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... present to its eyes . The human intellect offers , in the perfection to which it has brought astronomy , a faint idea of what such a mind would be . " Indeed , just as in lunar equations the astronomer need give but a negative value to ...
... present to its eyes . The human intellect offers , in the perfection to which it has brought astronomy , a faint idea of what such a mind would be . " Indeed , just as in lunar equations the astronomer need give but a negative value to ...
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... present consideration , the now well - known indispensable aid rendered by insects in the fertilization of plants . For the rest , the grandest picture ever sketched of a primeval forest in the tropics by Bernardin de St. Pierre , Von ...
... present consideration , the now well - known indispensable aid rendered by insects in the fertilization of plants . For the rest , the grandest picture ever sketched of a primeval forest in the tropics by Bernardin de St. Pierre , Von ...
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... present , or future . It is utterly inconceivable how consciousness should result from their joint action . If their respective positions and their motion were not indifferent to them , they would have to be re- garded as each possessed ...
... present , or future . It is utterly inconceivable how consciousness should result from their joint action . If their respective positions and their motion were not indifferent to them , they would have to be re- garded as each possessed ...
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... present state through a countless series of generations . Now , if the ancient thinkers found every interaction between body and soul unintelligible and impossible on their theories , and if their undoubted simultaneous coöperation is ...
... present state through a countless series of generations . Now , if the ancient thinkers found every interaction between body and soul unintelligible and impossible on their theories , and if their undoubted simultaneous coöperation is ...
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... present day , most of the technical applications of the science are examples of the building up of compounds . So long as the experimenter's efforts were confined to mineral matter , he met with but little trouble ; but , the moment he ...
... present day , most of the technical applications of the science are examples of the building up of compounds . So long as the experimenter's efforts were confined to mineral matter , he met with but little trouble ; but , the moment he ...
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Página 443 - he spake of trees, from the cedar-tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall : he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Página 771 - The Association contemplates no interference with the ground occupied by other institutions. Its objects are—to give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry ; to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate science in différent parts of the British Empire, with one another, and with foreign
Página 150 - Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies— Hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower—but if I could understand What
Página 136 - the bud, Feed on her damask cheek ; she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.'
Página 716 - this to be a field for the noblest exercise of what, in contrast with the knowing faculties, may be called the creative faculties of man. Here, however, I must quit a theme too great for me to handle, but which will be handled by the loftiest minds ages after you and I, like
Página 772 - in different parts of the United State«; to give a stronger and more general impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific research in our country ; and to procure for the labors of scientific men increased facilities and a wider usefulness.
Página 228 - book on the subjection of women strike one with positive amazement. He calls upon us to own that what is now called the nature of women is an eminently artificial thing, the result of forced repression in some directions, of unnatural stimulation in others ; that their character
Página 112 - Philosophical Transactions ' of 1850, we have the results thus stated : 1. ' The quantity of heat produced by the friction of bodies, whether solid or liquid, is always proportional to the quantity of force expended ; ' 2. ' The quantity of heat capable of increasing the temperature of a pound of water by 1°
Página 771 - parts of the British Empire, with one another, and with foreign philosophers ; to obtain a more general attention to the objects of science, and the removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress.
Página 650 - loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thought— " Which he may read that binds the sheaf, Or builds the house, or digs the grave, And those wild eyes that watch the wave, In roarings round the