Nature, Volume 92

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Sir Norman Lockyer
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Page 250 - FLY, envious Time, till thou run out thy race ; Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours, Whose speed is but the heavy plummet's pace ; And glut thyself with what thy womb devours, Which is no more than what is false and vain, And merely mortal dross ; So little is our loss, So little is thy gain.
Page 332 - Surgeons, has had the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws conferred upon him by the University of Toronto.
Page 184 - THE BOOK OF THE BALL: AN ACCOUNT OF WHAT IT DOES AND WHY. Illustrated. Cr.
Page 47 - I am one of those who think that the methods of Science are not so limited in their scope as has been thought : that they can be applied much more widely, and that the Psychic region can be studied and brought under law too. Allow us anyhow to make the attempt. Give us a fair field. Let those who prefer the materialistic hypothesis by all means develop their thesis as far as they can ; but let us try what we can do in the Psychical region, and see which wins.
Page 47 - ... to my mind ,- goes to prove that discarnate intelligence, under certain conditions, may interact with us on the material side, thus indirectly coming within our scientific ken; and that gradually we may hope to attain some understanding of the nature of a larger, perhaps etherial, existence, and of the conditions regulating intercourse across the chasm. A body of responsible investigators has even now landed on the treacherous but promising shores of a new continent.
Page 271 - to inquire into the prevalence of venereal diseases in the United Kingdom, their effects upon the health of the community, and the means by which these effects can be alleviated or prevented, it being understood that no return to the policy or provisions of the Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864, 1866, or 1869 is to be regarded as falling within the scope of the inquiry.
Page 370 - ... himself, as he is not naturally a carnivorous animal. So the horns of the stag are sharp to offend his adversary, but are branched for the purpose of parrying or receiving the thrusts of horns similar to his own, and have, therefore, been formed for the purpose of combating other stags for the exclusive possession of the females; who are observed, like the ladies in the time of chivalry, to attend the car of the victor.
Page 207 - is stated to be "to promote accurate anthropological observation on the part of travellers including- all local observers) and to enable those who are not anthropologists themselves to supply information which is wanted for the scientific study of anthropology at home.
Page 320 - To see the world in a Grain of Sand, And heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.
Page 36 - But it is owing to the first approximation that the cause of these anomalies was found, in the existence of a transition layer; and all the essentials of Fresnel's theory have remained. We cannot help reflecting that all these relations would never have been noted if there had been doubt in the first place as to the complexity of the objects they connect. Long ago it was said : If Tycho had had instruments ten times as precise, we would never have had a Kepler, or a Newton, or astronomy. It is a...

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