Science and Life: Aberdeen AdressesE. P. Dutton, 1920 - 229 páginas |
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... complete neglect by the intellectual world of the theme , for philosophies " of lighter and less solid wood . " I have included , as an appendix , some articles and reports bearing on certain definite charges which I have made , and ...
... complete neglect by the intellectual world of the theme , for philosophies " of lighter and less solid wood . " I have included , as an appendix , some articles and reports bearing on certain definite charges which I have made , and ...
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... complete , as one generation succeeds another , among those upon whom the struggle for existence presses the more directly . It began at the bottom with the unskilled labourer . It is resisted the more strenuously , and for the time the ...
... complete , as one generation succeeds another , among those upon whom the struggle for existence presses the more directly . It began at the bottom with the unskilled labourer . It is resisted the more strenuously , and for the time the ...
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... complete combustion of the same weight of coal . Yet in the fifteen years that have elapsed since the discovery no measurable diminu- tion of this rate of emission has been observed . If science is right , this emission will steadily ...
... complete combustion of the same weight of coal . Yet in the fifteen years that have elapsed since the discovery no measurable diminu- tion of this rate of emission has been observed . If science is right , this emission will steadily ...
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... complete , the chief human significance of the new science and its power to interpret the physical side of the drama of life could scarcely have been so early perceived . Radium , no longer a mystery , one of the chemical elements doing ...
... complete , the chief human significance of the new science and its power to interpret the physical side of the drama of life could scarcely have been so early perceived . Radium , no longer a mystery , one of the chemical elements doing ...
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... complete physical stagna- tion and death , is being displaced by a less arbitrary view as science advances and invades more and more the vast territory still beyond its ken . It is at least legitimate to conceive a universe of permanent ...
... complete physical stagna- tion and death , is being displaced by a less arbitrary view as science advances and invades more and more the vast territory still beyond its ken . It is at least legitimate to conceive a universe of permanent ...
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