The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 65McClure, Phillips and Company, 1904 - Science |
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... animal there is a subtle influence , which we can not measure , always at work , and working to the end that the embryo becomes at last that which from the first it was fated to be- come . We call this the influence of heredity , but to ...
... animal there is a subtle influence , which we can not measure , always at work , and working to the end that the embryo becomes at last that which from the first it was fated to be- come . We call this the influence of heredity , but to ...
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... animals . From these it is a far cry indeed to the shales of Florissant , where in their day the earliest birds went out to catch the latest worm there was , and again to the Green River shales of the northwest with their extinct ...
... animals . From these it is a far cry indeed to the shales of Florissant , where in their day the earliest birds went out to catch the latest worm there was , and again to the Green River shales of the northwest with their extinct ...
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... animal . The very fact that the 12,000 - feet - high plateau is deeply excavated by the valleys and canyons of the great rivers , and that this part of the plateau is submitted to the influence of the monsoons blowing from the south ...
... animal . The very fact that the 12,000 - feet - high plateau is deeply excavated by the valleys and canyons of the great rivers , and that this part of the plateau is submitted to the influence of the monsoons blowing from the south ...
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... animals as to cripple very seri- ously the native farming . Improved stock of different kinds has been im- ported for the stock farm , and the at- tempt will be made to ascertain the breeds and crosses best adapted to ex- isting ...
... animals as to cripple very seri- ously the native farming . Improved stock of different kinds has been im- ported for the stock farm , and the at- tempt will be made to ascertain the breeds and crosses best adapted to ex- isting ...
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... animals out of winter quarters . Work is also being pushed with all pos- sible speed on several new houses in the garden , the most important of which are the bird house , to cost $ 115,000 ; the small mammal house , to cost $ 38 ...
... animals out of winter quarters . Work is also being pushed with all pos- sible speed on several new houses in the garden , the most important of which are the bird house , to cost $ 115,000 ; the small mammal house , to cost $ 38 ...
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Page 289 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?
Page 531 - I am labouring to lay the foundation, not of any sect or doctrine, but of human utility and power.
Page 258 - And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
Page 337 - It is a pity to see Lord Monboddo publish such notions as he has done: a man of sense, and of so much elegant learning. There would be little in a fool doing it; we should only laugh; but when a wise man does it we are sorry. Other people have strange notions; but they conceal them. If they have tails they hide them; but Monboddo is as jealous of his tail as a squirrel.
Page 211 - There can also be little doubt that the tendency to vary in the same manner has often been so strong that all the individuals of the same species have been similarly modified without the aid of any form of selection.
Page 532 - It can be read maliciously, but abstain. She says of Romance : ' The young who avoid that region escape the title of Fool at the cost of a celestial crown.
Page 506 - Natural science must ever regard knowledge as the product of irrational conditions, for in the last resort it knows no others. It must always regard knowledge as rational, or else science itself disappears. In addition, therefore, to the difficulty of extracting from experience beliefs which experience contradicts, we are confronted with the difficulty of harmonising the pedigree of our beliefs with their title to authority. The more successful we are in explaining their origin, the more doubt we...
Page 265 - Lazear also experimented on himself at the same time, but was not infected. Some days later, while in the yellow-fever ward, he was bitten by a mosquito and noted the fact carefully. He acquired the disease in its most terrible form and died a martyr to science and a true hero. No other fatality occurred among the brave men who, in the course of the experiments, willingly exposed themselves to the infection of the dreaded disease. A camp was especially constructed for the experiments about 4 miles...