Nature, Том 4Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1871 |
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... existence of five new species , belonging to three new genera ; and others will probably be yet brought to light . AT the present day , when the columns of our newspapers teem with advertisements of various preparations for promoting ...
... existence of five new species , belonging to three new genera ; and others will probably be yet brought to light . AT the present day , when the columns of our newspapers teem with advertisements of various preparations for promoting ...
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... existence , no method is more likely to demonstrate their existence than that which M. Exner has followed . COLOUR BLINDNESS The most valuable evidence which we possess with respect to colour vision is furnished to us by the colour ...
... existence , no method is more likely to demonstrate their existence than that which M. Exner has followed . COLOUR BLINDNESS The most valuable evidence which we possess with respect to colour vision is furnished to us by the colour ...
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... existence to a considerable extent , but we cannot suppose that the present case will form any exception to the general rule , that educational facilities are only slowly and by degrees taken advantage of by the classes for whose ...
... existence to a considerable extent , but we cannot suppose that the present case will form any exception to the general rule , that educational facilities are only slowly and by degrees taken advantage of by the classes for whose ...
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... existence ; by the organs of the senses the impressions and motions derived from the outer world are vibrated into or through the nervous at- mosphere to the brain ; in the living and healthy animal the nervous ether , if we may so ...
... existence ; by the organs of the senses the impressions and motions derived from the outer world are vibrated into or through the nervous at- mosphere to the brain ; in the living and healthy animal the nervous ether , if we may so ...
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... existence of several ruined cities surrounded by the remains of extensive gardens and vineyards ; of these , the walls alone remain to tell their tale . The vineyards are clearly to be traced on the low hills and rising grounds by the ...
... existence of several ruined cities surrounded by the remains of extensive gardens and vineyards ; of these , the walls alone remain to tell their tale . The vineyards are clearly to be traced on the low hills and rising grounds by the ...
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Стр. 269 - It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth...
Стр. 261 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labour of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of Fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Стр. 269 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Стр. 264 - Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement -and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.
Стр. 265 - I am purposing them, to be considered of and examined, an account of a philosophical discovery which induced me to the making of the said telescope ; and I doubt not but will prove much more grateful than the communication of that instrument ; being in my judgment the oddest, if not the most considerable detection which hath hitherto been made in the operations of nature.
Стр. 269 - Hence and because we all confidently believe that there are at present, and have been from time immemorial, many worlds of life besides our own, we must regard it as probable in the highest degree that there are countless seed-bearing meteoric stones moving about through space. If at the present instant no life existed upon this earth, one such stone falling upon it might, by what we blindly call natural causes, lead to its becoming covered with vegetation.
Стр. 29 - If we consider the heavens, the work of his fingers, the moon and the stars which he has ordained...
Стр. 209 - Report on the Progress and Condition of the Royal Gardens at Kew during the Year 1875, p.
Стр. 237 - Newton and Raphael — are potential in the fires of the sun. We long to learn something of our origin. If the Evolution hypothesis be correct, even this unsatisfied yearning must have come to us across the ages which separate the primeval mist from the consciousness of to-day.
Стр. 190 - In the schools provided by the Board the Bible shall be read, and there shall be given such- explanations and such instruction therefrom in the principles of morality and religion as are suited to the capacities of children.