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4 Nov 2026

Real stories about real things that matter.

1. A CRITICISM OF CHRISTIANITY

A religious system so many-faced and so enduring as Christianity must necessarily be saturated with truth even if it be not wholly true.

2. Of the eleventh horn of Daniel's fourth Beast

A Seer, Επισκοπος, is a Bishop in the literal sense of the word; and this Church claims the universal Bishoprick.

3. THE PRIMITIVE ARYANS

These Nordic people were destined to play a very important part indeed in the world’s history.

4. THE FIRST SEAGOING PEOPLES

Cnossos was not so much a town as a great palace for the Cretan monarch and his people.

5. OIL-LAMPS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

The oil-lamp and the candle were the mainstays of artificial lighting throughout many centuries.

6. EGYPT, BABYLON AND ASSYRIA

We are entering now upon a thousand years of warfare between the once quite separated civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Nile.

7. THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE

The earliest rocks in the record are called by geologists the Azoic rocks, because they show no traces of life.

8. THE FIRST TRUE MEN

These first real human beings we know of in Europe appear already to have belonged to one or other of at least two very distinct races.

9. THE ADVANCEMENT OF SOCIALISM

In that spirit, and with no presumption of finality, this little book of explanations is given to the world.

On the whole, the common men were probably well content to live under lord or king or god and obey their bidding.

11. THE NEANDERTHAL MEN, AN EXTINCT RACE

About 200 centuries ago or earlier, real men of our own species, if not of our own race, came drifting into the European area.

12. PRIMITIVE NEOLITHIC CIVILIZATIONS

We have to remember that human races can all interbreed freely and that they separate, mingle and reunite as clouds do.

13. GODS AND STARS, PRIESTS AND KINGS

Like the early Aryan life, it was a life in a sort of family-tribe household.

14. THE ARYAN-SPEAKING PEOPLES IN PREHISTORIC TIMES

Priests are not very much in evidence, but there is a sort of medicine man who deals in spells and prophecy.

15. THE LAST BABYLONIAN EMPIRE AND THE EMPIRE OF DARIUS I

Even under the Assyrian monarchs and especially under Sardanapalus, Babylon had been a scene of great intellectual activity.

16. LAYMAN’S SERMON

There were a lot of incidents in my career to help me along—sometimes they helped me along faster than I wanted to go.

17. CHANGES IN THE WORLD’S CLIMATE

It must be borne in mind that great changes of climate have always been in progress, that have sometimes stimulated and sometimes checked life.

18. Foot-fetichism and Shoe-fetichism

Perhaps the chief passion of Restif's life was his love for Colette Parangon.

19. What is Epistemological Realism?

In short, the moral is quite literally, "Forget it," or "Cut it out."

20. On-Line Data-Acquisition Systems in Nuclear Physics, 1969: Preface

The first digital electronic device employed to collect nuclear data was the binary electronic counter (scaler) of the 1930's.

21. REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISM

It was Karl Marx who brought the second great influx of suggestion into the intellectual process of Socialism.

22. THE NEANDERTHALER AND THE RHODESIAN MAN

Mentally and physically they were upon a different line from the human line.

23. THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS

The settled folk had the weight of numbers on their side; the herdsmen might raid and loot, but they could not stay.

24. THE FIRST MAIN GENERALIZATION OF SOCIALISM

And who can doubt the amount of mental and moral dwarfing that is going on side by side with this physical shortage?

25. The Human Side of Animals: Chapter 7 - The language of Animals

The Human Side of Animals by Royal Dixon is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.

26. THE EARTH IN SPACE AND TIME

Astronomers and geologists and those who study physics have been able to tell us something of the origin and history of the earth.

27. MONKEYS, APES AND SUB-MEN

Now the past history of the Primates is one very difficult to decipher in the geological record.

28. A PICTURE OF THE WORLD OF MEN

I seem to be a consciousness, vague and insecure, placed between two worlds.

29. Emphatic words must stand in emphatic positions

This metaphor is not recommended for imitation.

30. Computers on the Farm: Information available Online From USDA, State, and Private Sources

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31. PRIMITIVE NOMADIC PEOPLES

For settlement under the conditions of the primitive civilizations men needed a constant water supply and warmth and sunshine.

32. THE RACES OF MANKIND

It is necessary now to discuss plainly what is meant by a phrase, used often very carelessly, “The Races of Mankind.”

33. TWO ARTIFICIAL GROUPS: THE CHURCH AND THE ARMY

The most interesting example of such structures are churches—communities of believers—and armies.

34. THE SEXUAL ABERRATIONS

The sexual expression corresponding to hunger not being found colloquilly, science uses the expression "libido."

35. FREE WILL AND PREDESTINATION

I glance at this question rather to express a detachment than a view.

36. The Human Side of Animals: Chapter 13 - Animals Scavengers and Criminals

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37. The Human Side of Animals: Chapter 15 - The Future life of Animals

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38. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 15

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39. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Introduction

In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money.

40. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Discourse VI

Wisdom, again, is certainly a more comprehensive word than any other, but it has a direct relation to conduct, and to human life.

41. CHIMNEYS AND DRAFT

The makers furnish a non-drying oil for the liquid, usually a 300 degrees test refined petroleum.

42. The Human Side of Animals: Chapter 12 - Tourists and Sight-seeing

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43. The Human Side of Animals: Chapter 10 - Animals Architects, Engineers, and House Builders

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44. THE IMMIGRANT

These are all mitigations of the outlook, but still the dark shadow of disastrous possibility remains.

45. SUMERIA, EARLY EGYPT AND WRITING

About the same time, for chronology is still vague, the great history of Egypt was beginning.

46. THE DETERMINATION OF HEATING VALUES OF FUELS

The heat evolved in burning of a definite weight of standard naphthaline may also be used as a means of calibrating the calorimeter as a whole.

47. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 11 - Be Systematic

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48. AT THIS POINT A DISPUTE ARISES

Such arguments are not to be swept aside with a wave of the hand.

49. Computers on the Farm: Components of a Microcomputer

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50. How to Select Hardware - Types of Hardware

The modem turns the computer from an information processor and storage machine into a piece of communications equipment.

51. THE AGE OF REPTILES

Amidst this spreading vegetation of the lower plains the reptiles were increasing mightily in multitude and variety.

52. The eggs destined to give birth to queens

“The bees are very naughty to force the queens to kill one another until there is only one left,” commented Emile.

53. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Discourse III -Bearing Of Theology On Other Branch

It does not follow that they deny the existence of a God, because they are not found talking of it, when the topic would be utterly irrelevant.

54. THE WORLD OF FACT

Fact expresses for me something in its nature primary and unanalyzable.

55. Malthus's Opinions on Rent

Among the causes of the rise of rent, Mr. Malthus mentions, "such an increase of population as will lower the wages of labour."

56. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 13

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57. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 14

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58. The Human Side of Animals: Chapter 9 - Self-defense and Home-Government

The Human Side of Animals by Royal Dixon is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.

59. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 7

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60. THE BEING OF MANKIND

Let me point out that this is no sentimental or mystical statement. It is hard fact as any hard fact we know.

61. Of the Times of the Birth and Passion of Christ

All this time Matthew passeth over in few words, and here begins to relate the preaching and miracles of Christ.

62. PRIMITIVE THOUGHT

The sources to which scientific men have gone in their attempts to reconstruct that primitive mentality are very various.

63. BELIEFS

I draw my beliefs exactly as an artist draws lines to make a picture, to express my impression of the world and my purpose.

64. THE SPIRIT OF GAIN AND THE SPIRIT OF SERVICE

The gift for getting is the supreme gift—all others bow before it.

65. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Lecture IV - Elementary Studies

Again, compare one idea with another; adjust truths and facts; form them into one whole, or notice the obstacles which occur in doing so.

66. NEOLITHIC MAN IN EUROPE

Neolithic men came slowly into Europe from the south or south-east as the reindeer and the open steppes gave way to forest and modern European conditions.

67. Computers on the Farm

A computer can be very useful when repetitive analyses are needed or when data storage is important, as with financial records or daily milk output per cow.

68. The International Subversives.

The system had just rung all 1000 numbers at the same time. One thousand phones ringing all at once.

69. The Human Side of Animals: Chapter 6 - Animal Mathematics

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70. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Lecture III - English Catholic Literature

Every great people has a character of its own, which it manifests and perpetuates in a variety of ways.

71. THE LANGUAGES OF MANKIND

The first languages were probably small collections of such words; they consisted of interjections and nouns.

72. THE WORLD IN TIME

At last a condition of things must have been attained in which a man might have stood up on earth and looked about him and lived.

73. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Lecture VII

Its basis of operations, what it starts from, what it falls back upon, is the phenomena which meet the senses.

74. How to Select Hardware - Where to Look for Good Hardware

A reliable dealer who handles several brands can help you make this decision.

75. MOISTURE IN STEAM

Before taking any calorimeter reading, steam should be allowed to flow through the instrument freely until it is thoroughly heated.

76. The Start of the Standard Oil Company

It has placed its manufactories at the points where they could supply markets at the least expense.

77. THE RESUMPTION OF METAPHYSICAL ENQUIRY

Since then the world never effectually reopened these questions until the modern period.

78. Understanding Essays About Logic

The key to understanding the doctrine of the essays which are herewith reprinted lies in the passages regarding the temporal development of experience.

79. THE FIRST LOAN

"All right, Mr. Rockefeller, you can have it," he replied. "Just give me your own warehouse receipts; they're good enough for me."

80. THE LEAGUE MUST BE REPRESENTATIVE

Half a world peace is better than none.

81. Erotic Symbolism

We are now mainly concerned with manifestations which are more narrowly and exclusively symbolical.

82. THE FABLE OF THE CICADA AND THE ANT

“Thou art almost like unto the gods,” says he.

83. THE ART OF THINKING

Pythagoras is a dim figure, and there is no need here to insist unduly on his significance.

84. On-Line Data-Acquisition Systems in Nuclear Physics, 1969 by H. W. Fulbright et al. - Table of Links

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85. OUR CHILDREN AND GREAT DISCOVERIES

They seem like little things to talk about—our children, but little things often make up the sum of human life—that’s a good sentence.

86. A Short History of the World by H. G. Wells - Table of Links

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87. THE ANCESTRY OF MAN

Among all the apes and monkeys, the only group that have their great toes developed on anything like the same fashion as man are some of the lemurs.

88. The Human Side of Animals: Chapter 11 - Food Conservers

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89. THE THEORY OF SEXUAL INVERSION

We have to recognize the influence of professional and personal bias and the influence of environment.

90. The Backus Purchase

This is my reason for entering so much into detail in this particular case, which I am exceedingly reluctant to do, and for many years have refrained from doing

91. CHANGE OF DIET

If from generalities we descend to details, we shall see that the very species may, in many instances, be determined from the nature of its victuals.

92. THE WAY TO CONCRETE REALIZATION

Fantastic as they are, they have played a large part in reducing the Hague Tribunal to an ineffective squeak amidst the thunders of this war.

93. WRITING

The door is not half open; the light is but a light new lit. Our world to-day is only in the beginning of knowledge.

94. BRIEF HISTORY OF WATER-TUBE BOILERS

The first boiler made of a combination of small tubes, connected at one end to a reservoir, was the invention of another American, John Stevens, in 1804.

95. On-Line Data-Acquisition Systems in Nuclear Physics, 1969: Chapter 1 - THE TASKS

We first list the main uses to which on-line computer systems have been put. We start with the simple operations, which we call Class 1.

96. Of the vision of the four Beasts

I beheld, saith Daniel, till the Beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flames.

97. SEA PEOPLES AND TRADING PEOPLES

No doubt he ventured at first as a fisherman, having learnt the elements of seacraft in creeks and lagoons.

98. THE MODERN STEAM-ENGINE

“Those projects which abridge distance have done most for the civilization and happiness of our species.”—Macaulay.

99. Anticipations by H. G. Wells - Table of Links

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100. EFFICIENCY AND CAPACITY OF BOILERS

The duration in such cases may be reduced, and the “flying” method of starting and stopping employed.

101. SYMBOLISM OF THE MOTHER AND OF REBIRTH

“I am the creator of Nun, who has taken his place in the underworld. My nest is not seen and my egg is not broken.”

102. THE PULLEY-BLOCK

It is useless to speculate on the extinct race by whom this work was achieved, or on the means they employed.

103. Tithes

Tithes are a tax on the gross produce of the land, and, like taxes on raw produce, fall wholly on the consumer.

104. THE BEGINNINGS OF CULTIVATION

The pre-human age is called the “Older Palæolithic;” the age of true men using unpolished stones in the “Newer Palæolithic.

105. WAR

No one has a use now for such superannuated things.

106. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Duties Of The Church Towards Knowledge

As to Physical Science, of course there can be no real collision between it and Catholicism.

107. Taxes on Houses

A tax on the rent of houses may either fall on the occupier, on the ground landlord, or on the building landlord.

108. Knowledge by Acquaintance vs Knowledge by Description

In this chapter we shall be concerned exclusively with knowledge of things, of which in turn we shall have to distinguish two kinds.

109. The Steam-Engine Applied to Ship-Propulsion

The account seems somewhat apocryphal, and it certainly led to no useful results.

110. On the influence of Demand and Supply on Prices

This is true of monopolized commodities, and indeed of the market price of all other commodities for a limited period.

111. Random Reminiscences of Men and Events by John D. Rockefeller - Table of Links

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112. Recollections of My Life: Part 3

A period when I had part in a small computer businesss

113. "THE WHITE MAN'S BURTHEN"

The ghosts of the thirst-tormented Hereros rise up in their thousands from the African dust, protesting.

114. What a Computer Can Do for You - Process Controllers

Besides analyzing farm management problems and storing data, computers have another key use—as process controllers.

115. Computers on the Farm: Try it Out

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116. Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879, by Various - Table of Links

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117. THE LATER POSTGLACIAL PALÆOLITHIC MEN, THE FIRST TRUE MEN

Now here again, with every desire to be plain and explicit with the reader, we have still to trouble him with qualified statements and notes of interrogation.

118. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Lecture VIII

We count it a great thing, and justly so, to plan and carry out a wide political organization.

119. On-Line Data-Acquisition Systems in Nuclear Physics, 1969: A MEDIUM-SIZED ON-LINE COMPUTER SYSTEM

The memory has a multibus structure which permits each bus to communicate simultaneously with a separate memory module.

120. Taxes on Other Commodities than Raw Produce

The real expense is the twenty millions, and not the interest which must be paid for it.

121. Modesty, which may be provisionally defined as an almost instinctive fear

The immense importance of feminine modesty in creating masculine passion must be fairly obvious

122. ON THE ELEVATION OF THE WESTERN COAST OF SOUTH AMERICA

The evidence of recent elevation is here more satisfactory.

123. Table of Links - Cottage Economy to Which Is Added the Poor Man's Friend

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124. Strategies for Getting Into Computers

One way is to first buy the basic hardware and components you think you need, and then add memory and other components later

126. Employing a Competitor

In giving such an order he was exposed, of course, to the risk of paying very high prices.

127. The Question of Rebates

The Standard gave advantages to the railroads for the purpose of reducing the cost of transportation of freight.

128. INTEREST AT 10 PER CENT

These experiences with my father remind me that in the early days there was often much discussion as to what should be paid for the use of money.

129. Doctrine of Adam Smith Concerning the Rent of Land

The produce does not pay the expense.

130. THE CICADA: THE TRANSFORMATION

There is no conciser recipe in the whole of La Cuisinière bourgeoise.

131. US Online Services For Farmers

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132. HISTORY OF ALCHYMY FROM THE EARLIEST PERIODS TO THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY

The history of the delusion appears, in a manner, lost from this time till the eighth century, when it appeared amongst the Arabians.

133. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Discourse I

The past never returns; the course of events, old in its texture, is ever new in its colouring and fashion

134. Experimental Mechanics by Robert S. Ball - Table of Links

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135. The Limitations of the Rich

The novelty of being able to purchase anything one wants soon passes, because what people most seek cannot be bought with money.

136. THE NEED OF A NEW MAP OF EUROPE

That is why I think we liberal English should draw our new map of Europe now, first of all on paper and then upon the face of the earth.

137. THE AGE OF THE COAL SWAMPS

Plants no doubt preceded animal forms in this invasion of the land, but the animals probably followed up the plant emigration very closely.

138. THE STRENGTH OF A BEAM

Beams of iron, when large, are usually not rectangular, as the material can be more effectively disposed in sections of a different form.

139. On Wages

The natural price of labour, therefore, depends on the price of the food, necessaries, and conveniences required for the support of the labourer and his family.

140. The Benevolent Trusts

I confess I felt most strongly on the subject, and I feel so now.

141. Taxes Paid by the Producer

Eleven hundred pounds payable at the end of one year, when money is at 10 per cent. interest, is of no more value than 1000l. to be paid immediately.

142. The Erotic Symbols

Among children, both boys and girls, it is common to find that the copulation of animals is a mysteriously fascinating spectacle.

143. On-Line Data-Acquisition Systems in Nuclear Physics, 1969: Chapter 2 - A PROCESS-CONTROL SYSTEM

It can also perform most of the calculations necessary for real-time guidance of the course of the experiments.

144. FLOW OF STEAM THROUGH PIPES AND ORIFICES

Napier deduced an approximate formula for the outflow of steam into the atmosphere which checks closely with the figures just given.

145. On Taxes

Capital may therefore be increased by an increased production, or by a diminished consumption.

146. THE COMPOUND PENDULUM AND THE COMPOSITION OF VIBRATIONS

Any body rotating about an axis may be made to oscillate by gravity.

147. The Foundations of Geometry, by David Hilbert - Table of Links

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148. THE WOUNDED SOLDIER

This is art and fine and beautiful, and only a master can compass it; but a machine could tell the other story.

149. THE SYNTHETIC MOTIVE

Different people, of differing temperament and tradition, have sought oneness, this steadying and universalizing thing, in various manners.

150. Character the Essential Thing

Late in 1871, we began the purchase of some of the more important of the refinery interests of Cleveland.

151. An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells - Table of Links

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152. BOILER ROOM PIPING

All surfaces should be painted before the covering is applied. Canvas is ordinarily placed over the covering, held in place by wrought-iron or brass bands.

153. The New Opportunities

The great economic era we are entering will give splendid opportunity to the young man of the future.

154. Taxes on Profits

Taxes on those commodities, which are generally denominated luxuries, fall on those only who make use of them.

155. Land-Tax

In no respect would such a tax differ from a tax on rent.

156. OF PERSONAL IMMORTALITY

Let me shift my ground a little and ask you to consider what is involved in the opposite belief.

157. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Discourse II - Theology A Branch Of Knowledge.

The word “God” is a Theology in itself, indivisibly one, inexhaustibly various, from the vastness and the simplicity of its meaning.

158. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 10

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159. SOCIALISM

Socialism for me is a common step we are all taking in the great synthesis of human purpose.

160. Section I.—James Watt and his Inventions

At the age of eighteen, Watt was sent to Glasgow, there to reside with his mother’s relatives, and to learn the trade of a mathematical-instrument maker.

161. ADMINISTRATIVE SOCIALISM

Systematic expropriation of private owners by death-duties and increased taxation.

162. The Ore Mines

We had great faith in these mines, but to work them the railroad was necessary.

163. Information available From Your County Extension Agent

The county Extension staff can tell you what is available online in your area that is tailored to your kind of farming and your region.

164. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 6

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165. David A. Woodward, Baltimore, Md. Letters Patent No. 16,700, dated February 24, 1857

The Scientific American will be delivered in every part of the city at $3.50 a year.

166. THE FUNDAMENTAL IDEA OF SOCIALISM

He wants a complete organization for all those human affairs that are of collective importance.

167. Selling to the Steel Company

The work went on uninterruptedly and prosperously until the formation of the United States Steel Corporation.

168. The Difficult Art of Giving

I am sure it is a mistake to assume that the possession of money in great abundance necessarily brings happiness.

169. The death of Henri IV led to new conflicts

The Reformers soon recovered from this defeat and death, joined all their forces into one body, and placed Roland at their head in the place of Laporte.

170. ON USING THE NAME OF GOD

Yet let me confess that I am greatly attracted by such fine phrases as the Will of God, the Hand of God, the Great Commander.

171. New Worlds For Old: A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by H. G. Wells - Table of Links

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172. THE LIBERAL FEAR OF RUSSIA

Defeat, or even a partial victory for the Allies, means nothing less than that.

173. Building the Ships

All the conferences, as I said before, were carried on by Mr. Gates, who seemed to enjoy work, and he has had abundant privileges in that direction.

174. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE MIND AND LANGUAGE

The newborn child is at first no more than an animal.

175. THE MODERN CORPORATION

Beyond question there is a suspicion of corporations.

176. EVOLUTION OF THE BABCOCK & WILCOX WATER-TUBE BOILER

This construction was the result of the demands of certain Continental laws that are coming into general vogue in this country.

177. Bounties on Exportation, and Prohibitions of Importation

A bounty on the exportation of corn tends to lower its price to the foreign consumer, but it has no permanent effect on its price in the home market.

178. THE OUTLOOK FOR THE GERMANS

I will do no more than I must to injure Germany further, and I will do all that I can to restore the unity of mankind.

179. On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation by David Ricardo - Table of Links

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180. Auto-erotism may be said to include those transformations of repressed sexual activity

The typical form of auto-erotism is the occurrence of the sexual orgasm during sleep.

181. THE MECHANICAL PRINCIPLES OF A CLOCK

For accurate time-keeping it is therefore essential that the time of vibration shall remain constant.

182. On Natural and Market Place

In the 7th chap. of the Wealth of Nations, all that concerns this question is most ably treated.

183. THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE LIBIDO. A POSSIBLE SOURCE OF PRIMITIVE HUMAN DISCOVERIES

“And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame.”

184. The Best Philanthropy

No mere money-giving is comparable to this in its lasting and beneficial results.

185. An Interview with My Father At The End of the World

Never in my life had I seen my father cry. It was like finding out that super heroes could bleed.

186. Of the relation which the Prophecy of John hath to those of Daniel

The woman therefore began now to fly into the wilderness.

187. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated by John Henry Newman - Table of Links

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188. The greatest figure in ancient astronomy

Ptolemy commences with laying down the undoubted truth that the shape of the earth is globular.

189. How to Choose a Microcomputer System

Many computer experts strongly recommend against buying a computer first and then shopping for the software packages.

190. Effects of Accumulation on Profits and Interest

Productions are always bought by productions, money is only the medium by which the exchange is effected.

191. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Lecture X

For she is ever the same,—ever young and vigorous, and ever overcoming new errors with the old weapons.

192. The Salvaging of Civilization by H. G. Wells - Table of Links

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193. On-Line Data-Acquisition Systems in Nuclear Physics, 1969: Chapter 2 - DATA-ACQUISITION SYSTEMS

The movement toward computer systems began in earnest about 1962.

194. CONCERNING MR. MAXIMILIAN CRAFT

We are, I believe, assisting at the end of a vast, intolerable oppression upon civilisation.

195. On-Line Data-Acquisition Systems in Nuclear Physics, 1969: A LARGE SYSTEM BASED ON A SINGLE COMPUTER

Since early 1966, Yale and IBM Research have been engaged in a joint study in the application of computers to nuclear-data acquisition.

196. THE AGE OF MAMMALS

The Pliocene was a temperate time, and many of the warmth-loving plants and animals had gone.

197. Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells - Table of Links

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198. On Gross and Net Revenge

Adam Smith constantly magnifies the advantages which a country derives from a large gross, rather than a large net income.

199. More About Computers on the Farm

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200. What is Coming? by H. G. Wells - Table of Links

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201. The Reason for Conditional Gifts

It is highly important that every charitable institution shall have at all times the largest possible number of current contributors.

202. THE VALUE OF FRIENDSHIPS

"I may want to call upon you for the use of some money. I don't know that we shall need it, but I thought I'd speak to you in advance about it."

203. An Added Note as to the "Practical"

Nothing is said about the nature of the consequences; they may be aesthetic, or moral, or political, or religious in quality—anything you please.

204. On Sudden Changes in the Channels of Trade

To sustain life, food is necessary, and the demand for food must continue in all ages, and in all countries.

205. Mark Twain's Speeches by Mark Twain - Table of Links

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206. THE MYSTIC ELEMENT

To the mystery of Power and Beauty, out of the earth that mothered us, we move.

207. This Misery of Boots by H. G. Wells - Table of Links

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208. THE PSYCHIC STATE IN PREGNANCY

There is some interest in noting the signs of loss of virginity chiefly relied upon by ancient authors.

209. On the Comparative Value of Gold, Corn, and Labour, in Rich and in Poor Countries

Spain and Portugal, the countries which possess the mines, are, after Poland, perhaps, the two most beggarly countries in Europe.

210. God The Invisible King by H. G. Wells - Table of Links

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211. A Landsman for Ship Manager

The great ships and the railroad put us in possession of the most favourable facilities.

212. On Rent

In order to understand this part of the subject, we must inquire into the nature of rent, and the laws by which its rise or fall is regulated.

213. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 4 - Persevere

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214. SEXUAL INVERSION IN WOMEN

It is, no doubt, not difficult to account for this retardation in the investigation of sexual inversion in women.

215. CONSTRUCTIVE SOCIALISM

One has to recognize that this mind is at present a mind in a state of confusion, full of warring suggestions and warring impulses.

216. NORTHERN CHILE. CONCLUSION

The relations of these species have been given under the head of Coquimbo.

217. BRICKWORK BOILER SETTINGS

After the walls have become thoroughly heated, coal may be fired and the boiler placed in service.

218. CHINESE WOMEN'S FEET

The foot is so squeezed upward that, in walking, only the ball of the great toe touches the ground.

219. Why the Standard Pays Large Dividends

The capital stock could be raised several hundred per cent. without a penny of over-capitalization or "water"; the actual value is there.

220. The Future in America by H. G. Wells - Table of Links

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221. On-Line Data-Acquisition Systems in Nuclear Physics, 1969: A SMALL TIME-SHARED DATA-ACQUISITION

The basic use of these systems is pulse-height analysis.

222. NEGATIVE TERMS

Let me try and express how in my mind this matter of negative terms has shaped itself.

223. SOCIALISM MEANS REVOLUTION

I want to change everything in the world that made that; and I do not greatly care what has to go in the process. Do you?

224. STICKING TO BUSINESS PRINCIPLES

"My son, I find I have got to have that money."

225. On-Line Data-Acquisition Systems in Nuclear Physics, 1969: Chapter 2 - A SMALL SYSTEM BASED ON A PDP

The disk is a Data Disc unit with a removable disk (128 tracks and a movable head) on the same shaft as a smaller disk and three fixed data heads.

226. Disinterested Service the Road to Success

The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.

227. ANALYSIS OF FLUE GASES

The ratio based on combustible will be greater than the ratio based on fuel if there is unconsumed carbon in the ash.

228. THE AGE OF FISHES

This question of Organic Evolution, like the question of the age of the earth, has in the past been the subject of much bitter controversy.

229. MATERIAL PROGRESS

Between the sparse great stars were deep blue spaces, unfathomed distances.

230. Some Old Friends

The men who have been very successful are correspondingly conservative, since they have much to lose in case of disaster.

231. How to Select Hardware - Checklist for Evaluating Hardware

Some agricultural programs use 48K or 64K of memory.

232. It is Not Always Possible to Remember Just How One First Met an old Friend

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233. On-Line Data-Acquisition Systems in Nuclear Physics, 1969: RELATIONSHIP TO A REMOTE COMPUTING CENTER

The typical university computing center is our model for such a facility.

234. 581 Stories To Learn About Non Fiction

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235. The Life of the Weevil by Jean-Henri Fabre - Table of Links

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236. On Currency and Banks

It is not my intention to detain the reader by any long dissertation on the subject of money.

237. SCEPTICISM OF THE INSTRUMENT

The world of fact is not what it appears to be.

238. NAÏVE REALISM VS. PRESENTATIVE REALISM

The idealists attribute to the realists the doctrine that "the perceived object is the real object."

239. A Normal Growth

Dock property was secured at low prices and made valuable by buildings and development.

240. THE FIRST BIRDS AND THE FIRST MAMMALS

The very earliest birds seem to have been seabirds living upon fish, and their fore limbs were not wings but paddles rather after the penguin type.

241. Poor Rates

The rate might equal or exceed the rent; but whether it did or not, no part of this rate would be paid by the landlord.

242. Nursing the Commercially Ill

Before these matters were entirely closed up we had a vast amount of experience in the doctoring of the commercially ill.

243. THE GREEKS AND THE PERSIANS

In the rear of the Greeks proper came the kindred Macedonians and Thracians; on their left wing, the Phrygians crossed by the Bosphorus into Asia Minor.

244. PEOPLE WHOSE BOOTS DON’T HURT THEM

Everybody does not suffer misery from boots.

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246. SUMMARY

Most minds, it seems to me, are similar, but none are absolutely alike in character or in contents.

247. Other Business Experiences and Business Principles

I was a minority stockholder in all these enterprises, and had no part in their management. Not all of them were profitable.

248. On-Line Data-Acquisition Systems in Nuclear Physics, 1969: SYSTEMS ON-LINE WITH COMPUTING CENTERS

Two systems were clearly stated to be in successful on-line operation with external computing centers.

249. First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life by H. G. Wells - Table of Links

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250. THE JOY OF ACHIEVEMENT

The part played by one of my earliest partners, Mr. H.M. Flagler, was always an inspiration to me.

251. On Value

Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.

252. PRACTICAL CONCLUSIONS FROM THESE CONSIDERATIONS

The man trained solely in science falls easily into a superstitious attitude; he is overdone with classification.

253. THE STUDY AND PROPAGANDA OF DEMOCRACY

All round the world there is this same obscuration of the real intelligence of men.

254. Essays in Experimental Logic by John Dewey - Table of Links

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255. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 1

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256. THE BATTLE FOR DELIVERANCE FROM THE MOTHER

“Like as the arrows in the hands of the giant; even so are the young children.”

257. THE COST OF LIGHT

In fact, it is easy to show in some cases that artificial lighting is cheaper than natural lighting.

258. On Foreign Trade

They who hold this argument agree with me, that the profits of different employments have a tendency to conform to one another; to advance and recede together.

259. THE ANTHRAX FLY

In the case of the Anthrax-grub there is none of this mangling, none of this persistent clinging to the original wound.

260. His life is all an art

“Man is the measure of all things, of those which exist and of those which have no existence.”

261. ON THE ELEVATION OF THE EASTERN COAST OF SOUTH AMERICA

Southward of Bahia Blanca, the river Colorado flows between two plains, apparently from thirty to forty feet in height.

262. H.G. Wells' Thoughts on America's Treatment of African Americans

No, I can't help idealizing the dark submissive figure of the negro in this spectacle of America.

263. THE COCK AND THE HEN

“A short digression on the digestive organs of birds,” replied Uncle Paul, “will give you the information you ask for.

264. NATURAL SELECTION AND THE CHANGES OF SPECIES

m all things whatever that are without life in certain general aspects.

265. The Appeals that Come

"I don't give to such and such a board, because I have read that of the money given only half or less actually gets to the person needing help."

266. On Bounties on Production

But how would the interest of the landlord be affected?

267. The Problem of Philosophy, by Bertrand Russell - Table Of Links

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268. THE REALITIES AND IMAGINATIONS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

We have given these particulars of the advance in man’s knowledge of the metallurgy of steel and its results by way of illustration.

269. The Difficult Art of Getting

Naturally, people of modest means lead a closer family life than those who have plenty of servants to do everything for them.

270. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Lecture I

The great poet remained unknown for some centuries,—that is, unknown to what we call fame.

271. SOME ARGUMENTS AD HOMINEM

After the revenue in the domestic budget under Socialism one must consider the expenditure.

272. THE NEW MAP OF EUROPE

Now the nineteenth century phrased this conception by talking about the "principle of nationality."

273. On-Line Data-Acquisition Systems in Nuclear Physics, 1969: Chapter 2 - MULTIPLE-COMPUTER SYSTEMS

At the Rutgers-Bell (RB) nuclear physics laboratory, work has been done with two different two-CPU systems.

274. CLASSIFICATION OF FUELS

Gas-house coke is generally softer and more porous than oven coke, ignites more readily, and requires less draft for its combustion.

275. THE NEW EDUCATION

The exact sciences lead to the administrative work of industrialism, and to general economics.

276. Computers on the Farm: Computers Need an Investment in Time and Money

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277. THE DUAL MOTHER RÔLE

“Whoever in dreams surrounds his body with bast, creepers or ropes, with snake-skins, threads, or tissues, dies.”

278. Of the Mahuzzims, honoured by the King who doth according to his will

Thus shall he do in the most strong holds or temples;—and he shall cause them to rule over many, and divide the land among them for a possession.

279. BREWING BEER

With regard to hops, the quality is very various.

280. THE SYNTHESIS

I write this down. It is the form of my belief, and that unanalyzable something called Beauty is the light that falls upon that form.

281. What Pragmatism Means by Practical

The traditional notion is that of a "seeing force that runs things."

282. Recollections of My Life: Part 1

A biography of sorts, describing my life as a geek nerd.

283. BOOKS AND BURGLARS

Noiseless as they may be while at work, however, the effect of their visitation is to murder sleep later on.

284. SEXUAL MORALITY

A man who marries for money or for ambition is departing from the biological and moral ends of marriage.

285. Roman Catholic Charities

It is unnecessary to dwell upon the centuries of experience which the Church of Rome has gone through to perfect a great power of organization.

286. Some Experiences in the Oil Business

"I'll go no higher, John; the business is yours."

287. What a Computer Can Do for You - Telecommunications

With the computer hooked up to the telephone, you can get information quickly, receive it visually, and record it in detail if you wish.

288. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 2

The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money by P.T Barnum

289. Taxes on Gold

Taxes on gold are of two kinds, one on the actual quantity of gold in circulation, the other on the quantity that is annually produced from the mines.

290. THE BABCOCK & WILCOX BOILER

In wide boilers additional cleaning doors are supplied at the top of the setting to insure ease in reaching all portions of the heating surface.

291. Follow the Laws of Trade

The underlying, essential element of success in business affairs is to follow the established laws of high-class dealing.

292. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 9

The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money by P.T Barnum

293. HOW FAR WILL EUROPE GO TOWARD SOCIALISM?

"Go as you please" has had its death-blow.

294. In the matter of courage we all have our limits

If I attempt to talk across a room I find myself turning this way and that, and thus at alternate periods I have part of the audience behind me.

295. THE EPEIRA’S BRIDGE

“If I did not already know,” said Claire, “since you have just told us, that the spider does accomplish it, I should say that its bridge is impossible.”

296. THE UNITED STATES, FRANCE, BRITAIN, AND RUSSIA

The mind plunges hopelessly through that tangle to the elements of a speech which is as yet unknown.

297. The Mason-Wasps by Jean-Henri Fabre - Table of Links

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298. THE ALPHABET AND SIMPLIFIED SPELLING

Torquemada was nothing to Mr. Carnegie.

299. CERCERIS TUBERCULATA

The last fortnight in September is the time when our Hymenopteron makes its burrows, and buries in the depths the prey destined for its brood.

300. The Dance of Life by Havelock Ellis - Table of Links

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301. THE LABOUR VIEW OF MIDDLE AFRICA

What are these broad essentials? What are the ends that must be achieved if Africa is not to continue a festering sore in the body of mankind?

302. More Hunting Wasps by Jean-Henri Fabre - Table of Links

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303. WOULD MODERN SOCIALISM ABOLISH ALL PROPERTY?

The word “property,” one must remember, is a slightly evasive word.

304. CULTURE

Boston is now producing no literature except a little criticism.

305. PRIMITIVE LIGHT-SOURCES

The act of imprisoning a glowing insect was in itself no greater stride along the highway of progress than the act of picking a tasty fruit from its tree.

306. THE MOVEMENTS AND HABITS OF PLANTS

Under a practical point of view, agriculturists and horticulturists may learn something from the conclusions at which we have arrived.

307. The Mason-Bees by Jean-Henri Fabre - Table of Links

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308. ANALYSIS OF THE SEXUAL IMPULSE

The term "sexual instinct" may be said to cover the whole of the neuropsychic phenomena of reproduction which man shares with the lower animals.

309. CONCERNING THE TWO KINDS OF THINKING

“Thus the myth is a sustained, still remaining fragment from the infantile soul-life of the people, and the dream is the myth of the individual.”

310. Underground: Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier - Table of Links

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311. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Discourse V - Knowledge Its Own End

Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another; good sense is not conscience, refinement is not humility, nor is largeness and justness of view faith.

312. Defence of Mountains

A single hill is not a mountain system, and has not the same disadvantages.

313. SCHOOLING

The modern school is not a thing that has evolved from a simple germ, by a mere process of expansion.

314. The Holy Grail.

In 1989, the white hats, as hackers called the professional security gurus, were highly paranoid about Zardoz getting into the wrong hands.

315. On the rent of mines.

By the discovery of America and the rich mines in which it abounds, a very great effect was produced on the natural price of the precious metals.

316. War as an Instrument of Policy

Thus the contradictions in which man, naturally timid, becomes involved by war, may be solved, if we choose to accept this as a solution.

317. PLANES AND DIALECTS OF THOUGHT

Let me endeavour to make myself a little less obscure by a flagrant instance from physical things.

318. On-Line Data-Acquisition Systems in Nuclear Physics, 1969: Chapter 3 - PROCESS-CONTROL APPLICATION

Tables 12 and 13 give a summary of present and anticipated process-control applications disclosed by the survey.

319. On-Line Data-Acquisition Systems in Nuclear Physics, 1969: Chapter 1 - MATCHING COMPUTERS TO TASKS

We start with the large computer system. All classes of jobs can be handled by this powerful system.

320. Obvious And Very Important Things Computers Can Do For Farmers

Determine the most economical feed ration for dairy cows and other farm animals.

321. THE PELOPÆUS

Cases of this kind occur too seldom to satisfy fully the curiosity of a seasoned observer.

322. MY PRIMARY ACT OF FAITH

I dismiss the idea that life is chaotic because it leaves my life ineffectual, and I cannot contemplate an ineffectual life patiently.

323. On Profits

The whole value of their commodities is divided into two portions only: one constitutes the profits of stock, the other the wages of labour.

324. Taxes on Wages

A tax on wages is wholly a tax on profits, a tax on necessaries is partly a tax on profits, and partly a tax on rich consumers.

325. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Note on Page 478

I think it worthwhile, in illustration of what I have said above at the page specified, to append the following passage from Grandorgæus's catalogue of Muratori

326. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Advertisement

The present collection of Lectures and Essays, written by him while Rector of the Catholic University of Ireland, is certainly not an exception to this remark.

327. INDIVIDUALITY AN INTERLUDE

I do not know whether the average age of the parent at the birth of a child under modern conditions can be determined from existing figures.

328. THE LAWS OF VARIABILITY WITH RESPECT TO ANIMALS AND PLANTS

I shall in this volume treat, as fully as my materials permit, the whole subject of variation under domestication.

329. THE MIDDLE-CLASS MAN, THE BUSINESS MAN, AND SOCIALISM

Socialism is not the coming of chaos and repudiation, it is the coming of order and justice.

330. INTRODUCTION

To the Labouring Classes of this Kingdom.

331. Anthrax — The Outsider.

It wasn't like Anthrax screaming at his father until his voice turned to a whisper, all for nothing.

332. THE NECESSITY FOR METAPHYSICS

This persuasion is a very important thing in my mind.

333. PREFACE

In those days, moreover, we said this is the “war to end war,” and we still did not know clearly how.

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335. The American Connection.

`I'm on my way over to pick you up and take you to a lawyer's office where you can get some sort of protection.'

336. MUHAMMAD AND ISLAM

They created a religion that is still to this day one of the most vital forces in the world.

337. Making Bread - (continued)

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338. The Prisoner's Dilemma.

His new interest is music. He plays electric guitar in an amateur band.

339. SCIENCE AND RELIGION AT ALEXANDRIA

Side by side with the Museum, Ptolemy I created a more enduring monument to himself in the great library.

340. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Lecture IX

We must carefully distinguish, Gentlemen, between the mere diversion of the mind and its real education.

341. SEXUAL INVERSION IN MEN

Public distinction by no means necessarily implies any fine degree of private morality.

342. MENTAL POWERS OF MAN AND THE LOWER ANIMALS COMPARED

The savage and the dog have often found water at a low level, and the coincidence under such circumstances has become associated in their minds.

343. IS SOCIALISM POSSIBLE?

I don’t think the “human nature” argument against the possibility of Socialism will hold water.

344. THE ECONOMIC PROCESS

So in its broad features, as a conflict between the birth strength of a splendid civilization and a hampering commercialism, I see America.

345. MAKING BREAD

I will now come to a comparative view, more immediately applicable to a labourer’s family.

346. The Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies

Let us think of the mutual action between a magnet and a conductor.

347. EUROPEAN AGGRESSION IN ASIA AND THE RISE OF JAPAN

We cannot tell here in any detail of Japan’s war with China in 1894-95. It demonstrated the extent of her Westernization.

348. THE PROBLEM OF MOTIVES THE REAL PROBLEM OF LIFE

I confess I find myself a confusion of motives beside which my confusion of perceptions pales into insignificance.

349. The Management of Capital

In the early days the risks of the business were great, and if the stock had been dealt in on the Exchange its fluctuations would no doubt have been violent.

350. The Life of the Spider by Jean-Henri Fabre - Table of Links

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351. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 by Havelock Ellis - Table of Links

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352. DEMOCRACY

And to begin with I must have a quarrel with the word itself.

353. THE OPPORTUNITY OF LIBERALISM

The opportunity of Liberalism has come at last, an overwhelming opportunity.

354. Taxes on raw produce

A tax on raw produce would not be paid by the landlord; it would not be paid by the farmer; but it would be paid, in an increased price, by the consumer.

355. ADVANTAGES OF THE BABCOCK & WILCOX BOILER

Such deposits are difficult to remove and if corrosion goes on beneath such a covering the sheet may crack and an explosion result.

356. CHRISTENDOM AND THE CRUSADES

It is necessary that the reader should have a definite idea of the social condition of western Europe in the eighth century.

357. THE RECENT STRUGGLE FOR PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION IN GREAT BRITAIN

British political life resists cleansing with all the vigour of a dirty little boy.

358. Unearthing the Secrets of Matter

Physical science, more or less unconsciously, has drifted into the view that all natural phenomena ought to be reduced to motions.

359. Computers on the Farm: Glossary of Computer Terms

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360. How to Select Software - Compatibility Counts

Not all hardware and software are compatible.

361. ARGUMENTS VERSUS CAPITAL

"You say that we do not need to spend this money?"

362. SEXUAL EDUCATION

These games do not necessarily involve the coöperation of the sexual impulse, and still less have they any element of love.

363. WOULD SOCIALISM DESTROY THE HOME?

Consider all that amount of pent-up, thwarted or perverted emotional possibility, the sheer irrational waste of life implied….

364. RAISING CHURCH FUNDS

The begging experiences I had at that time were full of interest.

365. THE SACRED BEETLE

The Hydrophilus and her hideous larva, those pirates of the ponds, darted amongst them, wringing a neck or two as they passed.

366. DELICATE INSTRUMENTS

An instrument which will cut a blood corpuscle into several parts—that's the Microtome, the "small-cutter," as the name implies.

367. THE WORLD IN SPACE

The earth, as everybody knows nowadays, is a spheroid, a sphere slightly compressed, orange fashion, with a diameter of nearly 8,000 miles.

368. Taxes on Rent

A tax on rent would affect rent only; it would fall wholly on landlords, and could not be shifted to any class of consumers.

369. THE TULIPOMANIA

In England, in our day, strange as it may appear, a tulip will produce more money than an oak.

370. The whole problem of love and pain

For these reasons the connection between love and pain may be more clearly brought out in connection with whipping than with blood.

371. A NIMBLE BORROWER

I rounded up all of our banks in the city, and made a second journey to get the money, and kept going until I secured the necessary amount.

372. The Corner Pub.

Australia's early hackers had it easy, until Michael Rosenberg arrived.

373. Exploring the Limits of Philosophical Knowledge

Philosophers claim to prove religious dogmas, universe's rationality, illusion of matter, and unreality of evil through metaphysical reasoning.

374. The Claim of Higher Education

The mere fact that most of the great achievements in science, medicine, art, and literature are the flower of the higher education is sufficient.

375. On-Line Data-Acquisition Systems in Nuclear Physics, 1969: ON CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF COMPUTERS

In general the more words that a system can retain the better; but the greater the memory, the greater the expense.

376. The Hunting Wasps by Jean-Henri Fabre - Table of Links

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377. INTRODUCTION

Recently I set myself to put down what I believe.

378. ON THE OLDER TERTIARY FORMATIONS OF PATAGONIA AND CHILE

The cliffs to the south of the river are about two hundred feet in height, and are composed of sandstone of various tints and degrees of hardness.

379. THE PART PLAYED BY WORMS IN THE HISTORY OF THIS PLANET

Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than most persons would at first suppose.

380. THE NECESSARY POWERS OF THE LEAGUE

No man can join a partnership and remain an absolutely free man.

381. THE MIND OF A MODERN STATE

You see, my hero in the confused drama of human life is intelligence; intelligence inspired by constructive passion.

382. EARLY GAS-LIGHTING

The epochal feature of the development of gas-lighting is that here was a possibility for the first time of providing lighting as a public utility.

383. Section II.—The Contemporaries of James Watt

William Murdoch was one of the men to whom Watt, no less than the world, was greatly indebted.

384. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Lecture II

The ideas and conceptions are so great and lofty in their own nature that they necessarily appear magnificent in the most artless dress.

385. THE INFANTILE SEXUALITY

We may say that without infantile amnesia there would be no hysterical amnesia.

386. THEORY OF THE FORMATION OF THE DIFFERENT CLASSES OF CORAL-REEFS

No theory worthy of notice has been advanced to account for those barrier-reefs, which encircle islands of moderate dimensions.

387. THE SEA

“The sea is larger than the earth, the geography says,” remarked Jules.

388. The Fugitive.

Par hung out with a Morty and a bunch of his friends, drinking and goofing around on Morty's computer.

389. THE MAN-MAKING FORCES OF THE MODERN STATE

The average citizen of our great state to-day is, I would respectfully submit, scarcely more than a dirty clout about his own buried talents.

390. The Logical of Judgments of Practice

Idealism in action does not seem to be anything except an explicit recognition of just the implications we have been considering.

391. THE INVASION OF THE DRY LAND BY LIFE

No creature can breathe, no creature can digest its food, without water.

392. LIGHT AND HEALTH

The Röntgen rays were discovered by Röntgen in 1896 and they have been studied and applied very widely ever since.

393. Of the Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks

The grounds of the Chronology here followed, I will now set down as briefly as I can.

394. OF LOVE AND JUSTICE

“Justice,” she asserts, “is an instinctive craving very nearly akin to the physical craving for equilibrium. Its social importance corresponds.

395. Of the power of the eleventh horn of Daniel's fourth Beast, to change times and laws

Zosimus universis Episcopis per Gallias & septem Provincias constitutis.

396. THE END OF THE WAR

The prophet who emerges with the most honour from this war is Bloch.

397. THE RENASCENCE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION

Our history is now approaching our own times, and our study becomes more and more a study of the existing state of affairs.

398. EVIDENCE OF THE DESCENT OF MAN FROM SOME LOWER FORM

I have stated in the first chapter that at whatever age a variation first appears in the parent, it tends to reappear at a corresponding age in the offspring.

399. NATURAL SELECTION: OR, THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST

The undulations of the ether and even its existence are hypothetical, yet every one now admits the undulatory theory of light.

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401. THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES AND THE PROPHETS

All the books that constitute the Old Testament were certainly in existence, and in very much their present form, at latest by the year 100 B.C.

402. THE SONG OF THE MOTH

“The sun ruling both horizons, triumphant in the horizon in his name; the glittering splendor which is in the sun’s disc.”

403. THE LOGIC OF DREAMS

In dreams we are always reasoning.

404. THE CEREMONIAL USE OF LIGHT

Light was considered such a blessing that lamps were buried with the dead in order that spirits should be able to have it in the next world.

405. NATIONS IN LIQUIDATION

Now, as a matter of fact, money is a power only in so far as people believe in it and Governments sustain it.

406. COMMON SENSE AND THE BALKAN STATES

The Balkan States never have been a problem, they have only been a part of a problem.

407. ECONOMY OF ENERGY

When free to choose, the Osmia settles by preference in the small reeds.

408. THE ELECTRIC ARCS

This he described as "a most brilliant flame, of from half an inch to one and a quarter inches in length."

409. ON THE DISTRIBUTION AND GROWTH OF CORAL-REEFS

The entire absence of coral-reefs in certain large areas within the tropical seas, is a remarkable fact.

But how does this fit into the childless, disunited, and probably shifting ménage of our second picture?

411. THE EMANCIPATION OF WOMEN IN RELATION TO ROMANTIC LOVE

For the ordinary classic mind, Greek or Roman, marriage was intended for the end of building up the family, and the family was consecrated to the State.

412. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF ORGANIC BEINGS

Living birds can hardly fail to be highly effective agents in the transportation of seeds.

413. LOGIC STATIC AND LIFE KINETIC

The current syllogistic logic rests on the assumption that either A is B or it is not B.

414. THE RECORD OF THE ROCKS

Not only is Space from the point of view of life and humanity empty, but Time is empty also.

415. THE PROBLEM OF THE BIRTH SUPPLY

We blame the popular mind overmuch

416. THE SECOND MAIN GENERALIZATION OF SOCIALISM

His business undertakings would be under limitations his grandfather never knew—even harmless adulterations that merely intensify profit, forbidden him!

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418. THE NATURE OF SEXUAL INVERSION

There is no frequent relationship between homosexuality and insanity, and such homosexuality as is found in asylums is mostly of a spurious character.

419. CENTRAL CHILE:—STRUCTURE OF THE CORDILLERA

The district between the Cordillera and the Pacific, on a rude average, is from about eighty to one hundred miles in width.

420. THE CLASSIFICATORY ASSUMPTION

A mind nourished on anatomical study is of course permeated with the suggestion of the vagueness and instability of biological species.

421. THE WAR AIMS OF THE WESTERN ALLIES

In some fashion it is now necessary to achieve sufficient human unity to establish a world peace and save the future of mankind.

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423. THE MOTION OF A FALLING BODY

Kinetics is that branch of mechanics which treats of the action of forces in the production of motion.

424. DARWIN AND HIS THEORIES FROM A RELIGIOUS POINT OF VIEW

“Darwin’s writings may be searched in vain for an irreverent or unbelieving word.”—The Church Review.

425. Alternatives to Buying a Microcomputer

A programmable calculator may be an appropriate tool that is much less costly then a microcomputer.

426. THE REVOLUTION AND FAMINE IN RUSSIA

In 1921 came a drought and a great famine among the peasant cultivators in the war-devastated south-east provinces. Millions of people starved.

427. HANDS OFF THE PEOPLE’S FOOD

At the end unless the more prosperous people pull themselves together it will not be like that.

428. INSECT GEOMETRY

The Chalicodoma of the Walls, when building on a pebble, first raises a turret of faultless geometrical proportions.

429. Ideals of masculine and feminine beauty

Women have no external generative organ like the phallus to play a large part in life as a sacred symbol.

430. The sense of rhythm

All muscular action being stimulated by rhythm, in its simple form or in its more developed form as music, rhythm is a stimulant to work.

431. SCROPHULARIACEAE, GESNERIACEAE, LABIATAE, ETC.

When the crossed seedlings were on an average half an inch high, the self-fertilised ones were only a quarter of an inch high.

432. The American Business Man

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433. Computers on the Farm: Purpose of This Bulletin

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435. THE CAPRICORN

An eighteenth-century philosopher, Condillac, describes an imaginary statue, organised like a man, but with none of a man’s senses.

436. The Sacrifice for Scientific Research

Dr. Alexis Carrel has been associated with Dr. Flexner and his work, and his wonderful skill has been the result of his experiments and experiences.

437. THE MOTHER DECIDES THE SEX OF THE EGG

The remnants of the cocoon are also thrown away, but not always, for the delicate silken wrapper sometimes adheres closely to the masonry.

438. THE SPLENDOUR OF GREECE

The century and a half that followed the defeat of Persia was one of very great splendour for the Greek civilization.

439. War in the Twentieth Century

The great change that is working itself out in warfare is the same change that is working itself out in the substance of the social fabric.

440. THE MASON-BEES

The polygon came to a full stop, the diagonals suffered.

441. THE HABITS OF INSECTS IN RELATION TO THE FERTILISATION OF FLOWERS

Humble and hive-bees are good botanists, for they know that varieties may differ widely in the colour of their flowers and yet belong to the same species.

442. What a Computer Can Do for You - Farm Management Analysis

A good place to start is by analyzing data already stored in the computer or available in the files.

443. OBJECTIONS TO THE THEORY OF DESCENT WITH MODIFICATION CONSIDERED

It may be urged that, when several closely-allied species inhabit the same territory, we surely ought to find at the present time many transitional forms.

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