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Page 16 - No, faith, not a jot ; but to follow him thither with modesty enough and likelihood to lead it : as thus : Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust ; the dust is earth ; of earth we make loam ; and why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel ? Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away...
Page 13 - Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth, have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
Page 45 - For this purpose I diminished a similar mixture of dephlogisticated and common air, in the same manner as before, till it was reduced to a small part of its original bulk. I then, in order to decompound as much as I could of the phlogisticated air which remained in the tube, added some dephlogisticated air to it, and continued the spark until no further diminution took place.
Page 117 - Avogadro's law states that equal volumes of all gases at the same temperature and pressure contain the same number of molecules...
Page 131 - Human society never has been quite static, and it will presently cease to attempt to be static. Everything seems pointing to the belief that we are entering upon a progress that will go on, with an ever widening and ever more confident stride, forever. The reorganization of society that is going on now beneath the traditional appearance of tilings is a kinetic reorganization.
Page 46 - ... no further diminution took place. Having, by these means, condensed as much as I could of the phlogisticated air, I let up some solution of liver of sulphur...
Page 46 - I let up some solution of liver of sulphur to absorb the dephlogisticated air, after which only a small bubble of air remained unabsorbed, which certainly was not more than -j-^ of the bulk of the phlogisticated air let up into the tube ; so that if there is any part of the phlogisticated air of our atmosphere which differs from the rest and cannot be reduced to nitrous acid, we may safely conclude that it is not more than T^ part of the whole.
Page 131 - All this world is heavy with the promise of greater things, and a day will come, one day in the unending succession of days, when beings, beings who are now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon this earth as one stands upon a footstool, and shall laugh and reach out their hands amidst the stars.
Page 45 - ... be doubted whether the whole is of this kind, or whether there are not in reality many different substances confounded together by us under the name of phlogisticated air. I therefore made an experiment to determine whether the whole of a given portion of the phlogisticated air of the atmosphere could be reduced to nitrous acid, or whether there was not a part of a different nature to the rest which would refuse to undergo that change.
Page 55 - The one places a single life above all victories, the other sacrifices hundreds of thousands of lives to the ambition of a single individual The law of which we are the instruments strives even through the carnage to cure the wounds due to the law of war.
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| Titre | Chemistry and Civilization Richard Westbrook lectures of the Wagner Free Institute of Science |
| Auteur | Allerton Seward Cushman |
| Collaborateur | Wagner Free Institute of Science. Richard B. Westbrook Free Lectureship Foundation |
| Éditeur | R. G. Badger, 1920 |
| Original provenant de | l'Université du Michigan |
| Numérisé | 16 juil. 2007 |
| Longueur | 151 pages |
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