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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: 1882. ATOMS, MOLECULES, AND ETHER WAVES.1 MAN is prone to idealisation. He cannot accept as final the phenomena of the sensible world, but looks behind that world into another which rules the sensible one. From this tendency of the human mind systems ofmythology and scientific theories have equally sprung. By the former the experiences of volition, passion, power, and design, manifested among ourselves, were transplanted, with the necessary modifications, into an unseen universe, from which the sway and potency of these magnified human, qualities were exerted. ' In the roar of thunder and in the violence of the storm was felt the presence of a shouter and furious strikers, and out of the rain was created an Indra or giver of rain.' It is substantially the same with science, the principal force of which is expended in endeavouring to rend the veil which separates the sensible world from an ultra-sensible one. In both cases our materials, drawn from the world of the senses, are modified by the imagination to suit intellectual needs. The 'first beginnings' of Lucretius were not objects of sense, but they were suggested and illustrated by objects of sense. The idea of atoms proved an early want on the part of minds in pursuit of the knowledge of Nature. It has 1 Written at Alp Lusgen for the first number of Longman'tATOMS, MOLECULES, AND ETHER WAVES. 79 never been relinquished, and in our own day it is growing steadily in power and precision. The union of bodies in fixed and multiple proportions constitutes the basis of modern atomic theory. The same compound retains, for ever, the same elements, in an unalterable ratio. We cannot produce pure water containing one part, by weight, of hydrogen and nine of oxygen; nor can we produce it when the ratio is one to ten; but ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217731751 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217731759 |
| Weight | 0.93 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.64 In |
| List Price | $23.37 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 284 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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