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THE simple title NATURE, embracing all in a single word, was most appropriately chosen by Sir Norman Lockyer when, exactly fifty years ago, he founded this weekly journal, which is devoted to all the sciences, and has had so successful a career. The first article in the journal reproduced profound aphorisms of Goethe on the intimate relations of man with Nature, of which he is a part. The poet-philosopher set forth in striking language, which was rendered into English by Huxley, the innate feebleness of man before the immutable forces and:the great mysteries which everywhere surround him, and at the same time the incessant human desire, never completely satisfied, of comprehending and penetrating them. The contribution is a stimulating preface to a scientific periodical; it well exhibits the high character of the journal at the outset, and the spirit in which it has always been conducted.
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DESLANDRES, H. Scientific Worthies.: XLI.—Sir Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., F.R.S. Nature 104, 191–195 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/104191a0
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