The Physical Basis of SocietyD. Appleton and Company, 1916 - 406 من الصفحات |
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... given group- ings of words , but he who gives the impression that the ideas conveyed are the result of his own thought - processes . I make no pretense to originality . I cannot remember the sources of many of my ideas , though I have ...
... given group- ings of words , but he who gives the impression that the ideas conveyed are the result of his own thought - processes . I make no pretense to originality . I cannot remember the sources of many of my ideas , though I have ...
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... given . Older emphasis on personal virtues . Newer emphasis on social virtues . Certain tests of fitness of a state to survive . Selection of right crimes . The degree of protection given the bodies and lives of citizens . The education ...
... given . Older emphasis on personal virtues . Newer emphasis on social virtues . Certain tests of fitness of a state to survive . Selection of right crimes . The degree of protection given the bodies and lives of citizens . The education ...
الصفحة 4
... given niche in the series has resulted in its discovery . We are beginning to speak of " electrons " and " ions " and to realize that matter is not the inert thing we have thought it to be . Radium gives off three classes of rays . The ...
... given niche in the series has resulted in its discovery . We are beginning to speak of " electrons " and " ions " and to realize that matter is not the inert thing we have thought it to be . Radium gives off three classes of rays . The ...
الصفحة 13
... given conditions for the best result . He knows that alfalfa will send its roots ten to twenty feet to water , while to produce corn it is neces- sary to have the water close to the surface . With the exception of the tides , and ...
... given conditions for the best result . He knows that alfalfa will send its roots ten to twenty feet to water , while to produce corn it is neces- sary to have the water close to the surface . With the exception of the tides , and ...
الصفحة 18
... given conditions , an in- crease may produce greater results as this chart shows : Relation Between Annual Rainfall and Number of Sheep per Square Mile in Australia and Argentina Sheep per Increased capacity for Rainfall square mile ...
... given conditions , an in- crease may produce greater results as this chart shows : Relation Between Annual Rainfall and Number of Sheep per Square Mile in Australia and Argentina Sheep per Increased capacity for Rainfall square mile ...
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الصفحة 155 - Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.
الصفحة 139 - I happened to read for amusement ' Malthus on Population,' and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence which everywhere goes on from long-continued observation of the habits of animals and plants, it at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed. The result of this would be the formation of new species. Here then I had at last got a theory by which to work...
الصفحة 58 - Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice.
الصفحة 139 - In October 1838, that is, fifteen months after I had begun my systematic enquiry, I happened to read for amusement Malthus on Population, and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence which everywhere goes on from long-continued observation of the habits of animals and plants, it at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would...
الصفحة 54 - It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures.
الصفحة 186 - The two parents between them contribute on the average onehalf of each inherited faculty, each of them contributing onequarter of it. The four grandparents contribute between them one-quarter, or each of them one-sixteenth ; and so on, the sum of the series i + J + i + TV + , being equal to 1, as it should be.
الصفحة 126 - This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.
الصفحة 58 - I am tempted to give one more instance showing how plants and animals, remote in the scale of nature, are bound together by a web of complex relations.
الصفحة 159 - I can conceive in biology would be the discovery of the instability which leads to the continual division of the cell. When I look at a dividing cell I feel as an astronomer might do if he beheld the formation of a double star: that an original act of creation is taking place before me.
الصفحة 58 - I have also found that the visits of bees are necessary for the fertilization of some kinds of clover; for instance, 20 heads of Dutch clover (Trifolium repens) yielded 2,290 seeds, but 20 other heads protected from bees produced not one.