The Unity of Law: As Exhibited in the Relations of Physical, Social, Mental and Moral ScienceH. C. Baird, 1872 - 433 pages |
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... equal amount of some other force . When , therefore , a force or effect appears , we are not at liberty to assume that it was self - originated , or came from nothing ; when it disappears we are forbidden to conclude that it is ...
... equal amount of some other force . When , therefore , a force or effect appears , we are not at liberty to assume that it was self - originated , or came from nothing ; when it disappears we are forbidden to conclude that it is ...
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... equal force to the whole of Britain , and her attendant islands : - " At a time when artificial drainage was unknown , and in a rainy climate , the flats and hollows which in the Highlands are now generally most valuable portions of the ...
... equal force to the whole of Britain , and her attendant islands : - " At a time when artificial drainage was unknown , and in a rainy climate , the flats and hollows which in the Highlands are now generally most valuable portions of the ...
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... equal and opposite , are facts at the knowledge of which we have arrived in consequence of pursuing a certain mode of investigation ; but , when obtained , they are purely physical facts , ob- tained by help of the instrument to which ...
... equal and opposite , are facts at the knowledge of which we have arrived in consequence of pursuing a certain mode of investigation ; but , when obtained , they are purely physical facts , ob- tained by help of the instrument to which ...
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... equal to all its parts , and that things which are halves of the same thing are equal , axioms of universal application , and equally true in relation to all bodies , whether those treated by the chemist , the sociologist , or the ...
... equal to all its parts , and that things which are halves of the same thing are equal , axioms of universal application , and equally true in relation to all bodies , whether those treated by the chemist , the sociologist , or the ...
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... equal action of opposing forces it is due that the celestial world is enabled to exhibit such wonderful harmony and such unceasing motion . In the application of this principle to the societary movement the people of Greece had all this ...
... equal action of opposing forces it is due that the celestial world is enabled to exhibit such wonderful harmony and such unceasing motion . In the application of this principle to the societary movement the people of Greece had all this ...
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Page 62 - The natural price of labor is that price which is necessary to enable the laborers, one with another, to subsist and perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.
Page 48 - But because the distributions and partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch but in a point ; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs : therefore it is good, before we enter into the former distribution, to erect and constitute one universal science, by the name of Philosophia prima...
Page xx - With savages the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated, and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment.
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Page 208 - ... perpetual thunder and lightning of countless steamboats; the currency sound and abundant; the public debt of two wars nearly redeemed; and, to crown all, the public treasury overflowing, embarrassing Congress, not to find subjects of taxation, but to select the objects which shall be liberated from the impost.