Scientific Use of the Imagination and Other EssaysLongmans, Green and Company, 1872 - 63 páginas |
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... fall back upon such residues as I could find in the depths of consciousness , and out of them to spin the fibre and weave the web of this discourse . Save from memory I had no direct aid upon the mountains ; but to spur up the emotions ...
... fall back upon such residues as I could find in the depths of consciousness , and out of them to spin the fibre and weave the web of this discourse . Save from memory I had no direct aid upon the mountains ; but to spur up the emotions ...
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... falling apple to a falling moon was , at the outset , a leap of the prepared imagination . In Faraday , the exercise of this faculty preceded all his ex- periments , and its function has been impressively set forth by Brodie . When ...
... falling apple to a falling moon was , at the outset , a leap of the prepared imagination . In Faraday , the exercise of this faculty preceded all his ex- periments , and its function has been impressively set forth by Brodie . When ...
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... falling of heavy rain - drops into a tranquil pond . Each drop as it strikes the water becomes a centre of dis- turbance , from which a series of ring - ripples expand outwards . Gravity and inertia are the agents by which this wave ...
... falling of heavy rain - drops into a tranquil pond . Each drop as it strikes the water becomes a centre of dis- turbance , from which a series of ring - ripples expand outwards . Gravity and inertia are the agents by which this wave ...
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... fall into it from the top or front , the medium is seen to be dis- tinctly blue . It is not perhaps so perfect a blue as I have seen on exceptional days , this year , among the Alps , but it is a very fair sky - blue . A trace of soap ...
... fall into it from the top or front , the medium is seen to be dis- tinctly blue . It is not perhaps so perfect a blue as I have seen on exceptional days , this year , among the Alps , but it is a very fair sky - blue . A trace of soap ...
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... fall . Surely these notions represent an absurdity too mon- strous to be entertained by any sane mind . Let us , however , give them fair play . Let us steady ourselves in front of the hypothesis , and , dismissing all terror and ...
... fall . Surely these notions represent an absurdity too mon- strous to be entertained by any sane mind . Let us , however , give them fair play . Let us steady ourselves in front of the hypothesis , and , dismissing all terror and ...
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