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...philosophy thus to give up its search for stability? The new "philosophy of change" does not think so. It solves the problem by eliminating it; stability is to be found in change itself. This means that we must reverse the current conception of what is stable and what is changing. We erroneously consider movement as more complicated than immobility. On the contrary every immobility is due to two simultaneous movements. The table appears motionless to one only because one moves with it. Movement, however, is indivisible. Movement, or change, then, is the sought for stability, and thus we reach...
This collection is the result of an unremitting search through book catalogues and book collections conducted for years with the ardor and resourcefulness of a sportsman on the track of his favorite game. It contains the full series of the first thirteen editions of "The Temple" printed from 1633 to 1709, all the later editions of any merit or significance, and every book in which any scrap of Herbert's writing in prose or verse appeared for the first time in print...
...narrow margin. The fight marked the beginning of the battle for the supremacy of the New Movement in New Hampshire. At first it was misrepresented and subject to ridicule, but after a great struggle the Progressives enacted their entire platform in 1908. They had no leader, however, and the search for a candidate resulted in the selection of Governor Bass...
Members of the two lower classes may enroll in the news competition, in which familiarity with some phase of College activity, though valuable, is of secondary importance to a good determination and a willingness to search for news. Perhaps one of the most useful and sure results of this competition is the insight into College affairs which it gives, and the broad acquaintance to which it inevitably leads. It appeals, of course, to men who can afford considerable time in outside work...
...tottering dangerously from the strain of waiting and longing, sets off to the South to hunt for the child through all the mills in the land. Henry, who owns one of these same mills, sends orders to push the profits as hard as possible to supply money for further search...