Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, Volum 10

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Pàgina 114 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Pàgina 74 - And if so, it must be true, in the same sense and to the same extent, that the thoughts to which I am now giving utterance, and your thoughts regarding them, are the expression- of molecular changes in that matter of life which is the source of our other vital phenomena.
Pàgina 231 - Tertiary age. The link by which they are connected is of a higher and immaterial nature ; and their connection is to be sought in the view of the Creator himself...
Pàgina 212 - FORMULAE for finding the Discharge of Water from Orifices, Notches, Weirs, Pipes, and Rivers. With New Formulae, Tables, and General Information on Rain-fall, Catchment-Basins, Drainage, Sewerage, Water Supply for Towns and Mill Power. By JOHN NEVILLE, Civil Engineer, MRIA Third Edition, carefully revised, with considerable Additions.
Pàgina 382 - DREAM INTERPRETATION AND THE THEORY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS BY JAMES J. PUTNAM, MD IN spite of all that has been written on the subject, there is still much misconception about the true aim of a psychoanalytic investigation, and the particular sort of help which the analysis of dreams may furnish. Furthermore, too much is made of the assumed defects of the method, or of alleged eccentricities (doubtless sometimes real) in interpretation, or...
Pàgina 212 - MYERS'S REMAINS OF LOST EMPIRES. Remains of Lost Empires : Sketches of the Ruins of Palmyra, Nineveh, Babylon, and Persepolis, with some Notes on India and the Cashmerian Himalayas. By PVN MYERS.
Pàgina 445 - AM)— EXPERIMENTAL MECHANICS. A Course of Lectures delivered at the Royal College of Science for Ireland. By RS BALL, AM, Professor of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics in the Royal College of Science for Ireland.
Pàgina 75 - Strip it naked, and you stand face to face with the notion that not alone the more ignoble forms of animalcular or animal life, not alone the nobler forms of the horse and lion, not alone the exquisite and wonderful mechanism of the human body, but that the human mind itself — emotion, intellect, will, and all their phenomena — were once latent in a fiery cloud.
Pàgina 77 - ... to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the still more remote period when the earth was passing through physical and chemical conditions which it can no more see again than a man can recall his infancy...
Pàgina 228 - He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.

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