The Microcosm: The Organ of Substantial Philosophy, Volumen8Hall & Company, 1891 |
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... passing , in order to raise its temperature sufficiently to generate the heat required by the wave - theory ? Prof. Tyndall did not dare to give this increase of density in the compressed half of the sound - wave , for he well knew that ...
... passing , in order to raise its temperature sufficiently to generate the heat required by the wave - theory ? Prof. Tyndall did not dare to give this increase of density in the compressed half of the sound - wave , for he well knew that ...
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... pass a given point every second . If they are not too small to be created they are not too small to be destroyed , and who knows that lunar reflection has force enough to re- form them and drive them onward again just as they started ...
... pass a given point every second . If they are not too small to be created they are not too small to be destroyed , and who knows that lunar reflection has force enough to re- form them and drive them onward again just as they started ...
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... Pass- ing by those apostate creatures " who kept not their first estate , " and in consequence of their apostacy were " hurled headlong from the ethereal skies , " we confine our inquiries , for the present , within the domain of the ...
... Pass- ing by those apostate creatures " who kept not their first estate , " and in consequence of their apostacy were " hurled headlong from the ethereal skies , " we confine our inquiries , for the present , within the domain of the ...
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... pass their four - score years . At the present time the average duration of life in the world does not exceed thirty years , and would doubtless fall very much below that number were it not for the blessings of Christianity and the con ...
... pass their four - score years . At the present time the average duration of life in the world does not exceed thirty years , and would doubtless fall very much below that number were it not for the blessings of Christianity and the con ...
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... passes off into the atmosphere or clings to clothing , to be hatch and multiply by throwing off similar living blood having the proper affinity for the disease , will germs till the whole body becomes diseased . If the in - blood of a ...
... passes off into the atmosphere or clings to clothing , to be hatch and multiply by throwing off similar living blood having the proper affinity for the disease , will germs till the whole body becomes diseased . If the in - blood of a ...
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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.