The Intellectual Rise in Electricity: A HistoryLongmans, Green & Company, 1895 - 611 páginas |
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... nature , or involving a Babylonish terminology , and requiring minds trained to understand them , cannot be rendered ... natural mani- festations , was regarded as a mystery , none the less the knowledge of it , as these pages seek to ...
... nature , or involving a Babylonish terminology , and requiring minds trained to understand them , cannot be rendered ... natural mani- festations , was regarded as a mystery , none the less the knowledge of it , as these pages seek to ...
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... nature held a lifeless thing showing an attribute of life . This was more than a mere impression . It was an en- igma demanding resolution , and thus endowed with inher- ent and eternal vitality . At some other time , perhaps not until ...
... nature held a lifeless thing showing an attribute of life . This was more than a mere impression . It was an en- igma demanding resolution , and thus endowed with inher- ent and eternal vitality . At some other time , perhaps not until ...
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... Nature also is working in every detail after the laws of the human mind . " It is not , then , cities , or mountains , or animals , or globes that any longer command us , but only man ; not the fact , but so much of man as is in the ...
... Nature also is working in every detail after the laws of the human mind . " It is not , then , cities , or mountains , or animals , or globes that any longer command us , but only man ; not the fact , but so much of man as is in the ...
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A History Park Benjamin. GREEK NATURE WORSHIP . 31 own fancy with deities , whose imaginary doings were part and parcel of his life , and which controlled his every action . Every phenomenon of nature to him was the work , voluntary or ...
A History Park Benjamin. GREEK NATURE WORSHIP . 31 own fancy with deities , whose imaginary doings were part and parcel of his life , and which controlled his every action . Every phenomenon of nature to him was the work , voluntary or ...
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... nature essentially unitary , pure spirit , perfect , all- wise , almighty , supremely good ; the ignorant masses in ... natural facts for ages , such , for example , as astronomical observations , which , as he boasted , had been kept up ...
... nature essentially unitary , pure spirit , perfect , all- wise , almighty , supremely good ; the ignorant masses in ... natural facts for ages , such , for example , as astronomical observations , which , as he boasted , had been kept up ...
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