The Nature of Man: Studies in Optimistic PhilosophyG. P. Putnam's sons, 1905 - 309 pages |
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... believe it to be so , and it appears to me one of the most wonderful cases of adap- tation which has ever been recorded . " Some orchids secrete instead of nectar a clear liquid like water . This fluid is collected in a petal inserted ...
... believe it to be so , and it appears to me one of the most wonderful cases of adap- tation which has ever been recorded . " Some orchids secrete instead of nectar a clear liquid like water . This fluid is collected in a petal inserted ...
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... believe her to be in the midst of the flames , towards which they fly without being conscious of the danger they incur . Such an interpretation of this disharmonious and suicidal instinct is confirmed by the fact that the moths ...
... believe her to be in the midst of the flames , towards which they fly without being conscious of the danger they incur . Such an interpretation of this disharmonious and suicidal instinct is confirmed by the fact that the moths ...
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... believe themselves in possession of titles , of power , and wealth . They are members of parliament , noblemen , princes , generals , kings , emperors , and popes , or God Himself . " As general paralysis is a result of syphilis , in ...
... believe themselves in possession of titles , of power , and wealth . They are members of parliament , noblemen , princes , generals , kings , emperors , and popes , or God Himself . " As general paralysis is a result of syphilis , in ...
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... believe their lives to be in danger , often take it to heart so as to make themselves really ill . Relating his impressions during the siege of Sebastopool , Tolstoi , who at that time was only twenty - six years of age , writes as ...
... believe their lives to be in danger , often take it to heart so as to make themselves really ill . Relating his impressions during the siege of Sebastopool , Tolstoi , who at that time was only twenty - six years of age , writes as ...
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... believe , that the dead can still do as heretofore , may well have led the savage to bury with his kinsman the weapons , clothes , and ornaments that he used in life , to try to feed the corpse , to put a cigar in the mouth of the skull ...
... believe , that the dead can still do as heretofore , may well have led the savage to bury with his kinsman the weapons , clothes , and ornaments that he used in life , to try to feed the corpse , to put a cigar in the mouth of the skull ...
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Page 293 - Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Page 163 - For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
Page 293 - ... then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
Page 162 - LORD empty: every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
Page 280 - Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.
Page 13 - I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
Page 291 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during •which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Page 177 - tis not in The harmony of things, — this hard decree, This uneradicable taint of sin, This boundless upas, this all-blasting tree...
Page 84 - Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die...
Page 226 - I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.