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These circumstances, with the thorough conviction that it is a useful and valuable establishment, and the strong hopes that exertions will be followed with success, have decided me in giving it at least two years more , in the belief that after that time it will proceed well, into whatever hands it may pass.
“Now that his pecuniary circumstances, ” it went on, “were improved, he sent boarding-school his younger sister , but to enable him to defray the expense, to deprive himself of dinner every other day was absolutely indispensable. ” Peel expressed to Ashley lively regret at not having received the historiette earlier when he was still in office.
I am sure no man living has a better claim to such a consideration from the State than he has, and I trust the principle I acted on with regard to the award of civil pensions will not only remove away impediments of delicacy and independent feeling from the acceptance of them, but will add the grant of a pension as an honourable a higher value distinction than any that it could derive from its pecuniary amount.
Later in the day he had a short interview with the First Lord of the Treasury, when Lord Melbourne, utterly mistaking the nature of the man before him, inveighed roundly upon the whole system of giving scientific and literary persons pensions , which he described as a piece of humbug.
Faraday, adverting oersted ’s discovery a quarter of a century later , said: “It burst open the gates of a domain in science, dark till then, and filled it with a flood of light. ”
Wollaston’s expectation of the rotation of the electromagnetic wire around its axis. ” As was so often his custom, he had no sooner finished publication the research than he dashed off a brief summary of it in a letter to one of his friends.
I intend to enclose you a copy of it with the other, and only want the means of sending it.
I already owe these notes much , and think such a collection worth the making by every scientific man.
In 1823 Faraday read the royal society two papers , one on Liquid Chlorine, the other on the Condensation of several Gases into Liquids.
I expect to be able to reduce the liquid many other gases form, and promise myself the pleasure of writing you about them.
Davy, who added faraday ’s published paper a characteristic note , immediately applied the same method of liquefaction by its own pressure to hydrochloric acid gas; and Faraday reduced a number of other gases by the same means.
Davy, who added a characteristic note to Faraday’s published paper, immediately applied hydrochloric acid gas the same method of liquefaction by its own pressure ; and Faraday reduced a number of other gases by the same means.
In 1825 the Royal Society Committee delegated a sub-committee of three , herschel ( afterwards sir john ) , dollond ( the optician ) , and faraday the investigation of optical glass .
In answer to this Faraday sent dr. roget , sec . the following letter
With reference to the request which the Council of the Royal Society have done me the honour of making--namely, that I should continue the investigation--I should, under circumstances of perfect freedom, assent to it at once; but obliged as I have been to devote the experiments already described the whole of my spare time , and consequently to resign the pursuit of such philosophical inquiries as suggested themselves to my own mind, I would wish, under the present circumstances, to lay the glass aside for a while, that I may enjoy the pleasure of working out my own thoughts on other subjects.
With reference to the request which the Council of the Royal Society have done me the honour of making--namely, that I should continue the investigation--I should, under circumstances of perfect freedom, assent to it at once; but obliged as I have been to devote the whole of my spare time to the experiments already described, and consequently to resign my own mind the pursuit of such philosophical inquiries as suggested themselves , I would wish, under the present circumstances, to lay the glass aside for a while, that I may enjoy the pleasure of working out my own thoughts on other subjects.
I consider our results as negative, except as regards any good that may have resulted from my heavy glass in the hands of Amici (who applied microscopes it ) and in my late experiments on light.
He had gone on contributing the philosophical transactions and to the quarterly journal chemical papers .
Put magnetism from some external source into the iron core, and then try whether on connecting a galvanometer the copper coil there was any indication of an electric current.
Again, in the year 1822, Ampère, being at Geneva, showed to Professor A. de la Rive in his laboratory a number of electromagnetic experiments from his classical researches; and amongst them one[20] which has been almost forgotten, but which, had it been followed up, would assuredly have led the discovery of the induction of currents Ampère .
He and Ampère both attributed temporary magnetism conferred upon the copper ring the effect .
Ampère himself was at the time disposed to attribute the possible presence of a little iron as an impurity in the copper it .
And, reasoning from the apparent action of stationary copper in bringing rest a moving magnetic needle , he conjectured that a moving mass of copper might produce motion in a stationary magnetic needle.
Then he rearranged the facts which he had thus harvested, and wrote them out in corrected form as the first series of his “Experimental Researches in Electricity. ” The memoir was read to the Royal Society on November 24, 1831, though it did not appear in printed form until January, 1832--a delay which gave serious misunderstandings rise .
Slowly, haltingly, led by the dirge of priests, now in darkness, now lighted by the torches’ flare and intermittent beams from cottage doorways, groping at corners, stumbling in ill-paved by-ways, the mourners follow his grave their God .
Now it is easy enough to suppose, as Sainte-Croix suggests[1448], that public morals were safeguarded by assigning persons of advanced age the chief rôles in the drama , or, as one ancient author states[1449], by temporarily and partially paralysing the hierophant with a small dose of hemlock.
It was, I think, in this spirit and this belief that the Athenians in old time called their dead Δημητρεῖοι ‘Demeter’s folk[1454]’; for the popular belief in the condescension of the Mistress, great and reverend goddess though she was, was so firmly rooted, it would seem, that even to this day the folk-stories, as we have seen, still tell how the ‘Mistress of the earth and of the sea, ’ she whom men still call Despoina and reverence for her love of righteousness and for her stern punishment of iniquity, has yet admitted her embrace in the mountain-cavern where , as of old in arcady , she still dwells[1455 ] brave heroes .
Whencesoever derived, they owed the fact that their character appealed to certain native religious instincts of the greek folk their reception in Greece .
After relating in terms unnecessarily disgusting the legend of how by the very act of Uranus’ self-mutilation the sea became pregnant and gave the goddess aphrodite birth from among its foam , he states that ‘in the rites which celebrate this voluptuousness of the sea, as a token of the goddess’ birth there are handed to those that are being initiated into the lore of adultery (τοῖς μυουμένοις τὴν τέχνην τὴν μοιχικήν) a lump of salt and a phallus; and they for their part present her with a coin, as if they were her lovers and she their mistress (ὡς ἑταίρας ἐρασταί)[1457]. ’ Thus Clement; but those who are willing to see in the mysteries of the Greek religion something more than organised sensuality will do well to reflect whether that which Clement calls ‘being initiated into the lore of adultery’ was not really an initiation into those hopes of marriage with the gods of which we have already found evidence in the popular religion, and whether the goddess’ symbolic acceptance of her worshippers as lovers does not fit in exactly with that bold conception of man’s future bliss.
The conception of human sacrifice as a means of sending some power above a messenger from this world , which receives clear expression in that modern story from Santorini which I have narrated in an earlier chapter[1463], was, I have there argued, known also to the ancient Greeks; and the same means of communication may equally well have been employed for the despatch of a human wife to some god.
One conception of the punishment of the uninitiated was, according to Plato[1496], that they should carry a broken jar water in a sieve ; and this, as is well known, was also the lot of the Danaids in the nether world.
It is just these qualities which give a blasphemous parody of such epitaphs , in which the wit of ausonius exposes the worst possible aspect of a religious conception which to the pure-minded was wholly pure pungency .
Thus even the highest aspirations of the most spiritually-minded of pagan thinkers owed the purely popular religion much .
But if Plato, even in his conception of a purely spiritual life hereafter, owed the popular religion something , he drew upon it far more freely in his conception of Love.
‘So then I say, ’ says Phaedrus, ‘that Love is the most venerable of the gods, the most worthy of honour, the most powerful to grant virtue and blessedness unto mankind both in life and after death[1528]. ’ And in the same tone too Eryximachus: ‘He it is that wields the mightiest power and is the source for us of all blessedness and of our power to have loving fellowship both with one another and with the gods that are stronger than we[1529]. ’ And finally Aristophanes: It is Love, ‘who in this present life gives us most joys by drawing like unto like, and for our hereafter displays hopes most high, if we for our part display piety towards the gods, that he will restore our erstwhile nature us and will heal us and will make us happy and blessed[1530]. ’
Migne) refers the rites of demeter and kore the formulary .
Plato applies the gods as a whole the same epithet , but above all to Eros, clearly, I think, with something of the same significance.
; as means of sending some god a wife , 583; long-continued in Ancient Greece, 343; modern story of, 339, 436; substitute for, 583
Nibble gloried in his good fortune, so he told Mrs. Ratt about all the good things he had to eat, and to crown this air of plenty he invited a party Mrs. Ratt and all her family the following night.
He had some fine old cheese and was going to make his friends a rarebit , but he got so hungry that he ate it all up, and on the night of the party he found that he had but one cracker and a piece of an old shoe.
As he never saw them again he had strong suspicions that Thomas and Maria had added their long list of misdeeds another crime .
Then she glided slowly forward and backward, making the little boy low courtesies .
Laugh like old men with senses atrophied, Heeding the future dead no Present, , Nodding quite foolish by the warm fireside And seeing no flame, but only in the red And flickering embers, pictures of the past:-- Life like a cinder fading black at last.
I cannot give you happiness: For wishes long have ceased to bring The Fortune which to page and king They brought in those good centuries, When with a quaint and starry wand Witches turned gold poor men’s thoughts And Cinderella’s carriage rolled Through moonlight into Fairyland.
Satan, of old your custom ’twas at least To throw the soul an apple you caught Robbing your orchard.
For me, I do but bear within my hand (For sake of Him our Lord, now long forsaken) A simple bugle such as may awaken With one high morning note a drowsing man: That wheresoe’er within my motherland The sound may come, ’twill echo far and wide Like pipes of battle calling up a clan, Trumpeting god ’s side men through beauty .
Although he did not discover it, his explorations and reports were largely responsible for calling that area attention .
John Hay fancifully compares that of the wild bee in the western woods , who , rising to the clear air , flies for a moment in a circle , and then darts with the speed of a rifle bullet to its destination his action at this time “. ”
Sherman, who of all men had the best opportunity to know and was best qualified to weigh the extent and character of his work, declares: “No commanding general of an army ever gave detail more of his personal attention , or wrote so many of his own orders, reports, or letters.
There was nothing too large for him to grasp; nothing small enough for him to overlook. ” He gave “generals , sea-captains , quartermasters , commissaries direction , for every incident of the opening of the campaign, then mounted his horse and rode to his troops. ” And then, for three weeks, in quick and dazzling succession, came staggering, stunning blows, one after the other-Raymond-Jackson-Champion’s Hill-The Big Black-until he stood with his army at the very gates of Vicksburg!
Wounds are healed; asperities are forgotten; the past is remembered without bitterness; glory hovers like a benediction over this immortal field and guards with solemn round the bivouac of all the dead, giving the garb they wore no heed .
Indiana has come to Mississippi to dedicate the memory of her soldiers , living and dead , who struggled here monuments erected by her ; but she comes with malice toward none, with love for all.
He has come to lend this occasion the benediction of his presence , and to look again upon the ground where so many dramatic and tragic scenes were enacted-scenes in which he had honorable share-scenes that were burned into the very fiber of his young manhood’s memory, and which he would not forget if he could.
They give this occasion character and purpose and a benediction to this service.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Commission, in the name of the State of Indiana and on her behalf, I accept these splendid monuments and these markers you have erected and which you have so eloquently tendered me, and in the name of the State and on behalf of her people, Captain Rigby, I now present you them , as the representative of the National Government, and give them through you into its keeping, to be held and kept forever as a sacred trust-a reminder to the countless thousands that in the gathering years may look upon them, of the share Indiana had in the great campaign that ended here July 4, 1863.
The study of the life and record of our own kind rightly means us more than can most other subjects.
“Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin sin :
The reluctant court agreed to take a chance on Isaiah’s insistence, and so to trust the god of israel their cause .
In others of the pictures they were seen to be gathering the grapes and conveying the press them .
After forty years of research in Asia Minor, Sir William Ramsay himself discovered the evidence that converted the orthodox and historical view him personally , and demonstrated conclusively that Luke unquestionably wrote the two books that are accredited to him.
The people literally passed into the possession of the crown, and Egypt became a nation of slaves who owed the royal head of the government their very existence .
As an illustration of the art and development of that culture, we refer the tomb of a court official at the dawn of the sixth dynasty the reader .
The old error must now be abandoned, or else we must close the entire record of archeological discovery our eyes , and frankly confess that we are not interested in facts which refute erroneous, but accepted theories.
Gilgamesh, learning that an enemy had been created for his destruction, exercised craft and lured the city of erech Enkedu .
Another one of the disputed portions of the Old Testament text which brought the habitually hopeful among the destructive critics great comfort , is that section of Genesis which deals with the record of Nimrod and the tower of Babel.
Modern archeology not only has failed to bring the critics any aid in this particular incident, but has robbed them of all their carefully erected structure of argument which was predicated upon the assumption that the tower of Babel was entirely mythological.
Time has, of course, ravished some extent this monument , but enough of its grandeur and glory remains to show it forth as the most ancient as well as the most magnificent of the Babylonian ziggurats.
There they ruled, established a dynasty and possessed themselves the land .
We now find that when the whole land hungered, the lords ceded the crown their real estate for grain to keep themselves and their families alive.
The people sold pharaoh themselves and became slaves, on condition that he feed them as he would his cattle.
Against this background of understanding, we now turn one of the most stirring dramas in all human history our thoughts .
Had this epic been invented by some literary genius of antiquity, the arrival of the brothers of Joseph to buy their starving clan grain would be deemed one of the most melodramatic episodes ever conceived by the human mind.
So there came into Egypt that group which was to constitute the spring that gave the historic stream of the hebrew people rise .
Do we owe Satan so great a debt of gratitude for the deep and dark pit of woe into which he has lured our race, that we must lend the same old error slavish attention when he sponsors it today?
Professing to accept the historicity of the events, the article then proceeds to demolish the credibility of the record, by ascribing natural forces , directed by the genius of a human being , namely , moses all the plagues .
Classifying them among the reputed folklore of the Hebrews, and relegating the realm of the purely mythological them , the critic calmly and boldly denied that they ever occurred at all.
No microscope, no instruments of research, yet he not only anticipated the discoveries of Lister and Pasteur, but he also applied the redemption of israel germ warfare , and “bent the Egyptians to his will. ”
No microscope, no instruments of research, yet he not only anticipated the discoveries of Lister and Pasteur, but he also applied germ warfare to the redemption of Israel, and “bent his will the Egyptians . ”
If we follow the mouth its course just from the First Cataract at Assuan , it is over five hundred miles as the river twists and bends round and about.
Here Moses is instructed by God to ask a three-day furlough for the entire company of the twelve tribes Pharaoh , that they might go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Jehovah.
Even more than that, in the resultant series of events, the Lord God brought his own name such glory , and showed such omnipotence that the world has never forgotten this drama, even to our own day and time.
The figure of speech used there is a divine choice, therefore we use it just as God Himself expressed moses His own mind .
This upstart Jehovah, who was He to give pharaoh the mighty orders ?
It brought the entire land of egypt life , and was worshipped with appropriate and very exact ritual.
They were in the bread-trough, and got tangled up in the dough, thus adding the bread a rather quaint flavor !
The Sixth and Seventh Plagues are simple to deal with, as the record of Egypt gives the unprejudiced student here valuable aid .
The medical man of the twentieth century, whose article we are now considering, attributes the bacteriological pollution of the nile , which was accomplished by the skill and wisdom of moses all this painful consequence .
But if God was at war with Imhotep, Reshpu and the gods of healing, and desired to scatter their following and to open the folly of idol worship their eyes , we can see how He might protect His own, while smiting the followers of the false religion.
Moses could leave god it to shame Reshpu and the other gods of the elements in the eyes of their devotees.
These ancient people ascribed certain specific deities the fertility of their fields and the abundance of the harvests .
Thus in Egypt, when God would teach the proud and haughty king whose impertinent comment had been , “ who is this jehovah ? ” an unforgettable lesson , He punctuated His answer to Pharaoh’s question with a swarm of locusts.
Closely related to Amon-Ra, being the means of extending those who worshipped him the power of Ra , he too, fell with a resounding crash, when the hand of The-Only-God-That-There-Is swept all the idols of Egypt off their pedestals, in what might be called the greatest “ten rounds” ever fought!
And all we can say about this latest attempt to explain the victory of God in the land of Egypt by attributing the smartness and genius of a learned man it all , is, it just will not stand up!
In this way he traces the ledge from which the gold originally came his path step by step .
The thoughtless immediately credit the goddess of luck his good fortune and wonder why they also could not be blessed that way.
Some of the wall inscriptions of great conquerors, if taken by themselves, would give their entire era an impression of grandeur and splendor , if we believed such record implicitly.
It was then submitted to Governor Abbett for his approval as they did not care to encounter a veto if a slight change of form would reconcile its provisions him .
Their findings were brought before the legislature and a general road law was enacted providing for a commission of three competent persons who should give those having charge of the public highways advice ; it further contemplated the building and care for by this commission of a system of state highways connecting the several municipalities.
The same act appropriated the survey , construction and maintenance of roads and trails within the national forests when necessary to develop the resources upon which communities within and adjacent to the national forests are dependent $10, 000, 000 .
Too true that the great railroad corporations have not always acted in a manner suitable to the man in the street, that they have often taken too much toll, that they have become rich and arrogant, that they have frequently manipulated the political machinery of government in their own favor, that they have exploited where they should not, that they have shown prominent shippers favoritism , and that they have often borne down heavily on the laboring man; but, this country would never have been developed to its present state of civilization and prosperity without some powerful and efficacious method of transportation.

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