The Popular Science Monthly, Volumen8D. Appleton, 1876 |
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... appears to the woman's consciousness less formidable and repellent than her certain punishment by society . Her training has prepared her to place this lessened value upon the crime . Quetelet gives prominence to shame as an impelling ...
... appears to the woman's consciousness less formidable and repellent than her certain punishment by society . Her training has prepared her to place this lessened value upon the crime . Quetelet gives prominence to shame as an impelling ...
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... appears to me , is , that thoughts and acts move in the direction of least resistance . What began in this way , may be con- firmed by habit , so that life may wear for itself channels from which it is impossible that its current may be ...
... appears to me , is , that thoughts and acts move in the direction of least resistance . What began in this way , may be con- firmed by habit , so that life may wear for itself channels from which it is impossible that its current may be ...
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... appears in buildings of a later date , in Buddhist topes . and pagodas ; marvels of skill in masonry , and far surpassing the old brick mounds of Chaldea in richness of design and in workmanship . Egypt was probably far better irrigated ...
... appears in buildings of a later date , in Buddhist topes . and pagodas ; marvels of skill in masonry , and far surpassing the old brick mounds of Chaldea in richness of design and in workmanship . Egypt was probably far better irrigated ...
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... appears that the passenger mileage has doubled between 1861 and 1873 ; and at the rate of increase between 1870 and 1873 it would become double what it was in 1873 in twelve years from that time - namely , in 1885 . The number of ...
... appears that the passenger mileage has doubled between 1861 and 1873 ; and at the rate of increase between 1870 and 1873 it would become double what it was in 1873 in twelve years from that time - namely , in 1885 . The number of ...
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... appears that they serve only to imbibe water , though , of course , they will absorb nitrogenous matter when supplied . Confirmation of these statements is furnished by some experi- ments , concluded since the publication of Mr ...
... appears that they serve only to imbibe water , though , of course , they will absorb nitrogenous matter when supplied . Confirmation of these statements is furnished by some experi- ments , concluded since the publication of Mr ...
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Página 136 - ... the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process...
Página 228 - Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind...
Página 236 - Thus, that the square of the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides, was an experimental discovery, or why did the discoverer sacrifice a hecatomb when he made out its proof ?
Página 566 - All flesh is not the same flesh : but there is one kind of flesh of men, another of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial : but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
Página 136 - I do not think he is entitled to say that his molecular groupings and his molecular motions explain everything. In reality they explain nothing. The utmost he can affirm is the association of two classes of phenomena, of whose real bond of union he is in absolute ignorance.
Página 140 - Emerson. I do so mainly because in him we have a poet and a profoundly religious man, who is really and entirely undaunted by the discoveries of Science, past, present, or prospective. In his case Poetry, with the joy of a bacchanal, takes her graver brother Science by the hand, and cheers him with immortal laughter. By Emerson scientific conceptions are continually transmuted into the finer forms and warmer hues of an ideal world.
Página 362 - Cooke took out their first patent ' for improvements in giving signals and sounding alarms in distant places by means of electric currents transmitted through metallic circuit...
Página 284 - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be ; and that which is done is that which shall be done : and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new ? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Página 354 - They have had exactly the same nurture from their birth up to the present time; they are both perfectly healthy and strong, yet they are otherwise as dissimilar as two boys could be, physically, mentally, and in their emotional nature.
Página 392 - Not till thirty years after did a friend dare write on his tombstone a memorial of his discovery...