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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE FINDING OF MAGGIE HUTCHINSON Sir William Macpherson earned his K.C.I.E. not so much by his thirty years of Ind as by the comparative leisure which enabled him to write that famous essay on Brain Excitations. He has told me since that the genesis of the theory which likens man to an induction coil came to him as the oars swung merrily back to the Ganges, he striving the while to restore the Armenian's vitality. Karl, he whispered, stirred by the impulse of the moment, can you see your father? The boy looked unerringly towards the north, where Darjeeling lay, eight hundred miles distant. No, he said after a slight pause, it is dark. Dark? repeated the scientist. Yes, like a fog at night, you know. But there is no fog, and it was quite as dark a few minutes since, when you saw Mr. Constantine in the sea. Karl seemed to focus his thoughts once more. Then he nestled wearily close to his friend. Something seems to press me back, and I am tired, he said. Every woman who reads this would, in all probability, like to box Macpherson's ears. And, indeed, he had the good grace to be ashamed of himself, though, if doctors did not push individual experiments a trifle too far occasionally, the mass of humanity would be the worse for their caution. Nevertheless, though he contented himself with asking the third officer to shield the boy from the keen surface air of the sea, his mind was busy. Karl's wonderful comprehension of root words was known to him, and he felt that the expressions dark, fog, something seems to press me back, even the unwonted excuse of being tired, were not chosen at random. Then he remembered how a friend had taken him once, when home on furlough, to witness certain telephonic tests conducted by...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217780803 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217780806 |
| Weight | 0.54 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.37 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 160 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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