Lesson 30 Adventures of Ideas 大胆的想法 Each civilization is born, it culminates, and it decays. There is a widespread estimony that this ominous fact is due to inherent biological defects in the crowded life of cities. Now, slowly and at first...
Lesson 29 Pieces of Mind 思想片断 A young man sees a sunset and, unable to understand or to express the emotion that it rouses in him, concludes that it must be the gateway to a world that lies beyond. It is difficult for any of us in moments of...
Lesson 28 Countryman's Creed 乡下人的信条 No two sorts of birds practise quite the same sort of flight; the varieties are infinite, but two classes may be roughly seen. Any ship that crosses the pacific is accompanied for many days by the small...
Lesson 27 The Personality of Man 人的性格 Why does the idea of progress loom so large in the modern world ? Surely because progress of a particular kind is actually taking place around us and is becoming more and more manifest. Although mankind h...
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Lesson 24 Going Out for a Walk外出散步 Walking for walking's sake may be as highly laudable and exemplary a thing as it is held to be by those who practise it. My objection to it is that it stops the brain. Many a man has professed to me that his...
Lesson 23 The Stuff of Dreams 说梦话的本质 It is fairly clear that the sleeping period must have some function, and because there is so much of it the function would seem to be important. Speculations about its nature have been going on for lit...
Lesson 22 Window in the Sea 海洋之窗 There has long been a superstition among mariners that porpoises will save drowning men by pushing them to the surface, or protect them from sharks by surrounding them in defensive formation. Marine Studio bio...
Lesson 21 Science Makes Sense 知识源于科学 In the early days of the settlement of Australia, enterprising settlers unwisely introduced the European rabbit. This rabbit had no natural enemies in the Antipodes, so that it multiplied with that pro...
Lesson 20 Man,the Unknown 人类神秘的巨人 In the organization of industrial life the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected. Modern industry is based on the conception of th...
