The Popular Science Monthly, 45. köideD. Appleton, 1894 |
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... reason- ing which had been converging during so many years toward one conclusion . On July 1 , 1858 , there were read before the Linnæan Society at London two papers - one presented by Charles Darwin , the other by Alfred Russel Wallace ...
... reason- ing which had been converging during so many years toward one conclusion . On July 1 , 1858 , there were read before the Linnæan Society at London two papers - one presented by Charles Darwin , the other by Alfred Russel Wallace ...
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... reason why they should do more than compress such beds of loose material and roughly level their surfaces . It is the old delusion of a gla- cier acting like a scoop or plow that leads to the idea that if it can erode rock slowly it ...
... reason why they should do more than compress such beds of loose material and roughly level their surfaces . It is the old delusion of a gla- cier acting like a scoop or plow that leads to the idea that if it can erode rock slowly it ...
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... reason ? It is a large task to make the beliefs in any one bundle harmonize . It is a still greater task to make the bundles themselves harmonize with one another . In the autobiography of John Stuart Mill we have the record of such an ...
... reason ? It is a large task to make the beliefs in any one bundle harmonize . It is a still greater task to make the bundles themselves harmonize with one another . In the autobiography of John Stuart Mill we have the record of such an ...
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... reason of his long ears in proportion to his size , has probably the most correct sense of locating sound of all animals . We mortals , however , not having long ears or the ability to move those that we have , often make sad mistakes ...
... reason of his long ears in proportion to his size , has probably the most correct sense of locating sound of all animals . We mortals , however , not having long ears or the ability to move those that we have , often make sad mistakes ...
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... reason hunters are hostile to herdsmen , and herdsmen to tillers of the soil ; since pasturage diminishes the extent and value of hunting grounds , and agriculture diminishes the area of pas- turage . Mr. D. Mackenzie Wallace gives a ...
... reason hunters are hostile to herdsmen , and herdsmen to tillers of the soil ; since pasturage diminishes the extent and value of hunting grounds , and agriculture diminishes the area of pas- turage . Mr. D. Mackenzie Wallace gives a ...
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Page 636 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 407 - None knew him but to love him, None named him but to praise.
Page 361 - ... the old woman comes with a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks what vein you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer...
Page 638 - It is indifferent for judges and magistrates ; for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant five times worse than a wife.
Page 361 - There is a set of old women who make it their business to perform the operation every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the small-pox; they make parties for this purpose, and when they are met (commonly fifteen or sixteen together), the old woman comes with a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks what vein you please to have opened.
Page 633 - I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward.
Page 636 - I'm truly sorry man's dominion. Has broken nature's social union, An' justifies that ill opinion, Which makes thee startle At me, thy poor earth-born companion, An...
Page 576 - WHEN I was sick and lay a-bed, I had two pillows at my head, And all my toys beside me lay To keep me happy all the day. And sometimes for an hour or so I watched my leaden soldiers go, With different uniforms and drills, Among the bed-clothes, through the hills. And sometimes sent my ships in fleets All up and down among the sheets; Or brought my trees and houses out, And planted cities all about.
Page 361 - The smallpox, so fatal and so general amongst us, is here entirely harmless by the invention of ingrafting, which is the term they give it. There is a set of old women who make it their business to perform the operation every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the smallpox...
Page 819 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.