Science and Life: Aberdeen AdressesE. P. Dutton, 1920 - 229 páginas |
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... effect of unremittent physical labour . The very same movement which lightened the task of men , favoured women even The minimisation of individual brute strength in the affairs of life could hardly do otherwise . ITS EFFECT ON ...
... effect of unremittent physical labour . The very same movement which lightened the task of men , favoured women even The minimisation of individual brute strength in the affairs of life could hardly do otherwise . ITS EFFECT ON ...
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... effect on human nature have been more immediate and universal than could be produced by any local migrations in themselves . The change is the more immediate and complete , as one generation succeeds another , among those upon whom the ...
... effect on human nature have been more immediate and universal than could be produced by any local migrations in themselves . The change is the more immediate and complete , as one generation succeeds another , among those upon whom the ...
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... effects of science are obvious enough . But these are but special instances of a universal change , which the modern doctrine of energy enables us to envisage in its entirety . All life - processes demand for their continuation and ...
... effects of science are obvious enough . But these are but special instances of a universal change , which the modern doctrine of energy enables us to envisage in its entirety . All life - processes demand for their continuation and ...
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... effects are small but enduring , and , almost imperceptible in themselves , come to maturity in due time in the cosmical calendar . Small as is the proportion of uranium and thorium in the rocks of the earth , the energy they evolve is ...
... effects are small but enduring , and , almost imperceptible in themselves , come to maturity in due time in the cosmical calendar . Small as is the proportion of uranium and thorium in the rocks of the earth , the energy they evolve is ...
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... effect , but he would be a bold prophet who would declare for how long a time this may remain true . If the ancient legend of a philosopher's stone ever becomes reality , and if means are found for artificially transmuting the elements ...
... effect , but he would be a bold prophet who would declare for how long a time this may remain true . If the ancient legend of a philosopher's stone ever becomes reality , and if means are found for artificially transmuting the elements ...
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