The Popular Science Monthly, Volumen8D. Appleton, 1876 |
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... theory in its repression of crime by the fear of punishment . But I believe legislation for this purpose has been based upon a correct knowledge of human nature , and that the average man with criminal tendencies is , to a certain ...
... theory in its repression of crime by the fear of punishment . But I believe legislation for this purpose has been based upon a correct knowledge of human nature , and that the average man with criminal tendencies is , to a certain ...
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... theory that the degree of crime is in a measure the test of propensity , we obtain some startling results . Take the felonies named above in the aggregate , and while the marked difference of sex in the commission of total crime is ...
... theory that the degree of crime is in a measure the test of propensity , we obtain some startling results . Take the felonies named above in the aggregate , and while the marked difference of sex in the commission of total crime is ...
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... theory that the degree of offense , to a certain ex- tent , affords a measure of the tendency to crime in the individual , this crime would reveal in women such a tendency greatly in excess of the other sex . But we must bear in mind ...
... theory that the degree of offense , to a certain ex- tent , affords a measure of the tendency to crime in the individual , this crime would reveal in women such a tendency greatly in excess of the other sex . But we must bear in mind ...
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... theory of least resistance , and the effects of heredity of the sociologist . Let us analyze the last case further , to illustrate the theory of least resistance , as modified by occupation and social condition . It presents a seeming ...
... theory of least resistance , and the effects of heredity of the sociologist . Let us analyze the last case further , to illustrate the theory of least resistance , as modified by occupation and social condition . It presents a seeming ...
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... theory , and stamped it as correct . Since that day some of the world's greatest naturalists have made the study of the Hydroidæ their life- work , and have not felt it an unworthy occupation to be the annalists of this humble family ...
... theory , and stamped it as correct . Since that day some of the world's greatest naturalists have made the study of the Hydroidæ their life- work , and have not felt it an unworthy occupation to be the annalists of this humble family ...
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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...