The Alphabet and Language: Immortality of the Big Trees. Wealth and Poverty of the Chicago ExpositionW. Doxey, 1894 - 109 pages |
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Page 105 - held an opinion, almost amounting to conviction, in common, I believe,. with many other lovers of natural knowledge, that the various forms under which the forces of matter are made manifest have one common origin; in other words, are so directly related and mutually dependent, that they are convertible, as it were, into one another, and possess equivalents of power in their action.
Page 105 - I HAVE long held an opinion, almost amounting to conviction, in common I believe with many other lovers of natural knowledge, that the various forms under which the forces of matter are made manifest have one common origin; or, in other words, are so directly related and mutually dependent, that they are convertible, as it were, one into another, and possess equivalents of power in their action.3 In modern times the proofs of their convertibility have been accumulated to a very considerable extent,...
Page 42 - It is highly necessary that this strange and lawless method of publishing debates in the papers should be put a stop to. But is not the House of Lords the best court to bring such miscreants before ; as it can fine, as well as imprison, and has broader shoulders to support the odium of so salutary a measure ?
Page 33 - Bible, — a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
Page 92 - York, 1954), vol. 1. / cannot f.\press the amazed awe, the crushed humility, with which I sometimes watch a locomotive take its breath at a railway station, and think what work there is in its bars and wheels, and what manner of men they must be who dig brown iron-stone out of the ground and forge it into that.
Page 92 - Titanian hammer-strokes beating, out of lava, these glittering cylinders and timely-respondent valves, and fine ribbed rods, which touch each other as a serpent writhes, in noiseless gliding, and omnipotence of grasp; infinitely complex anatomy of active steel, compared with which the skeleton of a living creature would seem, to a careless observer, clumsy and vile— a mere morbid secretion and phosphatous prop of flesh!
Page 107 - I have said, Ye are gods, And all of you children of the Most High ; 7 But ye shall die like men, And fall like the rest of the princes.
Page 53 - And for all these reasons far more and mightier in every way is a language than any one of the works which may have been composed in it. For that work, great as it may be, is but the embodying of the mind of a single man, this of a nation. The Iliad is great, yet not so great in strength or power or beauty as the Greek language. Paradise Lost is a noble possession for a people to have inherited, but the English tongue...
Page 66 - Though the wood in the centre of the trunk and large branches — the produce of buds and leaves that have long ago disappeared — may die and decay; yet while new individuals are formed upon the surface with each successive crop of fresh buds, and placed in as favorable communication with the soil and the air as their predecessors, the aggregate tree would appear to have no necessary, no inherent, limit to its existence...
Page 66 - ... why has not the tree all the conditions of existence in the thousandth that it possessed in the hundredth or the tenth year of its age ? The old central part of the trunk may, indeed, decay, but this is of little moment, so long as new layers are regularly formed at the circumference. The tree survives, and it is difficult to show that it is liable to death from old age in any proper sense of the term.