Popular Science Monthly, 60. köideMcClure, Phillips and Company, 1902 |
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... successful , but gives to them fewer descendants . The struggle falls , moreover , at a time of the year when food is generally abundant , and perhaps the effect chiefly produced would be the modification of the secondary sexual ...
... successful , but gives to them fewer descendants . The struggle falls , moreover , at a time of the year when food is generally abundant , and perhaps the effect chiefly produced would be the modification of the secondary sexual ...
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... successful inauguration of the state gov- ernments that public sentiment became thoroughly aroused to the necessity of better care for these unfortunates , and state institutions sprang into existence . During the thirty years following ...
... successful inauguration of the state gov- ernments that public sentiment became thoroughly aroused to the necessity of better care for these unfortunates , and state institutions sprang into existence . During the thirty years following ...
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... success in arous- ing public attention and securing legislative action for the betterment of the condition of the insane . She is said to have been influential in the establishment of thirty - two asylums for the insane . unfortunately ...
... success in arous- ing public attention and securing legislative action for the betterment of the condition of the insane . She is said to have been influential in the establishment of thirty - two asylums for the insane . unfortunately ...
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... successful operation for several years . There is no doubt but that the next few years will see the general opening of such hospitals and out - patient departments in the larger cities throughout the country . Another movement that is ...
... successful operation for several years . There is no doubt but that the next few years will see the general opening of such hospitals and out - patient departments in the larger cities throughout the country . Another movement that is ...
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... success in which selected chronic cases are boarded out in private families in the country districts while under the observation and control of a govern- mental bureau or commission . It is unfortunately a fact that many of the chronic ...
... success in which selected chronic cases are boarded out in private families in the country districts while under the observation and control of a govern- mental bureau or commission . It is unfortunately a fact that many of the chronic ...
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Page 280 - And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven ; and they were destroyed from the earth : and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Page 302 - The riddle of the nebulae was solved. The answer, which had come to us in the light itself, read: Not an aggregation of stars, but a luminous gas.
Page 347 - Oh make Thou us, through centuries long, In peace secure, in justice strong ; Around our gift of freedom draw The safeguards of thy righteous law : And, cast in some diviner mould, Let the new cycle shame the old...
Page 166 - Lucretius, nobler than his mood, Who dropped his plummet down the broad Deep universe and said " No God — " Finding no bottom : he denied Divinely the divine, and died Chief poet on the Tiber-side...
Page 227 - They render no useful service, they create no wealth: more often they destroy it. They degrade whatever they touch, and as individuals are perhaps incapable of improvement...
Page 40 - He gave the little wealth he had, To build a house for fools and mad: And showed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much: That kingdom he hath left his debtor, I wish it soon may have a better.
Page 21 - This progression, by minute steps, in various directions, but always checked and balanced by the necessary conditions, subject to which alone existence can be preserved, may, it is believed, be followed out so as to agree with all the phenomena presented by organized beings, their extinction and succession in past ages, and all the extraordinary modifications of form, instinct, and habits which they exhibit.
Page 20 - We see, then, that no inferences as to varieties in a state of nature can be deduced from the observation of those occurring among domestic animals. The two are so much opposed to each other in every circumstance of their existence, that what applies to the one is almost sure not to apply to the other.
Page 20 - The hypothesis of Lamarck- that progressive changes in species have been produced by the attempts of animals to increase the development of their own organs, and thus modify their Structure and habits has been repeatedly and easily refuted by all writers on the subject of varieties and species, . . . but the view here developed renders such an hypothesis quite unnecessary.
Page 476 - ... to secure if possible for the United States of America leadership in the domain of discovery and the utilization of new forces for the benefit of man.