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...tone the quicker of these vibrations are always an integral number of times as fast as the slowest, (which is also generally the strongest). In others the quicker rates are in general fractional multiples of the slowest. To the latter class belong instruments like bells and drums giving less perfect notes; the former class including all musical instruments properly so called. The cause of this aesthetic distinction Helmboltz found in the fact that in notes with fractional overtones there is always interference between the various pitches constituting the total mass of sound, while in notes of the integral class this...
Some people cannot believe that they are not perfect if they are not constantly informed of their shortcomings. I remember a girl whose charms were most conspicuous for their absence who once remarked, "How pretty I am!" "What makes you think so?" inquired a hearer. "Oh," replied she, "no one ever told me I was ugly...
...event in harmony with the Divine Law, and that all that is recorded of it in the Bible is precisely true and essential to a right understanding of the redemption, which not only changed the current of human affairs but verified the Scriptures and introduced to men the most perfect form of religion when received in the spirit of rational faith...
...specimens are made by two artists of Dresden, Germany, named Blaschka, father and son, who are the only persons in the world who can do this kind of work. The models are made entirely of blown glass, and the modelling and coloring are so exquisitely perfect that Nature must almost wonder whether they are not indeed of her own handiwork. Of each species represented, there is shown not only the natural appearance and characteristics of the flower, of the leaves, stem. etc, but also such details as are important for the proper understanding of its fundamental structure and its place...
...Appleton Chapel, W. E. Huntington, D. D., of Boston University, preached an able sermon on Christian Life. His text was taken from Ephesians, 4th chapter, 13th verse. "Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ...