Popular Science Monthly, Volumen73McClure, Phillips and Company, 1908 |
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... relations gives to him a kind of moral training , and the knowledge he obtains he wins at first hand . It is acquired in terms of his own experience and in such terms all real and helpful knowledge must always be stated . In our cities ...
... relations gives to him a kind of moral training , and the knowledge he obtains he wins at first hand . It is acquired in terms of his own experience and in such terms all real and helpful knowledge must always be stated . In our cities ...
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... relations with the institution , which he was now estab- lishing , were so important , that they should not now be relinquished . He had already published a plan for founding a chartered. MEMORIAL ERECTED TO RUMFORD IN ENGLISH GARDEN ...
... relations with the institution , which he was now estab- lishing , were so important , that they should not now be relinquished . He had already published a plan for founding a chartered. MEMORIAL ERECTED TO RUMFORD IN ENGLISH GARDEN ...
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... relation between the vibrating electron . and the external magnetic strain to which it is subjected , and reaches two conclusions : First , the vibrating electron is electro - negative ; second , the ratio e / m , i . e . , electric ...
... relation between the vibrating electron . and the external magnetic strain to which it is subjected , and reaches two conclusions : First , the vibrating electron is electro - negative ; second , the ratio e / m , i . e . , electric ...
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... relation of whose sizes and interstices is comparable to that of the molecules in a normal gas , it follows that a free electron , hurled vehemently forward from the cathode , could pass quite through a number of atoms without collision ...
... relation of whose sizes and interstices is comparable to that of the molecules in a normal gas , it follows that a free electron , hurled vehemently forward from the cathode , could pass quite through a number of atoms without collision ...
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... relation to doing . It is a philosophy of work , of activity , of enterprise , of achieve- ment . And for this reason it has taken up arms against all forms of transcendentalism and absolutism and dogmatism and apriorism in so far as ...
... relation to doing . It is a philosophy of work , of activity , of enterprise , of achieve- ment . And for this reason it has taken up arms against all forms of transcendentalism and absolutism and dogmatism and apriorism in so far as ...
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Página 442 - It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
Página 442 - Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs.
Página 145 - And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win.' 'But what good came of it at last?' Quoth little Peterkin: — 'Why, that I cannot tell,' said he, 'But 'twas a famous victory.
Página 150 - After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frensh of Paris was to hir unknowe. At mete wel y-taught was she with-alle; She leet no morsel from hir lippes falle, Ne wette hir fingres in hir sauce depe.
Página 145 - Those who desire this dreadful literature can find it ; it has a ' disciplinary value ;' but I will not even enumerate it in a footnote. The only amusing part of it is that Fechner's critics should always feel bound, after smiting his theories hip and thigh and leaving not a stick of them standing, to wind up by saying that nevertheless to him belongs the imperishable glory of first formulating them and thereby turning psychology into an exact science (!). " ' And everybody praised the duke Who this...
Página 10 - Historical evidence enforces this danger. In the Orient there are large tracts almost absolutely bare of soil, on which stand ruins implying former flourishing populations. Other longtilled lands bear similar testimony. It must be noted that more than loss of fertility is here menaced. It is the loss of the soil-body itself, a loss almost beyond repair. When our soils are gone, we too must go, unless we shall find some way to feed on raw rock or its equivalent.
Página 104 - ... experiments having reference to the same subject. We often find, in the case of questions to the solution of which the development of science points, that several heads, quite independent of each other, generate exactly the same series of reflections. I myself, without being acquainted with either Mayer or Colding, and having first made the acquaintance of Joule's experiments at the end of my. investigation, followed the same path. I...
Página 220 - When the Lenape arrived on the banks of the Mississippi they sent a message to the Alligewi to request permission to settle themselves in their neighborhood. This was refused them, but they obtained leave to pass through the country and seek a settlement farther to the eastward.
Página 10 - ... years. Under such an estimate, to preserve a good working depth, surface wastage should not exceed some such rate as one inch in a thousand years. If one chooses to indulge in a more liberal estimate of the soil-forming rate, it will still appear, under any intelligent estimate, that surface wastage is a serious menace to the retention of our soils under present modes of management.
Página 219 - The Lenni Lenape (according to the tradition handed down to them by their ancestors) resided many hundred years ago in a very distant country in the western part of the American continent. For some reason which I do not find accounted for, they determined on migrating to the eastward, and accordingly set out together in a body. After a very long journey and many nights...