Illustrations of Universal Progress: A Series of DiscussionsD. Appleton, 1865 - 451 pages |
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... stars is almost beneath notice . A priori it was highly improbable , if not impossible , that nebulous masses should still remain uncondensed , while others have been condensed millions of years ago . EFFECTS OF THE EARTH'S ...
... stars is almost beneath notice . A priori it was highly improbable , if not impossible , that nebulous masses should still remain uncondensed , while others have been condensed millions of years ago . EFFECTS OF THE EARTH'S ...
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... stars ! How you Thank God , that's over ! " and half resolve to avoid all such bore- dom for the future ! 66 What , now , is the secret of this perpetual miscarriage and disappointment ? Does not the fault lie with all these needless ...
... stars ! How you Thank God , that's over ! " and half resolve to avoid all such bore- dom for the future ! 66 What , now , is the secret of this perpetual miscarriage and disappointment ? Does not the fault lie with all these needless ...
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... stars within his theory , says that they are mere formal existences and not living matter , and that as compared with the solar system they are as little admirable as a cutaneous eruption or a swarm of flies . * Results so outrageous ...
... stars within his theory , says that they are mere formal existences and not living matter , and that as compared with the solar system they are as little admirable as a cutaneous eruption or a swarm of flies . * Results so outrageous ...
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... stars . It was thus when Cavendish's torsion - balance ex- periment determined the specific gravity of the earth , and so gave a datum for calculating the specific gravities of the sun and planets . It was thus when tables of ...
... stars . It was thus when Cavendish's torsion - balance ex- periment determined the specific gravity of the earth , and so gave a datum for calculating the specific gravities of the sun and planets . It was thus when tables of ...
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... star has to undergo a careful anal- ysis by the combined aid of various sciences — has to be digest- ed by the organism of the sciences ; which have severally to assimilate their respective parts of the observation , be- fore the ...
... star has to undergo a careful anal- ysis by the combined aid of various sciences — has to be digest- ed by the organism of the sciences ; which have severally to assimilate their respective parts of the observation , be- fore the ...
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abstract action aggregation alike analogy animals astronomy become body cause centre centrifugal force changes character classification comets common complex Comte concrete mathematics consciousness considered creatures crust Devonian differentiation direction division doctrine Earth emotions equal evidence evolution excitement exist fact Fauna feeling force formations forms fossils functions further genesis geological gradually gravity greater groups heat Hence Herbert Spencer heterogeneous higher homogeneous Hugh Miller human Hydrozoa ideas illustrated implies increasing individual inference John Herschel kind less manifest mass matter ment mental mode modifications mollusks motion muscular nature Nebular Hypothesis nebulous nervous observation orbits organic original phenomena planets present prevision principles produced progress races relations respect ring rotation satellites Saturn scarcely sensations Silurian similarly Sir Charles Lyell social society Solar System species specific gravity Spencer spheroid stars strata successive sundry surface theory things thought tion trace truth
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Page 71 - The Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control " — we shall presently have a separate organization here also.
Page 107 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Page 30 - ... of races ; it is seen in the evolution of Society in respect alike of its political, its religious, and its economical organization ; and it is seen in the evolution of all those endless concrete and abstract products of human activity which constitute the environment of our daily life. From the remotest past which Science can fathom, up to the novelties of yesterday, that in which progress essentially consists, is the transformation of the homogeneous into the heterogeneous.
Page 389 - Art goes yet further, imitating that rational and most excellent work of nature, man ; for by art is created that great leviathan, called a Commonwealth, or State, (in Latin Ciutas) which is but an artificial man...
Page 275 - Laplace shows, by reasoning too detailed to be here repeated, that under the circumstances such a relation of movements would be likely to establish itself. Among Jupiter's satellites, which severally display these same synchronous movements, there also exists a still more remarkable relation. " If the mean angular velocity of the first satellite be added to twice that of the third, the sum will be equal to three times that of the second ;" and " from this it results that the situations of any two...
Page 2 - Social progress is supposed to consist in the produce of a greater quantity and variety of the articles required for satisfying men's wants; in the increasing security of person and property; in widening freedom of action : whereas, rightly understood, social progress consists in those changes of structure in the social organism which have entailed these consequences.
Page 298 - ... unable to conceive how such a complex organism gradually arises out of a minute structureless germ. That our harmonious universe once existed potentially as formless diffused matter, and has slowly grown into its present organized state, is a far more astonishing fact than would have been its formation after the artificial method vulgarly supposed.
Page xx - Whether it be in the development of the Earth, in the development of Life upon its surface, in the development of Society, of Government, of Manufactures, of Commerce, of Language, Literature, Science, Art, this same evolution of the simple into the complex, through successive differentiations, holds throughout.