International Monthly: A Magazine of Contemporary Thought, Volumen3Frederick Albert Richardson Fox, Duffield, 1901 |
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Página 412 - Whatever argument may be drawn from particular examples superficially viewed, a thorough examination of the subject will evince that the art of war is at once comprehensive and complicated, that it demands much previous study, and that the possession of it in its most improved and perfect state is always of great moment to the security of a nation.
Página 737 - In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
Página 671 - I am sorry that you have undertaken to publish a Declaration of Rights. It is a metaphysical work — the ne plus ultra of metaphysics. It may have been a necessary evil, — but it is nevertheless an evil.
Página 419 - I give it as my fixed opinion that but for our graduated cadets the war between the United States and Mexico might and probably would have lasted four or five years with, in its first half, more defeats than victories falling to our share ; whereas in less than two campaigns, we conquered a great country and a peace without the loss of a single battle or skirmish.
Página 609 - ... open fires, has danced and bicycled and golfed with them, has seen their clubs and meetings and charities, — he finds himself discouragingly word-poor when he endeavors to describe, with his imperfect English, the impression that has been made upon him ; he feels that his vocabulary is not sufficiently provided with complimentary epithets. The American woman is clever and ingenious' and witty ; she is brilliant and lively and strong ; she is charming and beautiful and noble ; she is generous...
Página 418 - That the said corps, when so organized, shall be stationed at West Point in the state of New York, and shall constitute a military academy...
Página 587 - This is defined as the quantity of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one kilo of water one degree centigrade. The amount of potential energy, expressed in calories, which accrues to the organism when any given substance is thoroughly " burned," is called the physiological combustion value of the substance, and is exactly known : — i gramme of albumen 4.1 calories.
Página 342 - Parents usually educate their children merely in such a manner that, however bad the world may be, they may adapt themselves to its present conditions. But they ought to give them an education so much better than this, that a better condition of things may thereby be brought about in the future.
Página 453 - For the present purpose it appears both possible and desirable to eliminate considerations of hereditary varieties or races of man, and to treat mankind as homogeneous in nature, though placed in different grades of civilization.
Página 462 - To say, that all this order in animals and vegetables proceeds ultimately from design, is begging the question; nor can that great point be ascertained otherwise than by proving, a priori, both that order is, from its nature, inseparably attached to thought; and that it can never of itself, or from original unknown principles, belong to matter.