"Elementary" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Section we shall have abundant examples of the successful application of this method to the most recent conquests of science; but I wish at present to direct your attention to some of the reciprocal effects of the progress of science on those elementary conceptions which are sometimes thought to be ...
— Five of Maxwell's Papers • James Clerk Maxwell
... consequently apply the requisite training with more success than any one else; and, most of all, because it is their especial duty so to do. So we might say, with almost as much reason, that parents could teach their children the elementary branches of knowledge; in the first place, because it is in their province to know the peculiar turn of mind possessed by their children, and also for the equally plausible reason, that they are under a great obligation to educate them. Now, ...
— Reflections on the Operation of the Present System of Education, 1853 • Christopher C. Andrews
... to see, for instance, that the National Health Society, {3} which I earnestly recommend to the attention of my readers, announces a "Course of Lectures for Ladies on Elementary Physiology and Hygiene," by a lady, to which I am also most happy to see, governesses are admitted at half-fees. Alas! how much misery, disease, and even death might have been prevented, had governesses been taught such matters thirty years ago, I, for one, know ...
— Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays • Charles Kingsley
... the elements really of ignorance, not of knowledge, for, to speak deliberately and in view of the highest truths, it is not easy to distinguish elementary knowledge. There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span. A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, ...
— A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers • Henry David Thoreau
... that she was in the presence of a big elementary danger—something gross and terrible ...
— The Green Rust • Edgar Wallace
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