The New International Encyclopædia, Volume 4Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby Dodd, Mead, 1902 |
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Page 240 - A CAUSE is an object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it, that the idea of the one determines the mind to form the idea of the other, and the impression of the one to form a more lively idea of the other.
Page 279 - But it was not until the early part of the Nineteenth Century that the general notion that the whole body of the higher organisms was composed of a mass of cells was gained.
Page 112 - To promote original research, paying great attention thereto as one of the most important of all departments; (2) to discover the exceptional man in every department of study, whenever and wherever found, inside or outside of schools, and enable him to make the work for which he seems specially designed his life work...
Page 33 - The post exchange will combine the features of reading and recreation rooms, a cooperative store, and a restaurant. Its primary purpose is to supply the troops at reasonable prices with the articles of ordinary use, wear, and consumption not supplied by the Government, and to afford them means of rational recreation and amusement.
Page 389 - Charles V., with an account of the Emperor's life after his abdication by Prescott (Philadelphia, 1804-07) ; îîaumgarten, Geschichte Kurts V.
Page 240 - We have no other notion of cause and effect, but that of certain objects, which have been always conjoin'd together, and which in all past instances have been found inseparable. We cannot penetrate into the reason of the conjunction.
Page 112 - ... 3. To increase facilities for higher education. 4. To increase the efficiency of the Universities and other institutions of learning throughout the country, by utilizing and adding to their existing facilities and aiding teachers in the various institutions for experimental and other work, in these institutions as far as advisable.
Page 219 - prophet has been already indicated. The work of an " evangelist " mainly consists in endeavoring to " bring in " those who are without. The "angel " of the Catholic Apostolic church corresponds with the bishop of other Christian denominations.
Page 344 - Edinburgh, and in 1832 he published a work on political economy. In 1833 appeared his Bridgewater treatise, On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man.
Page 368 - I am little of a Unitarian, have little sympathy with the system of Priestley and Belsham, and stand aloof from all but those who strive and pray for clearer light, who look for a purer and more effectual manifestation of Christian truth.