The Nature of Man: Studies in Optimistic PhilosophyG. P. Putnam's sons, 1905 - 309 pages |
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... person who kept bees near the garden of the Faculté de Toulouse complained that they returned from the garden with their heads covered with tiny yellow bodies which he was unable to clean off from them . It was easy to recog- nise in ...
... person who kept bees near the garden of the Faculté de Toulouse complained that they returned from the garden with their heads covered with tiny yellow bodies which he was unable to clean off from them . It was easy to recog- nise in ...
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... persons of high intel- ligence and superior education who declare that science has not yet answered the question as to whence he came , and that the theory of evolution will never provide an answer . † Close examination of the structure ...
... persons of high intel- ligence and superior education who declare that science has not yet answered the question as to whence he came , and that the theory of evolution will never provide an answer . † Close examination of the structure ...
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... persons from whom it has been removed . Thanks to the advances of modern surgery , this organ has been removed very often , and some- times even in cases where it did not appear to have been diseased . In a great majority of the cases ...
... persons from whom it has been removed . Thanks to the advances of modern surgery , this organ has been removed very often , and some- times even in cases where it did not appear to have been diseased . In a great majority of the cases ...
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... persons and infants the aperture of the appendage is usually open . In cases where there is no com- munication with the cavity of the digestive tract , the pro- cesses of digestion appear to be normal . It is logical to conclude that in ...
... persons and infants the aperture of the appendage is usually open . In cases where there is no com- munication with the cavity of the digestive tract , the pro- cesses of digestion appear to be normal . It is logical to conclude that in ...
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... person in question , who was a workwoman in Varsovie , was examined by a surgeon , M. Ciechomski , thirty - five years after the establishment of * " Archiv für klinische Chirurgie , " vol . XLVIII . , p . 715 , 1894 . t " Münchener ...
... person in question , who was a workwoman in Varsovie , was examined by a surgeon , M. Ciechomski , thirty - five years after the establishment of * " Archiv für klinische Chirurgie , " vol . XLVIII . , p . 715 , 1894 . t " Münchener ...
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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.