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... force , attraction , re- pulsion , etc. " Seven alienists of good standing swore that according to the facts before them a certain murderer was sane ; they were employed by the prosecution at $ 100 a day . The defence employed seven ...
... force , attraction , re- pulsion , etc. " Seven alienists of good standing swore that according to the facts before them a certain murderer was sane ; they were employed by the prosecution at $ 100 a day . The defence employed seven ...
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... force the investigator to arrange experiments and recording instruments so that the facts can speak for themselves . We e can thus " police " a man's statements by obliging him to fur- nish experimental proof for them . This is what the ...
... force the investigator to arrange experiments and recording instruments so that the facts can speak for themselves . We e can thus " police " a man's statements by obliging him to fur- nish experimental proof for them . This is what the ...
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... force is exerted , and use the grip between thumb and finger for illustration . The force can be measured by the dynamo- meter shown in Fig . 56. The upright rod holds a spring scale of appropriate strength ; the finger is placed in the ...
... force is exerted , and use the grip between thumb and finger for illustration . The force can be measured by the dynamo- meter shown in Fig . 56. The upright rod holds a spring scale of appropriate strength ; the finger is placed in the ...
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... force to be 4738 , when he tries to reproduce a force of 500g . His constant error is 278. This is his " error of re- production . " The error of reproduction varies with the size of the force exerted , but not proportionately . If the ...
... force to be 4738 , when he tries to reproduce a force of 500g . His constant error is 278. This is his " error of re- production . " The error of reproduction varies with the size of the force exerted , but not proportionately . If the ...
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... force of will and the act itself ? The force of the act we have measured in pounds or grams . Will , not being a mechanical process , cannot be measured by any physical force ; it can be measured only in terms of will . Yet the fol ...
... force of will and the act itself ? The force of the act we have measured in pounds or grams . Will , not being a mechanical process , cannot be measured by any physical force ; it can be measured only in terms of will . Yet the fol ...
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Page 181 - ... probably never in all their lives received one genuine colour-sensation. The modern religionists of the school of Overbeck are just like people who eat slate-pencil and chalk, and assure everybody that they are nicer and purer than strawberries and plums.
Page 5 - I have noticed in one of my formicaria a subterranean cemetery, where I have seen some ants burying their dead by placing earth above them. One ant was evidently much affected, and tried to exhume the bodies, but the united exertions of the yellow sextons were more than sufficient to neutralise the effort of the disconsolate mourner.