PHENOMENA. 



41. MIGHT it not be said that our Education has 

 become so much an Education of Words, that we 

 cannot get at the truth for verbiage ? and what with 

 verbiage, and involved processes of reasoning not 

 only may something be said for anything, but a 

 great deal may be said for everything. 



As the corrective to this, must man revert to the 

 ancient Socratic method of interrogatories, which 

 leaves to those to whom the questions are put, to 

 work out their own convictions as to what is truth ? 



OF NEBULA. 



42. Do self-luminous stars within determinate 



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