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... germ plasm unaffected by its environment ? Concern- ing such questions the scientists debate . But the fact that life has evolved in an ordered series from the lower forms to the higher , and that each individual reproduces in embryo ...
... germ plasm unaffected by its environment ? Concern- ing such questions the scientists debate . But the fact that life has evolved in an ordered series from the lower forms to the higher , and that each individual reproduces in embryo ...
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... germs of human morality . Kropotkin points out that everywhere throughout nature it is the social and not the solitary animals which are most numerous and most successful . There are many millions of ants and bees for every hawk or ...
... germs of human morality . Kropotkin points out that everywhere throughout nature it is the social and not the solitary animals which are most numerous and most successful . There are many millions of ants and bees for every hawk or ...
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... and beget themselves ; we suspect that they have a germ of consciousness in them ; but we are surer of the meaning and importance of the consciousness we detect in some complex organism like a fish or bird . We THE BOOK OF THE MIND 43.
... and beget themselves ; we suspect that they have a germ of consciousness in them ; but we are surer of the meaning and importance of the consciousness we detect in some complex organism like a fish or bird . We THE BOOK OF THE MIND 43.
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... germs to our blood , some mysterious power causes millions of our blood corpuscles to be rushed to this spot , to destroy and devour the invading enemy . We do not know how this is done , but it is an intelligent act , measured and ...
... germs to our blood , some mysterious power causes millions of our blood corpuscles to be rushed to this spot , to destroy and devour the invading enemy . We do not know how this is done , but it is an intelligent act , measured and ...
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... defenders from invasion by outside germs . There are certain outer portions of the body , such as nails and the scales of the skin , which are dead matter , produced by the body and pushed out from it and no 106 MIND AND BODY.
... defenders from invasion by outside germs . There are certain outer portions of the body , such as nails and the scales of the skin , which are dead matter , produced by the body and pushed out from it and no 106 MIND AND BODY.
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Page 196 - HOW happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! Whose passions not his masters are; Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the world by care Of public fame or private breath...
Page 197 - Nor ruin make accusers great; Who God doth late and early pray More of His grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book or friend; — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands; And have nothing, yet hath all.
Page 197 - Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great ; Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend, And entertains the harmless day, With a religious book or friend.
Page 39 - The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Page 44 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night — It was the plant and flower of Light. In small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Page 174 - I would not like to guess just what percentage of dying people in our hospitals might be saved if the doctors would withdraw all food from them...
Page 21 - ... reactionary (according as he placed his good either in the future or the past), or, thirdly, pessimistic, as in the poetry of regret or of despair. Hesiod sings of a lost golden age, and in this he represents the most pervading sentiment of ancient culture. Dante, on the other hand, had fixed his gaze on ' one far off divine event, towards which the whole Creation moves.
Page 41 - I say to you that if you want to find happiness in this life, look with distrust upon all absolutes, and ultimates, all hard and fast rules, all formulas and dogmas and "general principles." Bear in mind that there are many factors in every case, there are many complications in every human being, there are many sides to every question. Try to keep an open mind and an even temper. Try to take an interest in learning something new every day, and in trying some new experiment. This is the scientific...
Page 41 - ... general principles." Bear in mind that there are many factors in every case, there are many complications in every human being, there are many sides to every question. Try to keep an open mind and an even temper. Try to take an interest in learning something new every day, and in trying some new experiment. This is the scientific attitude toward life; this is the way of growth and of true success. It is inconvenient, because it involves working your brains, and most people have not been taught...
Page 173 - I have known of two or three cases of people dying while they were fasting," Sinclair writes in his Book of Life, "but I feel quite certain that the fast did not cause their death, they would have died anyhow.