 | John Tyndall - 1861 - 494 pages
...exhibition of power, sucli an apparent demonstration of a resident intelligence in what we are acustomed to call " brute matter," would appear perfectly miraculous....there would be nothing intrinsically more wonderful in the process than in the molecular architecture which delighted us upon the summit of Monte Rosa.... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1875 - 610 pages
...towards it its allied atoms, and these arranging themselves as if they moved .io SNO\V FLOWERS. . 225 music, and ended by rendering that music concrete....transcend the fancy. If the Houses of Parliament were bnilt up by the forces resident in their own bricks and lithologic blocks, and without the aid of hodman... | |
 | Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) - 1879 - 214 pages
...eye gifted with a microscopic power sufficient to enable it to see the molecules which composed those starry crystals ; to observe the solid nucleus formed...there would be nothing intrinsically more wonderful in the process than in the molecular architecture which delighted us upon the summit of Monte Rosa."... | |
 | Royal meteorological society - 1879 - 242 pages
...gifted with a microscopic power sufficient to enable it to see the molecules^ which composed those starry crystals ; to observe the solid nucleus formed...there would be nothing intrinsically more wonderful in the process than in the molecular architecture which delighted us upon the summit of Monte Rosa."... | |
 | E. Edmond - 1887 - 268 pages
...interest of the natural philosopher. It was wonderful to think of, as well as beautiful to behold; surely, such an exhibition of power, such an apparent demonstration of a resident intelligence; there was a nobility in the glacier scene, a strength of nature and yet a tenderness which at once... | |
 | E. Edmond - 1887 - 270 pages
...interest of the natural philosopher. It was wonder/ul to think of, as well as beauiiful to behold ; surely, such an exhibition of power, such an apparent demonstration of a resident intelligence ; there was a nobility in the glacier scene, a strength of nature and yet a tenderness which at once... | |
 | John William Moore - 1894 - 492 pages
...drawing towards it its allied atoms, and those arranging themselves as if they moved to music, and ending by rendering that music concrete. Surely such an exhibition...there would be nothing intrinsically more wonderful in the process than in the molecular architecture which delighted us upon the summit of Monte Rosa."... | |
 | Alfred Richard Sennett - 1904 - 608 pages
...allied atoms, and these arranging themselves as if they moved to music, and ended by rendering the music concrete." Surely such an exhibition of power,...resident intelligence in what we are accustomed to call " inert matter," would appear perfectly miraculous. And yet the reality would, if we could see it,... | |
 | Alfred Richard Sennett - 1904 - 608 pages
...allied atoms, and these arranging themselves as if they moved to music, and ended by rendering the music concrete." Surely such an exhibition of power,...apparent demonstration of a resident intelligence in v what we are accustomed to call " inert matter," would appear perfectly miraculous. And yet the reality... | |
 | Sir John William Moore, John William Moore - 1910 - 542 pages
...those arranging themselves as if they moved to music, and ending by rendering that music conerete. Surely such an exhibition of power, such an apparent...there would be nothing intrinsically more wonderful in the process than in the molecular architecture which delighted us upon the summit of Monte Rosa."... | |
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... would appear perfectly miraculous. And yet the reality would, if we could see it, transcend the fancy. If the Houses of Parliament were built up by the forces resident in their own bricks and lithologic blocks, and without the aid of hodman or mason,... 
