But all these characters have an immediate reference to the sentiments of others. Again, the increasing desire to provide information for children and to interest the large class of adults who are intellectually young but who still prefer truth to fictitious narrative, has produced countless books in which the writer…

This was promptly done, when the saintly document was unharmed. Much the same is true of the laughter which gladdens the measuring eye when it lights on the unmeasured, the excessive, the disproportionate. Another system, for this reason, not long after the days of Aristotle, was invented by Apollonius, which…

The impulse which they give to the will is mechanical, and yet this impulse, blind as it is, constantly tends to, and coalesces with the pursuit of some rational end. Now such a happening is extremely unlikely, but the chance that it should occur can be calculated mathematically and expressed…

Objection was at once made by various members. If one has plenty of money he may waste a good deal without serious effects; but waste of time is different. Accordingly, an occasional voice was raised in denunciation of the use of torture. They still gather for food the _ptukquim_, walnut,…

We take the tablets of memory, reverse them, and stamp the image of self on that, which as yet possesses nothing but the name. Again: Here is a man who does not read books. has long provided us with a framework on which to build our national thoughts and our…