Popular Science Monthly, Bind 76McClure, Phillips and Company, 1910 |
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Side 7
... things so simple . Some day there will arise a man who will demonstrate in what region of the heavens comets take their way ; why they journey so far apart from other planets , what their size , their nature . Let us , then , be content ...
... things so simple . Some day there will arise a man who will demonstrate in what region of the heavens comets take their way ; why they journey so far apart from other planets , what their size , their nature . Let us , then , be content ...
Side 13
... things . After the close approach to the sun with its tremendous tidal strain , the nucleus was found to be broken up into a number of pieces . These parts , instead of approaching each other , separated more and more as long as the ...
... things . After the close approach to the sun with its tremendous tidal strain , the nucleus was found to be broken up into a number of pieces . These parts , instead of approaching each other , separated more and more as long as the ...
Side 23
... thing , was left rather bewildered . To see and meet some hundreds of people , any one of whom , encountered separately , would have furnished enough interest for the day , was like arriving in a strange country , where the fauna is all ...
... thing , was left rather bewildered . To see and meet some hundreds of people , any one of whom , encountered separately , would have furnished enough interest for the day , was like arriving in a strange country , where the fauna is all ...
Side 24
... things , Dr. Francis Darwin came in , leading an old man . My heart stood still for a moment to realize that this was Sir Joseph Hooker , the great botanist who was Darwin's friend and adviser more than fifty years ago . I had never ...
... things , Dr. Francis Darwin came in , leading an old man . My heart stood still for a moment to realize that this was Sir Joseph Hooker , the great botanist who was Darwin's friend and adviser more than fifty years ago . I had never ...
Side 33
... things , of faith in the dignity and destiny of man . We here approach one of those vast realms of truth and human concern , the earliest visions of which are always gained by those geniuses known to us as prophets and poets . " Faith ...
... things , of faith in the dignity and destiny of man . We here approach one of those vast realms of truth and human concern , the earliest visions of which are always gained by those geniuses known to us as prophets and poets . " Faith ...
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Side 499 - The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things'; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Side 270 - All these things being consider'd, it seems probable to me, that God in the Beginning form'd Matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable Particles, of such Sizes and Figures, and with such other Properties, and in such Proportion to Space, as most conduced to the End for which he form'd them...
Side 240 - Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall: Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again." "That last line is much too long for the poetry," she added, almost out loud, forgetting that Humpty Dumpty would hear her.
Side 41 - I probably attributed too much to the action of natural selection or the survival of the fittest. I have altered the fifth edition of the Origin so as to confine my remarks to adaptive changes of structure.
Side 241 - There was a man in our town, and he was wondrous wise ; He jumped into a bramble bush, and scratched out both his eyes. And when he saw his eyes were out, with all his might and main, He jumped into another bush, and scratched them in again.
Side 106 - Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions. Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
Side 106 - Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
Side 192 - Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives usually far within his limits; he possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
Side 41 - I had not formerly sufficiently considered the existence of many structures which appear to be, as far as we can judge, neither beneficial nor injurious ; and this I believe to be one of the greatest oversights as yet detected in my work.
Side 106 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades, Or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?