Word: phenomena
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Geological Conference. Papers: The Physical Geography of Warren County, Iowa, Mr. J. L. Tilton; Review of Bayley's "The Eruptive and Sedimentary Rocks on Pigeon Point, Minnesota, and their Contact Phenomena," Mr. C. F. Marbut; Review of Penck's "Morphologie der Erdoberflache," Professor Davis. Geological Laboratory...
Although the interest which attached to the eclipse of the moon last night was a popular rather than a scientific one, yet arrangements for observations were made at the Observatory in the hope that some data of importance might be gathered, possibly the appearance of a satellite or other phenomena. As it was, the sky was so clouded that only a few glimpses of the eclipse in its early stages were gained and from these nothing of any importance was learned...
...where are we to look for the phenomena by which we are to explain man's ideas about himself? Certainly not in language alone, as Max Muller would hold, but in rites, usages, and customs. But here lies the difficulty, that these depend upon the modes of thought, analogies and impressions which we can no longer share...
...Phenomena which deserve consideration are those of breath, shadow, reflection, sleep, swoon, sickness, wounds and death, Two facts, interesting in their analogies and contrasts, bear upon the subject, namely, the states of waking and sleeping, and those of life and death. In both sleep and death, something seems to go out from the person, the difference being that in death the something that goes out does not return. Furthermore, when the sleeper dreams of the dead, the explanations of dreams and death confirm each other. As to the nature of that which seems to go out, there are several groups...
...client to defend or a criminal to attack, and he is perfectly right in saying that he is never illogical, if by that he means that his individual syllogisms are never false in form. Moreover, a man who sets out to discover a theory that shall reconcile all phenomena is very apt unconsciously to construct one and to make the facts conform to it whether they will...