The Microcosm: The Organ of Substantial Philosophy, Volumen8Hall & Company, 1891 |
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... Fact , A .. " Swiftly Advancing " Once More . Editor . 46 46 " Swiftly Advancing Faster . " Editor ... " " 32 Suicides - How to Prevent Them . Editor . 153 77 Testimonials .. 64 Sign of the Times , A ............... 47 84 115 79 66 Very ...
... Fact , A .. " Swiftly Advancing " Once More . Editor . 46 46 " Swiftly Advancing Faster . " Editor ... " " 32 Suicides - How to Prevent Them . Editor . 153 77 Testimonials .. 64 Sign of the Times , A ............... 47 84 115 79 66 Very ...
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... fact that if there is no slipping off admissi - superable objection to the wave - theory , that ble , then the powerfully vibrating fork , with the prongs of the tuning - fork with their great its consequent powerful condensations of ...
... fact that if there is no slipping off admissi - superable objection to the wave - theory , that ble , then the powerfully vibrating fork , with the prongs of the tuning - fork with their great its consequent powerful condensations of ...
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... fact of the wave - theory by which to show its rationality . But our own Prof. Mayer , to his credit be it said , was not afraid of facing the figures . See- ing this missing - link staring the wave - theory in the face , which no other ...
... fact of the wave - theory by which to show its rationality . But our own Prof. Mayer , to his credit be it said , was not afraid of facing the figures . See- ing this missing - link staring the wave - theory in the face , which no other ...
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... fact that almost no per - struments , not by increasing their action on ceptible augmentation of the sound will be the air , but by the liberation of a larger quan- produced from the iron ! even stopping to think : The piece of wood ...
... fact that almost no per - struments , not by increasing their action on ceptible augmentation of the sound will be the air , but by the liberation of a larger quan- produced from the iron ! even stopping to think : The piece of wood ...
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... fact . The assumption On the contrary , his common - sense would the being vital to the theory its defense is un- better be satisfied by regarding electricity , as avoidable , for how could the sun send its un- well as the magnetism ...
... fact . The assumption On the contrary , his common - sense would the being vital to the theory its defense is un- better be satisfied by regarding electricity , as avoidable , for how could the sun send its un- well as the magnetism ...
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absolute according action admit air-particles air-pulses air-waves annular argument Audsley body canopy cause claim compression condensations and rarefactions Darwin discovery disease dyspepsia earth effect energy entity existence fact force fork four cubic miles GEORGE ASHDOWN AUDSLEY give Hæckel Hall's Health-Pamphlet heat heaven Helmholtz immaterial inch insect light locust logical lymph matter mechanical ment mental MICROCOSM mind molecules motion motion-theories moving natural selection organic Park Row particle physical Problem of Human produce Prof Professor prong prove pulse rarefactions reader reason reply result ROBERT ROGERS scientific Sedley Taylor serpent sonorous sound-board sound-pulses sound-waves stridulating string Substantial Philosophy Substantial Theory sympathetic vibration teaching text-book Theistic evolution theory of acoustics theory of sound thing tion treatment tricity truth tuning-fork tympanic membrane Tyndall Typhon velocity vibrating vital wave wave-theory of sound WILFORD HALL Wood writes York Post
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Página 8 - And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
Página 8 - There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner, being an hundred years old, shall be accursed.
Página 22 - All the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Página 160 - I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind...
Página 164 - Several writers have misapprehended or objected to the term Natural Selection. Some have even imagined that natural selection induces variability, whereas it implies only the preservation of such variations as arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life.
Página 7 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Página 164 - Why should not Nature take a sudden leap from structure to structure ? On the theory of natural selection, we can clearly understand why she should not; for natural selection acts only by taking advantage of slight successive variations ; she can never take a great and sudden leap, but must advance by short and sure, though slow steps.
Página 121 - In the case of water, when the crests of one system of waves coincide with the crests of another system: higher waves will be the result of the coalescence of the two systems. But when the crests of one system coincide with the sinuses, or furrows, of the other system, the two systems, in whole or in part, destroy each other. This mutual destruction of two systems of waves is called interference. The same remarks apply to sonorous waves.
Página 147 - Imagine one of the prongs of the vibrating fork swiftly advancing ; it compresses the air immediately in front of it, and when it retreats it leaves a partial vacuum behind, the process being repeated by every subsequent advance and retreat.
Página 160 - I declare," says Dr. James Johnson, "my conscientious opinion, founded on long observation and reflection, that if there was not a single physician, surgeon, apothecary, manmidwife, chemist, druggist, or drug, on the face of the earth, there would be less sickness, and less mortality than now obtains.