Scribner's Magazine ..., Volume 78C. Scribner's sons, 1925 |
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... fact one may say that genetics , the science of descent , has been the most profitable branch of twentieth - century biology . The term profitable refers primarily to the world's intellectual advancement and not to fi- nancial gain ...
... fact one may say that genetics , the science of descent , has been the most profitable branch of twentieth - century biology . The term profitable refers primarily to the world's intellectual advancement and not to fi- nancial gain ...
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... fact this is the only means by which something really differ- ent can appear , the only raw material for the hand of Evolution . In spite of this queer arrangement for descent , however , we are not put to- gether like a mosaic pavement ...
... fact this is the only means by which something really differ- ent can appear , the only raw material for the hand of Evolution . In spite of this queer arrangement for descent , however , we are not put to- gether like a mosaic pavement ...
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... fact , prefer a peaceful exist- ence is clearer to - day than ever before . The naïveté that classifies some nations ... facts . In short , our pugnacious attributes do not create our international strains and breaks ; in war our ...
... fact , prefer a peaceful exist- ence is clearer to - day than ever before . The naïveté that classifies some nations ... facts . In short , our pugnacious attributes do not create our international strains and breaks ; in war our ...
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... fact that while he seemed to be penetrating into ergin wilderness , actually the lumber- ad been before him and culled out argest pine . A great storage - dam the West Branch at Ripogenus Thoreau would hardly recog- cook Lake , so high ...
... fact that while he seemed to be penetrating into ergin wilderness , actually the lumber- ad been before him and culled out argest pine . A great storage - dam the West Branch at Ripogenus Thoreau would hardly recog- cook Lake , so high ...
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... facts it would ap- pear that Mr. Davis was an extraordina- rily strong candidate , for the number necessary to elect is ... fact , however , Mr. Davis was not a strong can- didate . The 136 electoral votes that he received were not his ...
... facts it would ap- pear that Mr. Davis was an extraordina- rily strong candidate , for the number necessary to elect is ... fact , however , Mr. Davis was not a strong can- didate . The 136 electoral votes that he received were not his ...
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Page 137 - For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Page 347 - Ask, and it shall be given you : seek, and you shall find : knock, and it shall be opened to you.
Page 664 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Page 99 - There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And — every — single — one — of — them — is — right!
Page 141 - Therefore since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure, Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.
Page 350 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page 138 - Universe forbade, in this twentieth century, the importation of Divine personages from any antique Mythology as ready-made sources or channels of Causation, even in verse, and excluded the celestial machinery of, say, Paradise Lost, as peremptorily as that of the Iliad or the Eddas. And the abandonment of the masculine pronoun in allusions to the First or Fundamental Energy seemed a necessary and logical consequence of the long abandonment by thinkers of the anthropomorphic conception of the same.
Page 137 - For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field : And the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
Page 417 - And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure...