Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, Volumes 14-16Southern California Academy of Sciences, 1915 |
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ACADEMY MEETING Academy of Sciences Anstruther Davidson Anton Dohrn asphaltum Astronomical Atriplex hymenelytra beauty Beeman Benton Biological Botanical Section burial Burlew Californica Presl calyx-tube Canyon capsule Catalina Island Chairman collected color Committee cyclone cypress denticulate desert diatoms Draba Earthquakes elected equinox Exposition Park exserted fascicled feet Flora flowers George H George W globose base Gray Grinnell hairs Hector Alliot Herbarium inches interest James Z July Keese L. J. Yates lanceolate latifolia Greene leaves Luiseños Melville Dozier microphylla Miss Mohr Mojave River mountain Moxley navel Observatory Pacific Coast Parsons pedicels petals plant present President Prof reported S. B. Parish Samuel San Antonio San Diego San Gabriel San Nicolas Island Santa Catalina Santa Catalina Island scientific season Secretary solstice Southern California Academy Southwest Museum Spalding species specimens stamens summit Tecate telescope Theodore Payne tion Treasurer Ulrey Vice-President Watts William L Zauschneria Zoological Section
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Page 26 - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there anything whereof it may be said, "See, this is new"? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Page 4 - The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
Page 26 - Strange, because they are so frankly and hysterically insane — like all dreams: a God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet...
Page 1 - The fourth conference of the International Union for Cooperation in Solar Research was held at the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory, August 31 to September 2, 1910.
Page 26 - It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream — a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought — a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!
Page 26 - ... body; who mouths justice and invented hell — mouths mercy and invented hell — mouths Golden Rules, and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites...
Page 6 - He was ten years of age when he was brought to the United States by his parents, who settled in Brooklyn.
Page 24 - ... remaining on (this) earth by <the memory of his) fame ; by him, the king, — who attained sole supreme sovereignty in the world, acquired by his own arm, and (enjoyed) for a very long time ; (and) who, having the name of Chandra, carried a beauty of countenance like (the beauty of) of the full moon, — having in faith fixed his mind upon (the god) Vishnu, this lofty standard of the divine Vishnu was set upon the hill called Vishnupada.
Page 25 - Free choice in you were none; nor justice would There should be joy for virtue, woe for ill. Your movements have their primal bent from heaven; Not all: yet said I all; what then ensues?
Page 26 - I am perishing already — I am failing — I am passing away. In a little while you will be alone in shoreless space, to wander its limitless solitudes without friend or comrade forever — for you will remain a thought, the only existent thought, and by your nature inextinguishable, indestructible. But I, your poor servant, have revealed you to yourself and set you free. Dream other dreams, and better!