Report of the Annual Meeting of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, Volume 16South African Association for the Advancement of Science., 1919 - Science |
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Page 5 - In short, he must become impressed with the salutary truth, that no one can be perfectly free till all are free ; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral ; no one can be perfectly happy till, all are happy.
Page xliii - A fire-mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell, A jelly-fish and a saurian. And caves where the cave-men dwell: Then a sense of law and beauty. And a face turned from the clod, Some call it Evolution, And others call it God.
Page ii - ... to give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific enquiry, to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate science in different parts of the British Empire with one another, and with foreign philosophers, to obtain a more general attention to the objects of science, and the removal of any disadvantages of a public kind, which impede its progress.
Page v - All sums received for life subscriptions and for entrance fees shall be invested in the names of three Trustees appointed by the Council, and the interest only arising from such investment shall be applied to the uses of the Association.
Page ix - Nominations for (he recipient of the award may be made by any Member of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, and shall be submitted to the Medal Committee not later than six months after the close of the Annual Session.
Page xlvi - If possible, the powers of Europe should be made envious against one another in order to give occasion for a coup when the opportunity arises. If a ruler is obliged to sacrifice his own person for the welfare of his subjects, he is all the more obliged to sacrifice treaty engagements the continuance of which would be harmful to his country. Is it better that a nation should perish or that a sovereign should break his treaty...
Page vii - Meeting. It has therefore become necessary, in order to give an opportunity to the Committees of doing justice to the several communications, that each Author should prepare an Abstract of his Memoir, of a length suitable for insertion in the published Transactions of the Association, and...
Page 163 - Friends, wait for God : when He shall give the signal and release you from this service, then go to Him ; but for the present endure to dwell in this place where He has put you...
Page 244 - ... the change which we see as a nascent variation is often, perhaps always, one of loss. Modern research lends not the smallest encouragement or sanction to the view that gradual evolution occurs by the transformation of masses of individuals, though that fancy has fixed itself on popular imagination. The isolated events to which variation is due are evidently changes in the germinal tissues, probably in the manner in which they divide. It is likely that the occurrence of these variations is wholly...
Page v - Whenever the balance in the hands of the banker shall exceed the sum requisite for the probable or current expenses of the Association, the Council shall invest the excess in the names of the Trustees.