Essays, Scientific, Political, and Speculative, Volume 2D. Appleton, 1891 |
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abstract Abstract-Concrete action admit aggregate alleged argument assertion assumed astronomy axioms become belief bodies cause classification complex compound Comte Comte's conception conclusion concrete mathematics Concrete Sciences connexion consciousness considered constituting criticism definite direct division doctrine effect emotion equal evolution excitement existence experiences expression fact feeling force further geometry groups habitually Hegel Hence Herbert Spencer Hipparchus hypothesis ideas illustrated implies inconceivable induction inference intuition kind knowledge law of effect laws of motion less manifest mathematics matter Max Müller means mental mind mode molecular molecules muscular nature nervous object observation organic origin perception phenomena philosophy physical position present prevision Principles of Psychology priori produced Prof proof proposition quantitative reasoning relations relative respecting reviewer sensation sentence similarly Sir William Hamilton social Social Statics SOCIOLOGY Solar System Space Spencer supposed syllogism theory things thought tion traits true truth vocal words
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Page 290 - The change of motion is proportional to the motive force impressed ; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.
Page 336 - Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.
Page 341 - At last, with no small difficulty, and after much fatigue, we came, through deep roads and bad weather, to our journey's end.
Page 335 - The border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry : Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced, — forced back, — now low, now high, The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes.
Page 340 - We came to our journey's end, at last, with no small difficulty, after much fatigue, through deep roads and bad weather.
Page 338 - On the other side : which when the archfelon saw, Due entrance he disdain'd : and, in contempt, 180 At one slight bound high overleap'd all bound Of hill or highest wall, and sheer within Lights on his feet. As when a prowling wolf, Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey...
Page 337 - ... shall be brought the closest together. Evidently the single words, the minor clauses, and the leading divisions of every proposition, severally qualify each other. The longer the time that elapses between the mention of any qualifying member and the member qualified, the longer must the mind be exerted in carrying forward the qualifying member ready for use. And the more numerous the qualifications to be simultaneously remembered and rightly applied, the greater will be the mental power expended,...
Page 349 - Richter says, in the Island of Sumatra there is a kind of ' Light-chafers,' large Fire-flies, which people stick upon spits, and illuminate the ways with at night. Persons of condition can thus travel with a pleasant radiance, which they much admire. Great honour to the Fireflies! But—!
Page 354 - ... activity, the repair is so nearly equal to the waste, that the diminution of power is scarcely appreciable ; and it is only when the activity has been long continued, or has been very violent, that the repair becomes so far in arrear of the waste as to produce a perceptible prostration. In all cases, however, when, by the action of a faculty, waste has been incurred, some lapse of time must take place before full efficiency can be reacquired ; and this time must be long in proportion as the waste...
Page 247 - Reason there is but one track possible to all intelligences; no merum arbitrium can interchange the false and true, or make more than one geometry, one scheme of pure physics, for all worlds; and the Omnipotent Architect Himself, in realizing the Kosmical conception, in shaping the orbits out of immensity and determining seasons out of eternity, could but follow the laws of curvature, measure and proportion.