Memoir and Scientific Correspondence of the Late Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bart. ...University Press, 1907 |
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Memoir and Scientific Correspondence of the Late Sir George Gabriel Stokes ... Sir George Gabriel Stokes Affichage du livre entier - 1907 |
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Page 47 - ... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below"; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Page 147 - Here end my trials for the present. The results are negative. They do not shake my strong feeling of the existence of a relation between gravity and electricity, though they give no proof that such a relation exists.
Page 166 - I believe that, both collectively and individually, we agree in regarding every real bond fide inquiry into the truths of nature as in itself essentially legitimate ; and we also know that in the history of science it has happened more than once that hypotheses or theories, which have afterwards been found true or untrue, being entertained by men of powerful minds, have stimulated them to explore new paths of research, from which, to whatever issue they may ultimately have conducted, the explorer...
Page 166 - Some amongst us may perhaps incline to accept the theory indicated by the title of this work, while others may perhaps incline to refuse, or at least to remit it to a future time, when increased knowledge shall afford stronger grounds for its ultimate acceptance or rejection. Speaking generally and collectively, we have expressly omitted it from the grounds of our award.
Page 347 - The army of liberal thought is, at present, in very loose order ; and many a. spirited free-thinker makes use of his freedom mainly to vent nonsense. We should be the better for a vigorous and watchful enemy to hammer us into cohesion and discipline ; and I, for one, lament that the bench of Bishops cannot show a man of the calibre of Butler of the " Analogy," who, if he were alive, would make short work of much of the current d, priori
Page 72 - On the final causes of the sexuality of plants, with particular reference to Mr. Darwin's work on the Origin of Species.
Page 223 - Surgery. 2. It shall be the principal duty of the Professor to teach and illustrate the principles and practice of Surgery, to apply himself to the advancement of the Knowledge of these subjects, and to promote their study in the University.
Page 234 - ... degrees of temperature. I have found cracks in Lake Winnipeg 3 or 4 feet wide, formed by this cause during a single night, almost stopping our sledge journey. This gap soon freezes up. Then the weather gets milder, the ice expands, and with the new additional formation is too large for the lake, and is forced up into ridges. This process goes on at every ' cold snap,'* alternating with milder weather.
Page 77 - Now the soul partakes of life, since God wills it to live. Thus, then, it will not even partake [of life] when God does not will it to live. For to live is not its attribute, as it is God's ; but as a man does not live always, and the soul is not for ever conjoined with the body, since, whenever this harmony must be broken up, the soul leaves the body, and the man exists no longer ; even so, whenever the soul must cease to exist, the spirit of life is removed from it, and there is no more soul, but...
Page 126 - ... yet exhibits in certain aspects, and under certain incidences of the light, an extremely vivid and beautiful celestial blue colour, apparently resulting from the action of the strata which the light first penetrates on entering the liquid ; and which, if not strictly superficial, at least exert their peculiar power of analysing the incident rays, and dispersing those producing the observed tint, only through a very small depth within the medium. The thinnest film of the liquid seems quite as...