Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsleywas a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian and novelist. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives that failed but led to the working reforms of the progressive era. He was a friend and correspondent with Charles Darwin...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth12 June 1819
sailing sun three
Three fishers went sailing away to the west,/ Away to the west as the sun went down.
children spring two
Oh! that we two were Maying Down the stream of the soft spring breeze; Like children with violets playing, In the shade of the whispering trees.
flower garden rainbow
A garden, sir, wherein all rainbows and flowers were heaped together.
effort world ifs
I go at what I have to do as if there were nothing else in the world for me to do.
home sand mary
O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee!
dog lame dull
The Invitation, To Tom Highes What we can we will be, Honest Englishmen. Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at whiles, Helping, when we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles.
justice ants should
I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.
science men thinking
Mathematical knowledge is not-as all Cambridge men are surely aware-the result of any special gift. It is merely the development of those conceptions of form and number which every human being possesses; and any person of average intellect can make himself a fair mathematician if he will only pay continuous attention; in plain English, think enough about the subject.
children simplicity wish
If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.
mind way savages
Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming.
discovery water mind
He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost preternatural clearness, volubility, and sensitiveness of mind.
may littles comfort
Take comfort, and recollect however little you and I may know, God knows; He knows Himself and you and me and all things; and His mercy is over all His works.
music angel speech
Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself.
wise boys men
You must not say that this cannot be, or that that is contrary to nature. You do not know what Nature is, or what she can do; and nobody knows; not even Sir Roderick Murchison, or Professor Huxley, or Mr. Darwin, or Professor Faraday, or Mr. Grove, or any other of the great men whom good boys are taught to respect. They are very wise men; and you must listen respectfully to all they say: but even if they should say, which I am sure they never would, 'That cannot exist. That is contrary to nature,' you must wait a little, and see; for perhaps even they may be wrong.