A Manual of Anthropology: Or, Science of Man, Based on Modern ResearchLongmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1871 - 358 pages |
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Page xiii
... cause of the night is lack of the sun ; " they believe also quite as firmly that grass is green , and that there are forms and bodies to which this colour belongs they never for a moment suppose that they are conscious only of their own ...
... cause of the night is lack of the sun ; " they believe also quite as firmly that grass is green , and that there are forms and bodies to which this colour belongs they never for a moment suppose that they are conscious only of their own ...
Page xv
... cause needless irritation . " I am afraid I have not been equally cautious . I bow to science , but science is only valuable as it helps to solve the problems here propounded of the Whence , Why , and Whither . Faraday , however , says ...
... cause needless irritation . " I am afraid I have not been equally cautious . I bow to science , but science is only valuable as it helps to solve the problems here propounded of the Whence , Why , and Whither . Faraday , however , says ...
Page xxi
... cause of motion . The natural forces are correlates - that is , they all pass readily into each other . Force , therefore , is One , and that of which it is the force , a Unity - Universal Mind , conscious or automatic . Thus in the ...
... cause of motion . The natural forces are correlates - that is , they all pass readily into each other . Force , therefore , is One , and that of which it is the force , a Unity - Universal Mind , conscious or automatic . Thus in the ...
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... causing considerable physical and mental commotion on earth . The great frost at Brussels , February , 1870 , in which the centegrade thermometer went suddenly 10 deg . below zero , and all the lakes , canals , and ponds were covered ...
... causing considerable physical and mental commotion on earth . The great frost at Brussels , February , 1870 , in which the centegrade thermometer went suddenly 10 deg . below zero , and all the lakes , canals , and ponds were covered ...
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... cause carriages and everything to move faster . As much less force would be required for locomotion , it might be used in brain work , that is in thinking and feeling , * " Other Worlds than Ours , " by R. A. Proctor . and its ...
... cause carriages and everything to move faster . As much less force would be required for locomotion , it might be used in brain work , that is in thinking and feeling , * " Other Worlds than Ours , " by R. A. Proctor . and its ...
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Page 239 - And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the Soul of each, and God of all?
Page 233 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Page 223 - No more ? A monster then, a dream, A discord. Dragons of the prime, That tare each other in their slime, Were mellow music match'd with him.
Page 60 - Is it not extraordinary ? — when among men, I have no evil thoughts, no malice, no spleen; I feel free to speak or to be silent; I can listen, and from every one I can learn ; my hands are in my pockets, I am free from all suspicion, and comfortable. When I am among women, I have evil thoughts, malice, spleen ; I cannot speak, or be silent ; I am full of suspicions, and therefore listen to nothing ; I am in a hurry to be gone.
Page 185 - These angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed ; and their number is so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.
Page 201 - Besides these two places for souls separated from their bodies, the Scripture acknowledgeth none.
Page 245 - Where nothing is, but all things seem. And we the shadows of the dream, It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be. Like all the rest, a mockery. That garden sweet, that lady fair, And all sweet shapes and odours there. In truth have never passed away: Tis we, 'tis ours, are changed; not they. For love, and beauty, and delight, There is no death nor change; their might Exceeds our organs, which endure No light, being themselves obscure.
Page 325 - Then sawest thou that this fair Universe, were it in the meanest province thereof, is in very deed the star-domed City of God ; that through every star, through every grassblade, and most through every Living Soul, the glory of a present God still beams. But Nature, which is the Time-vesture of God, and reveals Him to the wise, hides Him from the foolish.
Page 209 - The rest of mankind God was pleased, according to the unsearchable counsel of his own will, (whereby he extendeth or withholdeth mercy, as he pleaseth, for the glory of his sovereign power over his creatures,) to pass by, and to ordain them to dishonour and wrath for their sin, to the praise of his glorious justice.
Page 185 - Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the catholic faith.