Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Volume 32 |
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Page xvii - Association are, by periodical and migratory meetings, to promote intercourse between those who are cultivating science In different parts of America, to give a stronger and more general impulse and more systematic direction to scientific research, and to procure for the labors of scientific men increased facilities and a wider usefulness.
Page xc - A mass of living protoplasm is simply a molecular machine of great complexity, the total results of the working of which, or its vital phenomena, depend on the one hand upon its construction, and on the other, upon the energy supplied to it; and to speak of 'vitality' as anything but the name of a series of operations is as if one should talk of the horologity of a clock, "f Professor J.
Page 96 - ... inaccessible mountains which lead to and command a view of the promised land, — the land which science promises us in the future ; which shall not only flow with milk and honey, but shall give us a better and more glorious idea of this wonderful universe. We must create a public opinion in our favor, but it need not at first be the general public. We must be contented to stand aside, and see the honors of the world for a time given to our inferiors; and must be better contented with the approval...
Page 88 - And yet there are very many similar institutions ; there being sixteen with three professors or less, and very many indeed with only four or five. Such facts as these could only exist in a democratic country, where pride is taken in reducing everything to a level. And I may also say, that it can only exist in the early days of such a democracy ; for an intelligent public will soon perceive that calling a thing by a wrong name does not change its character, and that truth, above all things, should...
Page 98 - Societies upon its library-shelves, is certainly not doing its best to cultivate all that is best in this world, We call this a free country, and yet it is the only one where there is a direct tax upon the pursuit of Science. The low state of Pu,re Science in our country may possibly be attributed to the youth of the country; but a direct tax, to prevent the growth of our country in that subject, cannot be looked upon as other than a deep disgrace. I refer to the duty upon foreign books and periodicals....
Page 83 - To-day the railroad and the telegraph, the books and newspapers, have united each individual man with the rest of the world: instead of his mind being an individual, a thing apart by itself, and unique, it has become so influenced by the outer world, and so dependent upon it, that it has lost its originality to a great extent. The man who in times past would naturally have been in the lowest depths of poverty, mentally and physically, to-day measures tape behind a counter, and with lordly air advises...
Page 335 - I found that many of these quartz chips were brought to light at every succeeding freshet of the season, being washed out of the sand by descending drainage. Their immense and continually increasing numbers seemed to warrant the belief that they had resulted from systematic operations of some sort, once conducted, for unknown purposes, upon this particular spot. A portion of the studied specimens subsequently yielded evidence of having received shape from human hands, and therefore it was assumed...
Page 98 - ... national character. But there is another matter which influences the growth of our science. As it is necessary for us still to look abroad for our highest inspiration in pure science, and as science is not an affair of one town or one country , but of the whole world, it becomes us all to read the current journals of science and the great transactions of foreign societies, as well as those of our own countries. These great transactions and journals should be in the library of every institution...
Page 83 - And yet our own country is in this same state. But we have done better; for we have taken the science of the old world, and applied it to all our uses, accepting it like the rain of heaven, without asking whence it came, or even acknowledging the debt of gratitude we owe to the great and unselfish workers who have given it to us. And, like the rain of heaven, this pure science has fallen upon our country, and made it great and rich and strong. To a civilized nation of the present day, the applications...
Page lxxxviii - The latter point, as is well known, Gaudry had candidly given up. " We have questioned," he says, " these strange and gigantic sovereigns of the tertiary oceans as to their ancestors, — they leave us without reply." Flower is bold enough to face this problem; and he does so in a fair and vigorous way, though limiting himself to the supposition of slow and gradual change. He gives up at once, as every anatomist must, the idea of an origin from fishes or reptiles. He thinks the ancestors of the whales...