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... human mind to the existence of this universal presence. And even then the science of electricity remained a mere little group of curious facts for ne... ..., and but little valued, and few people even then could have realised that Science was still but the flimsiest of trial sketches and discovery scarcel... ...ches and discovery scarcely beginning. No one seems to have been afraid of science and its possibilities. Yet now where there had been but a score or ... ...e the whole life of man from top to bottom. One realises how crude was the science of that time when one considers the case of the composition of air.... ...f the huge economic revolution that im- pended. What chiefly impressed the journalists of 1933 was the production of gold from bismuth and the realisa... ... as rush wildly through the air. The last dread of flying vanished. As the journalists of the time phrased it, this was the epoch of the Leap into the... ...er and free- dom, under a sky ablaze with promise, in the very presence of science standing like some bountiful goddess over all the squat darknesses ... ...n of any criticism of the public judicature and the place was crowded with journalists who had ventured to call attention to the dementia of Chief Jus... ...cs, a 88 The World Set Free number of ministers and ambassadors, powerful journalists, and such-like prominent and influential men, took part in it. ...

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...Y C onsidering our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been bran- dished and borne about, with more or less effect... ...of all Tissues, the only real Tissue, should have been quite overlooked by Science,—the vestural Tissue, namely, of woollen or other cloth; which Man’... ...wberries, and be swallowed up at last in remote peat-bogs. Of that unwise science, which, as our Humorist expresses it, “By geometric scale Doth take... ...ever it listed. Perhaps it is proof of the stunted condition in which pure Science, especially pure moral Science, languishes among us English; and ho... ...litated.” That actual Lectures should be held, and Public Classes for the “Science of Things in General,” they doubtless considered premature; on whic... ...steem him, with a very mixed feeling. Farther down we meet with this: “The Journalists are now the true Kings and Clergy: henceforth Historians, unles... ...it has ceased to flourish, or indeed to exist, among Thinkers, and sunk to Journalists and the popular mass,— who sees not that, as hereby it no longe... ... able to procure may fitly stand here. “It is true, certain of the English Journalists, men gen- erally without sense for the Religious Principle, or ...

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...t nothing is startling or obtrusive. Even those who break the laws of this science, 23 Balzac either through ignorance or carried away by some impuls... ...wrote articles for encyclopaedias, dictionaries of biogra- phy and natural science, doing just enough to enable him to live while he followed his own ... ...cyclopedia of angelic spir- its, each of whom bore the stamp of the art or science which he followed:— David Sechard to Lucien. “My Dear Lucien,—Enclo... ... witticism, though it should bring tears to a friend’s eyes. I come across journalists in theatre lobbies; it makes me shudder to see them. Jour- nali... ...had exhausted his stock of patience. Why should he not do nobly that which journalists did ignobly and without principle? His friends in- sulted him w... ...sed in his best and crossed the bridges, thinking as he went that authors, journalists, and men of letters, his future comrades, in short, would show ... ...re. The work had attained to such an unheard- of European popularity, that journalists evidently were tired of it.— “The Solitary makes his first appe... ...e best chance of success lies in an empty head. The austerity of your con- science, clear as yet, will relax when you see that a man holds your future... ...arth at the back of the shops, strange freaks of vegetable life unknown to science grew amid the products of various no less flourishing industries. Y...

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...d; all the more if it has the sanction, as it will have, of the Academy of Sciences. My good Monsieur Vauquelin will perhaps help me once more. I shal... ... edge outside the business of perfumery. Mixing wholly with people to whom science and letters were of no importance, and whose information did not go... ...ation on the French lan- guage, on dramatic art, politics, literature, and science, will explain the bearings of the bourgeois intellect. A poet pass-... ...adherents and rally to the Bourbons the various trades and men of arts and sciences, included Birotteau in the coming promotion. This honor, which sui... ...hat clever juggler had laid bare to him the secrets of legal and political science. Du Tillet possessed one of those minds which understand at half a ... ...les have upon the public mind. In these early days of their innocence many journalists were like cattle; they were unaware of their in- born power; th... ...ys. Birotteau found himself among a numerous company of deputies, writers, journalists, stock- brokers, merchants of the upper grades, agents, enginee... ...epartment on highways; and the discussion involved millions! On the other, journalists, pandering to the banker’s self-love, were talking about the se...

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...ofessor, is his idol; he thinks him capable of attaining to the Academy of Sciences. Thuillier, between the audacious nullity of Minard, and the solid... ... constitution of which deserves careful examination on the part of medical science and philosophical physiology. There rises, at times, within such me... ...necessary to here report) considered himself justified in believing in the science of ana- grams. None of this anagrams had ever failed. The clerks in... ...eath,” said Felix to Madame Thuillier. “I’ll be a member of the Academy of Sciences; I’ll make some great discovery, and win her hand by force of fame... ... the difficulties?” “Mademoiselle, the difficulties lie within my own con- science. Assuredly, I could not serve you in this matter with- out first co... ...er.” “Ah! excuse me, papa Thuillier; there’s only one way of seeing to the journalists; but as you grumbled about the fif- teen hundred francs for the... ...dinner to those journal- ists?” “Yes; but not at your own house; for these journalists, you see, if women are present, get stupid; they have to behave... ...at I give.” “But that costs money, breakfasts like that,” said Thuillier; “journalists are gourmands.” “Bah! twenty francs a head, without wine. Say y... ...included. It is scarcely necessary to say that none of the self-respecting journalists of the better papers had taken any notice of the absurd invitat...

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...nse of the former. When I think of the progress of physical and mechanical science, of medicine and sanitation during the last century, when I measure... ... are steep square hills (geologically, volumes of Orr’s Cyclopaedia of the Sciences) and the cracks and spaces of the floor and the bare brown surroun... ...y shabby tweed clothes and with his hands in his trouser pockets. He was a science teacher, taking a number of classes at the Bromstead Institute in K... ...aking a number of classes at the Bromstead Institute in Kent under the old Science and Art Department, and “visiting” various schools; and our resourc... ...re numbered. Thereupon my father had roused himself and had qualified as a science teacher under the Science and Art Department, which in these days h... ..., here a couple of young Jews ascendant from Whitechapel, here a circle of journalists and writers, here a group of Irish politicians, here two East I...

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...ould have been notched, if not broken. The character of immutability which science gives to zoological species is found in Breton human nature. Even n... ...norant of modern litera- ture, and the advance and present progress of the sciences. His education had been limited to geography and the circum- spect... ...he wanted to retain her youth and beauty, to which at that time she clung. Science warned her of the sentence pronounced by Nature upon all her creati... ...o the great question of races? to hitherto unobserved physical influences? Science may some day find the reason of this peculiarity, which ceases in t... ...ed this writer for the last seven years, as she had so many other authors, journalists, artists, and men of the world. She knew his nerveless nature, ... ...n their bodies. Camille Maupin knew the passion within her as those men of science knew their own anatomy. “I have brought him here to judge him, and ...

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...e Duchesse de Grandlieu, had selected certain of the ce- lebrities in art, science, literature, and politics, and received them. Society can lose noth... ...at epoch, Emile Blondet, celebrated behind closed doors, highly praised by journalists, but unknown beyond the bar- riers. Blondet himself was well aw... ...ne, a second-class comedy actress, where, for ten years, the said friends, journalists, certain authors, and writers in general dis- ported themselves... ...more in love than ordinary men in all their lives. Accustomed to listen to journalists, who guess at most things, putting two and two together, to wri... ...ale actors, spite of rivals, naggings of the stage manager, struggles with journalists; all of which require another twelve hours to the day. But even... ...mpadour was to Louis XV. All actresses envied Florine’s position, and some journalists envied that of Raoul. Those to whom the inclination of the huma...

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...o say to him: “You have raised the construction of hats to the height of a science.” “Have you at last discovered a hat to suit me?” asked Leon de Lor... ...listened; he grew pale with pleasure. “Rise, my wife! Monsieur is a man of science.” Madame Vital rose at her husband’s gesture. Gazonal bowed to her.... ...inds, if that animal, calling itself the proprietor, should go to a man of science and say: ‘I want an individual of the bimanous species, able to liv... ...live in darkness but see and know everything,’ most as- suredly the man of science could never have invented the porter to oblige the proprietor; Pari... ...nsieur Humbolt (I did the best I could with the few hairs America left him—science has this in common with sav- ages, that she scalps her men clean), ... ...d splendidly served, for ten per- sons every day. Artists, men of letters, journalists, and the habitues of the house supped there when they pleased. ...

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...ve there for a generation—was Babbitt more splendidly innocent than in the science of sanitation. He did not know a malaria-bearing mosquito from a ba... ...ch the energy and foresight of American commerce have con- tributed to the science of education. The first displayed the portrait of a young man with ... ...-lice that think they know more than Almighty God, and prefer a lot of Hun science and smutty German criticism to the straight and simple Word of God.... ...e. They admired and loved one another now. They went pro- foundly into the science of business, and indicated that the purpose of manufacturing a plow... ...r friends and the topics of the day. Then he goes happily to bed, his con- science clear, having contributed his mite to the prosper- ity of the city ... ...stlers over there, is that they’re willing to take a lot off the snobs and journalists and politicians, while the modern American business man knows h... ...to a fault. but one thing he does demand of all teachers and lecturers and journalists: if we’re going to pay them our good money, they’ve got to help...

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... are as spiritually intelligent as men,—an argument in favor of the occult sciences. The old man-servant of Colonel Giguet, Madame Marion’s older brot... ...ries in the French Academy in Rome. They have introduced me to a number of journalists and men of letters, all of them ami- able and distinguished men... ...foolish pretension: that of being initiated by long study into a cer- tain science represented as arduous, which they call the sci- ence of public aff... ...e sci- ence of public affairs and which they (like physicians with medical science) alone have the right to practise. They are not willing that an und... ...obably it occurred to him that the poor young lady, having more ardor than science, was not going the right way to work, and the thought of improving ... ... the tail of the serpent is its venom,”—a remark of antiquity which modern science does not admit. Monsieur de l’Estorade was not mistaken; Sallenauve... ...ve and the insolent pretensions of the veriest sparrow of the opera, these journalists were amazed and touched by the humility, the simplicity of this...

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... darkness of a new-born national hatred fos- tered by the Moscow school of journalists against the Poles after the ill-omened rising of 1863. This is ... ...only think of myself but of others; weigh the claims of affection and con- science against my own sincerity of purpose. “Think well what it all means ... ....” I would have been, without doubt, saddened; for in this world where the journalists read the signs of the sky, and the wind of heaven itself, blowi... ...eir cells, to the cloistered monks of Middle Ages, to lonely sages, men of science, reformers; the revelations of the world’s superficial judgment, sh... ...timacy and the strain of a creative effort in which mind and will and con- science are engaged to the full, hour after hour, day after day, away from ...

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...he darkness of a new-born national hatred fostered by the Moscow school of journalists against the Poles after the ill-omened rising of 1863. This is ... ....” I would have been, without doubt, saddened; for in this world where the journalists read the signs of the sky, and the wind of heaven itself, blowi... ...eir cells, to the cloistered monks of middle ages, to lonely sages, men of science, reformers; the revelations of the world’s superficial judgment, sh...

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...o the wharf. For Condy had joined a certain San Francisco club of artists, journalists, musicians, and professional men that is one of the institution... ...he had actually been at the place. But when she changed the subject to the science of fortification, Blix could no longer restrain herself. “But it is...

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...t of the simi- larity of her delight in both, deluded her uncorrupted con- science to believe that she was now spiritually as free: as in that fair se... ...it and proses; because he must say something, and he really knows nothing. Journalists have an excessive overestimate of their influ- ence. They canno... ...s thirsty hearers. Something of astronomy he knew; but in relation to that science, he sank his voice, touchingly to Diana, who felt drawn to kinship ...

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...As a matter of fact, he was an idle boulevardier, in touch with some smart journalists, made free of a few newspaper offices, and welcomed in the plea... ...andering; he had written noth- ing, collected nothing, brought nothing for science out of the twilight of the forests, which seemed to cling to his ba...

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... little or nothing but an inge- nious piler-up of careful strokes—a man of science taking his human documents and classing them after an orderly fashi... ...ymen have been more fortunate in that respect. If in some of his types—his journalists, his mar- ried women, and others—he seems to have sacrificed to... ...es. As we read the extraordinary writ- ings of the mystics who studied the sciences in their relation to infinity, such as Swedenborg, Saint-Martin, a... ...offroi Saint-Hilaire, Cuvier’s victorious opponent on this point of higher science, whose triumph was hailed by Goethe in the last article he wrote. I... ...simple among animals. Animals have little prop- erty, and neither arts nor sciences; while man, by a law that has yet to be sought, has a tendency to ... ...ciples. Machiavelli, Hobbes, Bossuet, Leibnitz, Kant, Montesquieu, are the science which statesmen apply. “A writer ought to have settled opinions on ...

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...- erties are at full liberty to act and develop. But the subject demands a science to itself perhaps!” And he would shrug his shoulders as much as to ... ...s, knowing nothing, as may be supposed, of the au- guries of phrenology, a science still in its cradle. The distinc- tion of this prophetic brow lay p... ...ed into that obscure life, as into that of many another man who is lost to science. Indeed, this narra- tive, so far as the expression and appreciatio... ...ce of the opposition to the ministry in a rep- resentative government. But journalists and opposition speak- ers are probably less prompt to take adva... ...ection raised as to the first principles of our organization. “Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which w... ...ep, which seem to prove that man has a double life? May there not be a new science lying beneath them?” he added, striking his brow with his hand. “If...

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...ed like a melon, out- lined a head of vast dimensions, showing that Gall’s science has not yet produced its chapter of exceptions. The gray and rather... ...e had spent an extra sum of ten thousand francs in the company of artists, journalists, and their mistresses. A confidential and rather disquieting le... ... puzzled the Benedictines of the Almanach of Gotha, in spite of the atomic science with which they arrange those zigzags of German alliances. For a lo... ...es, in what way can the harm be warded off.” The Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences at Metz, to which Minoret belonged, must possess this disser- tati... ...rsons may wish for a sketch of this figure, remark- able for the fact that science and literature had filled the heart and passed through the strong h... ...egnancies as Ursula Minoret did, in spite of the care and watchfulness and science of her husband. The poor man often blamed himself for their mutual ... ...inheriting. Now, Ursula’s father is dead.” Goupil’s argument produced what journalists who report the sittings of legislative assemblies are wont to c...

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...what the clerks of a business- house are to their employer; they learned a science which would one day advance them to prosperity. Thus, all points of... ...ration of justice, the household of the king, and all that concerned arts, sciences, and belles lettres. All patron- age ought to flow directly from t... ...he mediocrities who form the kernel of the political world. Knowing in the science of human nature, he assumed the character of a lis- tener, and none... ...only a man of talent. He went everywhere, collected opinions, sounded con- sciences, and caught all the tones they gave out. He gathered knowledge lik... ...tween eight at night and three in the morning. At the opera he talked with journalists, for he stood high in their favor; a perpetual exchange of litt... ...ion. Consequently, he was much liked in the world of actors and actresses, journalists and artists. For one thing, they had the same vices and the sam... ...ve strength to bear the res angusta domi of arts and the beginnings of all science by inspiring us with faith. Illusion is illimitable faith. Now the ... ..., dressed well, and wore moustachios, all of them as impudent as parvenus. Journalists were apt to persecute the tribe, who were cous- ins, nephews, b... ...glio with the pretty wives of the under- clerks, and lived in the world of journalists and actresses, became devotedly attentive all the evening to Ce...