The Popular Science Monthly, Volumen67McClure, Phillips and Company, 1905 |
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Página 505 - This table, and the accompanying remarks, are the result of many years actual observation ; the whole being constructed on a due consideration of the attraction of the Sun and Moon in their several positions respecting the earth ; and will by simple inspection...
Página 267 - One conclusion was forced upon my mind at that time, and my impression of its truth has ever since remained unshaken. It is that our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the flimsiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
Página 176 - The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion, but determined to judge for himself. He should not be biased by appearances; have no favorite hypothesis ; be of no school ; and in doctrine have no master. He should not be a respecter of persons, but of things. Truth should be his primary object. If to these qualities be added industry, he may indeed hope to walk within the veil of the temple of nature.
Página 281 - HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.
Página 266 - And under it full often have I stretched, Feeling the warm earth like a thing alive, And gathering virtue in at every pore Till it possessed me wholly, and thought ceased, Or was transfused in something to which thought Is coarse and dull of sense. Myself was lost, Gone from me like an ache, and what remained Became a part of the universal joy. My soul went forth, and, mingling with the tree, Danced in the leaves ; or, floating in the cloud, Saw its white double in the stream below; Or else, sublimed...
Página 96 - Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, The American Society of Civil Engineers...
Página 29 - ... zero, and in this particular case passes through a maximum about 10 minutes later, and then diminishes with the time. In a similar way, the amount of C passes through a maximum about 35 minutes after removal.
Página 371 - But economic perils and racial differences are the teacher's opportunity. Here in this country are gathered the sons and the daughters of all nations. Ours is the task, not merely of teaching them our language and respect for our laws, but of imbuing them with the spirit of selfdirection, our precious inheritance from the Puritans ; the spirit of initiative, which comes to us from the pioneers who subdued a continent to the uses of mankind...
Página 99 - I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly, is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one.
Página 140 - I held and believed that the sun is the center of the world and immovable, and that the earth is not the center...