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...necessary for every one who intends to become a mechanical or civil engineer to have a good fundamental knowledge of electrical engineering. These three professions are closely connected and work side by side. It has often happened that an engineer in one of these has been led into serious difficulties by his ignorance of the principles which govern the others...
...breadth scarce a span, yet infinite as space and time? and in what, I pray, are those we gravely call historical characters, of which each new historian strains his neck to get a new and different view, in any sense more real than the personages of fiction? Do not serious and earnest men discuss Hamlet as they would Cromwell or Lincoln? Does Caesar, does Alaric, hold existence by any other or stronger tenure than the Christian of Bunyan or the Don Quixote of Cervantes or the Antigone of Sophocles? Is not the history which...
...prove interesting to individuals doubtless, but the majority will turn more readily to the fiction of the number. The same might be said of "Thomas Hardy's Fatalism as Art," by W. T. Denison. Both articles are of the kind of which each Monthly contains one or more specimens,- serious subjects well treated, but without doubt intended to appeal to the individual or specialist rather than to the general class of readers...
...dress and pleasure, but he was ever generous, kind to the poor and pure, and in these traits can be seen the ruling characteristics of his after life. He had some ambition for military fame, but on becoming ill after one campaign in which he took part, a more serious conception of life took possession of him. Soon after, when he was on the way to join in another war, a voice from heaven seemed to call upon him to renounce his present mode of life and devote himself to the service of God. He returned to his native town...
...extended, the economic conditions are too diverse. (b) Business and incomes are too unstable. (c) The tax is difficult to collect. (d) The tax offers every inducement to fraud. (e) The federal tax would conflict with state and municipal taxes. (f) The bill as it stands has serious incongruities...