The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 11D. Appleton, 1877 |
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Page 521 - ... any extensive change in the education of women, made with the view of fitting them for businesses and professions, would be mischievous. If women comprehended all that is contained in the domestic sphere, they would ask no other.
Page 518 - The monogamic form of the sexual relation is manifestly the ultimate form; and any changes to be anticipated must be in the direction of completion and extension of it...
Page 36 - His bold generalizations are always instructive, and some of them may In the end be established as the profoundest laws of the knowable universe."— Dr.
Page 37 - LIGHT: a Series of Simple, entertaining, and Inexpensive Experiments in the Phenomena of Light, for the Use of. Students of every age.
Page 44 - A General History of Greece from the Earliest Period to the Death of Alexander the Great, with a sketch of the subsequent History to the present time. New Edition. Crown 8vo. Cloth, price 7$. 6d, Tales of Ancient Greece.
Page 45 - XVIII. The Nature of Light. With a General Account of Physical Optics. By Dr. Eugene Lommel. With 188 Illustrations and a Table of Spectra in Chromo-lithography.
Page 519 - As monogamy is likely to be raised in character by a public sentiment requiring that the legal bond shall not be entered into unless it represents the natural bond ; so, perhaps, it may be that maintenance of the legal bond will come to be held improper if the natural bond ceases. Already increased facilities for divorce point to the probability that whereas...
Page 634 - Is a thing so small!" Ah, yes; but why Should it suffer at all? Why should a sob For the vaguest smart One moment throb Through the tiniest heart? Why in the whole Wide universe Should a single soul Feel that primal curse? Not all the throes Of mightiest mind, Nor the heaviest woes Of human kind, Are of deeper weight In the riddle of things Than that insect's fate With the mangled wings.
Page 40 - ... authentic history. In preparing the present edition for the press, it has accordingly been the aim of the editors to bring down the information to the latest possible dates, and to furnish an accurate account of the most recent discoveries in science, of every fresh production in literature, and...
Page 597 - ... feet underneath. Nor is the environment through which his correspondences reach, limited to the surface and the substance of the Earth. It stretches into the surrounding sphere of infinity.