I – The Good General.
"Generals and Generalship" (1939)
Source: A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God (1908), IV
“The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.”
Source: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Ch. 14: Doctor Moreau Explains
Context: To this day I have never troubled about the ethics of the matter. The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.
"Quotes", Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957), Polemical Introduction
“The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.”
Apprendre à voir, voilà tout le secret des études naturelles.
http://books.google.com/books?id=btRg0Qw2X9MC&q=%22Apprendre+%C3%A0+voir+voil%C3%A0+tout+le+secret+des+%C3%A9tudes+naturelles%22&pg=PA51#v=onepage
Letter to Juliette Lambert-Adam (7 April 1868)
Referring to Napoleon III, in "Mistaken Lessons from the Past", The Listener (6 June 1963)
Quia Imperfectum (1920)
And Even Now http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/evnow10.txt (1920)
“Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.”
Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. IV (1928)
II – The General and His Troops.
"Generals and Generalship" (1939)
1900s, Address at the Prize Day Exercises at Groton School (1904)
Context: I want to speak to you first of all as regards your duties as boys; and in the next place as regards your duties as men; and the two things hang together. The same qualities that make a decent boy make a decent man. They have different manifestations, but fundamentally they are the same. If a boy has not got pluck and honesty and common-sense he is a pretty poor creature; and he is a worse creature if he is a man and lacks any one of those three traits.
