Popular Science Monthly, Volume 66McClure, Phillips and Company, 1904 - Science |
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Page 358 - ... in the United States, and if so, when and where; whether ever in prison or almshouse or an institution or hospital for the care and treatment of the insane or supported by charity; whether a polygamist; whether an anarchist; whether coming by reason of any offer, solicitation, promise, or agreement, expressed or implied, to perform labor in the United States, and what is the alien's condition of health mental and .physical, and whether deformed or crippled, and if so, for how long and from what...
Page 360 - ... until the receipt by the commissioner of immigration at the port of arrival of such decision which shall be rendered solely upon the evidence adduced before the board of special inquiry.
Page 357 - ... the last residence; the seaport for landing in the United States; the final destination, if any, beyond the port of landing; whether having a ticket through to such final destination; whether the alien has paid his own passage, or whether it has been paid by any other person or by any corporation, society, municipality, or government, ana if so, by whom...
Page 263 - that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of their distances from each other.
Page 180 - So I say at once that in my humble opinion there is no 'new psychology' worthy of the name. There is nothing but the old psychology which began in Locke's time, plus a little physiology of the brain and senses and theory of evolution, and a few refinements of introspective detail, for the most part without adaptation to the teacher's use. It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to the teacher; and they, apart from the aforesaid theory of evolution, are very far...
Page 360 - Each board shall consist of three members, who shall be selected from such of the immigrant officials in the service as the Commissioner General of Immigration, with the approval of the Secretary of Labor, shall from time to time designate as qualified to serve on such boards.
Page 195 - Languages, and in the arts of numbering and in the arts of reasoning exactly and writing correctly, and speaking eloquently ; and in the arts of numbering and measuring: of Surveying and Navigation, of Geography and History, of Husbandry, Commerce, and Government...
Page 346 - It upsets the whole basis of theology. If the earth is a planet, and only one among several planets, it can not be that any such great things have been done specially for it as . the Christian doctrine teaches. ' If there are other planets, since God makes nothing in vain, they must be inhabited ; but how can their inhabitants be descended from Adam ? How can they trace back their origin to Noah's ark ? How can they have been redeemed by the Saviour?
Page 102 - ... the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Academy of Sciences, the Smithsonian Institution and the Carnegie Institution.
Page 538 - My second fixed idea is the uselessness of men above sixty years of age, and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, political and in professional life if, as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.