The Popular Science Monthly, Том 28D. Appleton, 1886 |
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... matter of uneasy conjecture . It may easily be understood , then , that the problem is not a simple one , and yet , to a person watching , for example , the flight of a flock of gulls following in the wake of a steamer , the exquisite ...
... matter of uneasy conjecture . It may easily be understood , then , that the problem is not a simple one , and yet , to a person watching , for example , the flight of a flock of gulls following in the wake of a steamer , the exquisite ...
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... matter and of life , but the demonstration of the " struggle for life " and " survival of the fittest " has raised anew , and with vastly augmented force , those questions as to the moral constitution of the universe and the origin of ...
... matter and of life , but the demonstration of the " struggle for life " and " survival of the fittest " has raised anew , and with vastly augmented force , those questions as to the moral constitution of the universe and the origin of ...
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... matter in the brain , which receive and retain the visual impressions ? After all , this is the only really wonderful part of either instrument . In modern photography that which answers to the retina of. TWO WONDERFUL INSTRUMENTS . 53 M ..
... matter in the brain , which receive and retain the visual impressions ? After all , this is the only really wonderful part of either instrument . In modern photography that which answers to the retina of. TWO WONDERFUL INSTRUMENTS . 53 M ..
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... matter is to increase the number of guards , who would now be wholly insufficient in case of any emer- gency . The medical service also should be assured a sufficient com- pensation to justify the doctors in giving up everything else ...
... matter is to increase the number of guards , who would now be wholly insufficient in case of any emer- gency . The medical service also should be assured a sufficient com- pensation to justify the doctors in giving up everything else ...
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... matters should prevail , and the way to secure it is to hold those who professionally market investment securities to ... matter of prudence . The investor may pay too dearly for safety . There are securities which , compared with others ...
... matters should prevail , and the way to secure it is to hold those who professionally market investment securities to ... matter of prudence . The investor may pay too dearly for safety . There are securities which , compared with others ...
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Стр. 41 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Стр. 19 - Thou makest thine appeal to me. I bring to life, I bring to death; The spirit does but mean the breath: I know no more.
Стр. 19 - I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.
Стр. 19 - Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete; That not a worm is cloven in vain; That not a moth with vain desire Is shrivelled in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain.
Стр. 18 - Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Стр. 413 - Amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the ONE absolute certainty, that he is ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.
Стр. 20 - And he, shall he Man, her last work, who seem'd so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Tho...
Стр. 38 - And what if Trade sow cities Like shells along the shore, And thatch with towns the prairie broad With railways ironed o'er? — They are but sailing foam-bells Along Thought's causing stream, And take their shape and sun-color From him that sends the dream.
Стр. 49 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Стр. 451 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and God saw that it was good.