Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Volume 24, Parts 1875-1876 |
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Page 2 - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done : and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there anything whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Page 24 - States, who reads the measures as they are set clown in the journals and the memoirs in which the original observations are described. It is of secondary consequence whether the standards are metric standards, or* standards such as are in use among ourselves. This bureau will equally verify them all, and compare them all with standards of other nations founded on different linear bases, so long as such differences shall continue to exist. It is, therefore, not merely an international bureau of weights...
Page 218 - They drive almost as readily as sheep, and may be burned in large quantities by being driven into windrows or piles of burning hay or straw. But the experience of the present year convinces me that by far the most effectual way for man to protect his crops and do battle to these young locust armies — especially where, as in West Missouri,- this spring, there was no hay or straw to burn — is by ditching. A ditch two feet wide and two feet deep, with perpendicular sides, offers an effectual barrier...
Page 16 - Some centuries ago, great theological disgust was produced by the announcement that the sun and not the earth was the centre of the planetary system.
Page xix - The objects of the Association are, by periodical and migratory meetings, to promote intercourse between those who are cultivating science...
Page 266 - The latest investigations respecting the early condition of the human race, are tending to the conclusion that mankind commenced their career at the bottom of the scale and worked their way up from savagery to civilization through the slow accumulations of experimental knowledge.
Page 4 - ... the past duration of the earth be finite, then the aggregate of geological epochs, however numerous, must constitute a mere moment of the past, a mere infinitesimal portion of eternity.
Page 23 - ... equilibrium. This necessity implies an unseen power, an invisible universe, in which the visible universe must have originated and to which its energy is ever returning. The hiatus between the seen and the unseen may be bridged over by the conceptions of atomic vortices of force, and by the universal and continuous ether; but whether or not, it has become clear that the conception of the unseen as existing has become necessary to our belief in the possible existence of the physical universe itself,...
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Page 274 - So essentially identical are the arts, institutions, and mode of life in the same status upon all the continents, that the archaic form of the principal domestic institutions of the Greeks and Romans must even now be sought in the corresponding institutions of the American Aborigines.