Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Volume 17, Parts 1868-1869 |
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Page 353 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 45 - He is gone who seem'd so great. Gone; but nothing can bereave him Of the force he made his own Being here, and we believe him Something far advanced in State, And that he wears a truer crown Than any wreath that man can weave him. Speak no more of his renown, Lay your earthly fancies down, And in the vast cathedral leave him. God accept him, Christ receive him.
Page ix - Association are, by periodical and migratory meetings, to promote intercourse between those who are cultivating science In different parts of America, to give a stronger and more general impulse and more systematic direction to scientific research, and to procure for the labors of scientific men increased facilities and a wider usefulness.
Page 40 - Foremost captain of his time, Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
Page 352 - The objects of the Association are, by periodical and migratory meetings, to promote intercourse between those who are cultivating science in different parts of...
Page 88 - How this metamorphosis takes place, how a force existing as motion, heat or light, can become a mode of consciousness — how it is possible for aerial vibrations to generate the sensation we call sound, or for the forces liberated by chemical changes in the brain to give rise to emotion, these are mysteries which it is impossible to fathom.
Page 338 - External Form. This is the outer of those two ridges described by Mr. GK Gilbert in the May number of the "American Journal of Science and Arts," in 1871, and regarded by him as ancient lake beaches. Its form differs considerably from those ridges already described. While it has as much gravel as the St. John's Ridge, or perhaps more, in proportion to its size, it is much narrower, and has little or no influence in determining the direction...
Page 88 - That no idea or feeling arises, save as a result of some physical force expended in producing it, is fast becoming a common-place of science...
Page xii - No paper shall be placed in the programme, unless admitted by the Sectional Committee ; nor shall any be read, unless an abstract of it has been previously presented to the Secretary of the Section, who shall furnish to the Chairman the titles of papers, of which abstracts have been received. RULE 10. The author of any paper or communication shall be at liberty to retain his right of property therein, provided he declare such to be his wish before presenting it to the Association.
Page 88 - Various classes of facts thus unite to prove that the law of metamorphosis, which holds among the physical forces, holds equally between them and the mental forces. Those modes of the Unknowable which we call motion, heat, light, chemical affinity, &c., are alike transformable into each other, and into those modes of the Unknowable which we distinguish as sensation, emotion, thought : these, in their turns, being directly or indirectly re-transformable into the original shapes.