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... upon leaving the body may vanish away like smoke or air. Socrates in answer ap peals first of all to the old Orphic tradition that the souls of the ... ...ate his own mental experience. When he was young he had puzzled himself with physics: he had enquired into the growth and decay of ani mals, and the ... ... to that later stage of the Platonic writings at which the doctrine of ideas ap pears to be forgotten. It belongs rather to the intermediate period o... ...s imperishable and im mortal, and the philosopher who is confident in death ap pears to you to have but a vain and foolish confidence, if he 83 Pla... ...l might be blinded altogether if I looked at things with my eyes or tried to ap prehend them by the help of the senses. And I thought that I had bet... ...the advance of one another, but also there are other natures which repel the ap proach of opposites. Very true, he said. Suppose, he said, that we en...

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... yourself,” to Cashel Byron, who replied somewhat impatiently, and with an ap- prehensive glance at Miss Carew, “All right! all right! Never you fear,... ... in my own mind. I wonder whether the hundreds of writers of text-books on physics, who talk so glibly of vibrations, realize them any better than I d... ...hink.” “Yes,” said Lydia, seriously. “Though I have no real knowl- edge of physics, I can appreciate the truth of that. Perhaps all the science that i... ...ttom physical science is only pre- tentious nescience. I have read much of physics, and have of- ten been tempted to learn something of them—to make t... ... difficult to grasp the facts that underlie it! Our popu- lar lecturers on physics present us with chains of deductions so highly polished that it is ... ...h the two ladies there, “The Colonial Office has had an idea. The king, it ap- pears, is something of an athlete, and is curious to witness what Londo... ...ve traced his history back to his boyhood, when he was a cabin-boy. Having ap- parently failed to recommend himself to his employers in that capacity,... ... and looking perplexedly about him as he wiped his dabbled brow. Bashville ap- proached him with the firmness of a martyr, halted on the third stair, ... ...est course would be to marry another phoenix; but as she—poor girl!—cannot ap- preciate even her own phoenixity, much less that of another, she must p...

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...what then?” 19 Tolstoy “That’s the most interesting part of the story. It ap- pears that it’s a happy couple, a government clerk and his lady. The go... ...,” thought he, “is that just now, at the very moment when my great work is ap- proaching completion” (he was thinking of the project he was bringing f... ... to shudder and blush, thinking myself utterly lost, when I was plucked in physics and did not get my remove; and how I thought myself utterly ru- ine... ...a Mihalovna. With her indeed he not infrequently fell into discussion upon physics, the theory of agriculture, and especially philosophy; philosophy w... ...es for tea for someone. Soon after the arrival of the Shtcherbatskys there ap- peared in the morning crowd at the springs two persons who attracted un...

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...latov’s corps is join- ing up with the main army and that Kutuzov has been ap- pointed commander in chief. He is a very shrewd and garru- lous fellow.... ...ed to its native fields.” Napoleon rode on, dreaming of the Moscow that so ap- pealed to his imagination, and “the bird restored to its native fields”... ...hat Dron had finally given up the keys and joined the peasants and had not ap- peared when Alpatych sent for him; and that in the morning when the pri... ...ould answer his ques- tions as to who had won. At dawn next day Pierre was ap- proaching Mozhaysk. Every house in Mozhaysk had soldiers quartered in i... ...cles in perplexity at Prince Andrew. “Well, and what do think of Kutuzov’s ap- pointment?” he asked. “I was very glad of his appointment, that’s all I... ... up for him by a new light. He understood that latent heat (as they say in physics) of patrio- tism which was present in all these men he had seen, an...

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...ur midst, forces for which the word “revolutionary” is only too faithfully ap- propriate. Nothing is being done to allay these forces; every- thing co... ...part, he regarded it as an intellectual procedure in no way differing from physics. His classifica- tion of the sciences shows pretty clearly that he ... ...adation in the importance of the instance as one passes from mechanics and physics and chemistry through the biological sciences to economics and soci... ...nother. Be it noted that, so far as the practical results of chemistry and physics go, it scarcely matters which assumption we adopt. For purposes of ... ...is ceases to be true directly we emerge from the re- gion of chemistry and physics. In the biological sciences of the eighteenth century, commonsense ... ...etached from their traditions of origin. The social difference from Europe ap- pears everywhere, and nowhere more strikingly than in the railway carri... ...uence of individual- ist competition and the old American tradition as the ap- pearance of slums and a class of millionaires. These facts go to the ve... ...s at its finest.... And all that I have written of him is equally true and ap- plies word for word, with only such changes of gender as are needed, to... ...alth and disease is probably going on now, similar to the clarification of physics and chemistry that went on in the later part of the eighteenth and ...

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...One might then as well set up the thesis that the interest in mechan- ics, physics, chemistry, logic, philosophy, and sociol- ogy, which springs up du... ... can imagine this course of lectures to possess lies in the breadth of the ap- perceiving mass. I may succeed in discussing religious experiences in a... ... religion is equally hos- tile to heavy grumbling and complaint. The world ap- pears tragic enough in some religions, but the trag- edy is realized as... ...h to fail when I applied it, though in my ignorance I have often failed to ap- ply it, but through my failures I have learned the sim- plicity and tru... ..., that the powers of the universe will directly respond to your individual ap- peals and needs, are propositions which your whole bodily and mental ex... ...hen heavy sleepiness is on his limbs defer to shake it off, and though not ap- proving it, encourage it; even so I was sure it was 171 William James ...

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...y 8 Heartbreak House seemed more remote and fantastic than a dread of the ap- pearance of a colony of cobras and rattlesnakes in Kensington Gardens. ... ...accompanied, as it happened, by discoveries of extraor- dinary interest in physics, chemistry, and that lifeless method of evolution which its investi... ...e. My play, The Dark Lady of The Sonnets, was one of the incidents of that ap- peal. After some years of effort the result was a single hand- some sub... ... as much money as it cost to rent and maintain them. In such theatres work ap- pealing to a relatively small class of cultivated persons, and 32 Hear... ...o an imaginary distance]. His heart is breaking: that is all. [The captain ap- pears at the pantry door, listening]. It is a curious sensation: the so...

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...st wisdom is not founded on reason alone, not on those worldly sciences of physics, history, chemistry, and the like, into which intellectual knowledg... ...g room as “a man of great merit” (un homme de beaucoup de merite), a newly ap- pointed maid of honor and her mother, and several other less noteworthy... ...and the whole regiment. On approaching it, Rostov felt as he had done when ap- proaching his home in Moscow. When he saw the first hussar with the unb...

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... Sergey Ivanovitch his observations of the volunteers, from which it would ap- pear that they were capital fellows. At a big station at a town the vol... ...s just as Tanya had shown him. Katavasov was very fond of discussing meta- physics, having derived his notions from natural science writers who had ne...

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... influence. But in Prin- cess Drubetskaya’s case he felt, after her second ap- peal, something like qualms of conscience. She had re- minded him of wh... ...essed her intention and stooped to be ready to embrace the countess at the ap- propriate moment. “This is for Boris from me, for his outfit.” Anna Mik... ... understood the full im- portance of the rite now being performed and even ap- proved of it. He now approached the sick man with the noiseless step of... ...ng on the Znaim road seven miles away from the French. At Grunth also some ap- prehension and alarm could be felt, but the nearer Prince Andrew came t... ... strange foreign enemies. Since early morning—despite an injunction not to ap- proach the picket line—the officers had been unable to keep sight-seers... ...st wisdom is not founded on reason alone, not on those worldly sciences of physics, history, chem- istry, and the like, into which intellectual knowle... ...p for him by a new light. He under- stood that latent heat (as they say in physics) of patrio- tism which was present in all these men he had seen, an... ... chemical affinity, or of the vital force, forms the content of astronomy, physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, and so on, just in the same way does t...

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...o tell his mother down be- low all that he had felt when he saw the coffin ap- proaching: how he could not leave his work, and yet did not like to go ... ...diness included all praise. He himself, gazing at the wintry garden, is in ap- pearance a steady man. His face was not as square as his son’s, and, in... ...acquit them—almost. For one hard fact remains. They did neglect a personal ap- peal. The woman who had died did say to them, “Do this,” and they answe... ...what he would do for them and what he would not do. Also the rent. If they ap- proved, Margaret was to come up at once—the words were underlined, as i... ...lcox, aren’t you ever amused at the solemnity with which we middle classes ap- proach the subject of houses?” They proceeded to the drawing-room. Chel... ...ted with reality and the absolute. Perhaps Margaret grew too old for meta- physics, perhaps Henry was weaning her from them, but she felt that there w...

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...ing that wild beast with the dappled skin. But not so that the sight which ap- peared to me of a lion did not give me fear. He seemed to be coming aga... ...er course from the Divine Intellect and from its art. And if thou note thy Physics 6 well thou wilt find after not many pages that your art follows h... ...le, Ethics, vii. 1. 5 Outside the walls of the city of Dis. 6 Aristotle, Physics, ii. 2. 46 The Divine Comedy – Hell CANT CANT CANT CANT CANTO XII.... ...hat it may not float. The good Master said to me, “In order that it be not ap- parent that thou art here, crouch down behind a splinter, that may affo...

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...the skill, dexterity, and judgment, with which it is anywhere directed, or ap- plied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour. The eff... ... for example, which covers the day-labourer, as coarse and rough as it may ap- pear, is the produce of the joint labour of a great multitude of workme... ...other of silk, both which extend through the whole generality of Rouen. It ap- pears from his account, which is copied from the registers of the publi... ... acquisitions present to the different people among whom it is divided, is ap- plied to those particular branches only which afford the greatest profi... ...those of the far greater number. How extravagant soever those earnings may ap- pear, if they were more than sufficient to compensate all the dis- agre... ...ation. The ancient Greek philosophy was divided into three great branches; physics, or natural philosophy; ethics, or moral phi- losophy; and logic. T... ...ny of this kind gave occasion to; though, in its origin, posterior both to physics and to ethics, it was commonly taught, not indeed in all, but in th... ...ure either of the human mind or of the Deity, made a part of the system of physics. Those beings, in whatever their essence might be supposed to consi... ...cts were considered as making two distinct sciences. What are called meta- physics, or pneumatics, were set in opposition to physics, and were cultiva...

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...prove is an abil ity to do cheerfully without what can not be had, a just ap preciation of the comparative value of different objects of desire, and... ...ne person and another. When a minister makes what is meant to be an honest ap pointment, that is, when he does not actually job it for his personal c... ...as they can be. Parlia ment does not nominate any minister, but the crown ap points the head of the administration in conformity to the general wish... ...portance and dig nity of the trust, it were made a rule that every person ap pointed a member of the Legislative Commission, unless removed from off... ..., think ancient literature useless, all erudition useless, logic and meta physics useless, poetry and the fine arts idle and frivolous, political eco... ...the support of an army and navy, should, in the estimates for the year, be ap portioned among the different provinces according to some general estim...

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... change: these are the words, and in depth of pathos they have rarely been ap- proached:— ‘Oft he to her his charge of quick return Repeated; she to h... ... had direct personal cognisance of various cases in which bribery had been ap- plied with success, I was not without considerable hope that perhaps Ha... ...anks for his ser- vices, under the belief that he could have accepted this ap- pointment only with a view to keep out other and more un- welcome prete... ... might have been sup- posed. Not many miles in the rear was a body of well ap- pointed cavalry, with a strong detachment of artillery, who always atte... ... wheezing, pant- ing, crying, ‘Bellows to mend!’ periodically as the Earth ap- proaches her aphelion. But suddenly at this point a demur arises upon t... ...utionary effect into the heart of a section so ancient in our mathematical physics? But the reader is to consider, that the ruins made by Lord Rosse, ...

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...ming; and they say she wrote a little volume of Meditations in Prospect of Ap- proaching Motherhood, for the guidance of others in a simi- lar situati... ...department of human enterprise was comprehensible, considering the natural ap- prehensiveness of the half-wild girl before such a meeting. As it often... ...t of magnets. She is a princess in other things besides her superiority to Physics. There will be wild scenes at Baden. ‘My Diary of to-day is all bes... ...ned to Sir Meeson’s entreaties that he should start at once for Baden, and ap- peared to pity the poor gentleman, condemned by his office to hang abou... ...d the picture you might label ‘Bellyful,’ it was remarked. Kit Ines had an ap- pearance of springy readiness to lead off again. So they faced on the o... ...iend has the habit of soliloquizing in company. I forgot to tell you of an ap- pointment of mine at a place called Canleys, about twenty miles or more...

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...on, no Alps to climb, no stake to play for, and he would beat the air, and ap- pear stupid. Transport him to large countries, dense popu- lation, comp... ... detach themselves; that with the exercise of self-trust, new powers shall ap- pear; that a man is the word made flesh, born to shed healing to the na... ...onsters who look backwards. And yet the compensations of calamity are made ap- parent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever... ... is sensual, and therefore superficial. The earth and the heavenly bodies, physics, and chemistry, we sen- sually treat, as if they were self-existent... ...poet is the Namer or Lan- guage-maker, naming things sometimes after their ap- pearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to every one its ow... ...hich no man willingly hears any one praise but himself. On the platform of physics we cannot resist the contracting in- fluences of so-called science.... ...ong enough to follow it and report of the return of the curve. But it also ap- pears that our actions are seconded and disposed to greater conclusions...

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...a. The whole subject has long been dealt with from the standpoint of meta- physics. Man has slowly banished chance from the material world and left be... ...ill most lives. The element of joy is largely lacking. To many it makes no ap- peal, although music and art and beauty do. In no country has society s... ...r regaining health and ample physical treatment, but he would be helped by ap- peals in the way of praise and encouragement, even to the extent of dow... ...ich causes the malad- justment. Crime results from defective heredity when ap- plied to the environment. It comes from the inability of the machine to...

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...presented, accord- ing to the ideas of that time, as the enemy of God, the ap- proach of whose vengeance is felt throughout the drama, growing in mena... ...works, when they deal with love, turn from honest attempts at sci- ence in physics to romantic nonsense, erotic ecstasy, or the stern asceticism of sa... ...energy or spe- cific talent for administration, can at least recognize and ap- preciate capacity and benevolence in others, and so govern through capa... ...ome, an expression which drops into one of decorous grief as the young man ap- proaches him with sorrow in his face as well as in his black clothes. R...

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...or history, the state and power are merely phe- nomena, just as for modern physics fire is not an element but a phenomenon. From this fundamental diff... ... history of Eu- rope, though to the chroniclers of the Crusades that event ap- peared as merely due to the will of certain people. In regard to the mi... ... chemical affinity, or of the vital force, forms the content of astronomy, physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, and so on, just in the same way does t...

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...at and threw it back and down upon him, — a trick which men may know who study physics at the fount. And men who have shared their bed with death know... ...g or persuad ing, he had incontinently yielded. Had there been a softness and ap peal to mercy in the eyes, a tremble to the voice, a taking advanta... ... in the unequal contest, while her husband, slower in wit, ventured naught but ap plause. And he was very proud of her; his every look and action rev... ...th would measure it.” And the circle of old men champed their gums, and nodded ap provingly, and coughed. “I told him that I would never be his wife,... ...th the overseer. But at eleven o’clock there was excitement in the room. In an ap parently occult way the excitement instantly permeated everywhere. ... ...a few minutes before. The windows of the office building became vociferous with ap plause. A fresh shower of office chairs and filing cabinets descended...

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...much” (as she uttered the words Count Alexey Kirillovitch she glanced with ap- pealing timidity at Levin, and he unconsciously responded with a respec... ...glish 83 Tolstoy protegee, had not the slightest need to know anything of physics. This irritated Anna. She saw in this a contemptuous reference to h...

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...some actual arrangement and asked her if she would like an alteration. All ap peals to her taste she met gratefully, but saw nothing to alter. His ef... ...own curls, as well as his youthfulness, identified him at once with Celia’s ap parition. “Dorothea, let me introduce to you my cousin, Mr. Ladislaw. W... ...mount of difference towards that spreading change which would one day tell ap preciably upon the averages, and in the mean time have the pleasure of ... ...for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could ap preciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all ... ...other is like old George the Third,” said the Vicar, “she objects to meta physics.” “I object to what is wrong, Camden. I say, keep hold of a few pla... ..., he would have taken the more convenient side, and given his vote for the ap pointment of Tyke without any hesitation—if he had not cared personally...

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...Proudie. ‘And that it will give us no trouble.’ ‘“The labour we delight in physics pain”’ said the gallant bishop, bowing low, putting his hand upon h... ...ime had gone by, and the people of Barchester did not care a straw for his ap- peal. From these causes the lecture was over a full twenty minutes earl... ...Lufton about Mr Sowerby and Mr Sowerby’s money affairs; but he did make an ap- pointment for a tete-a-tete on the next morning. ‘You must come down an... ...ecretary’s room he was quite astonished to see the change in his brother’s ap- pearance which the change in his official rank had pro- duced. Jack Rob... ...owerby saw at a glance that he had come thither with all the aptitudes and ap- purtenances of his business about him. He walked into the room with a s... ...’ said Mrs Harold Smith— seeing that Lady Lufton with her young friend was ap- proaching—’unless indeed, you can make a saint of Lady Hartletop. ’ And...

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... into a sea of subtle distinctions, reservations, quotations, allusions, and ap peals to authorities, and it was with difficulty that he understood wh... ... ing face and eyes, strode into the garden like a conquering hero. But as he ap proached his mother in law, he responded in a mournful and crestfalle... ...ore. “I know your and Sergey Ivanovitch’s aristocratic views. I know that he ap plies all the power of his intellect to justify existing evils.” “No;... ...ed to shudder and blush, thinking myself utterly lost, when I was plucked in physics and did not get my remove; and how I thought myself utterly ruine... ...fea Mihalovna. With her indeed he not infrequently fell into discussion upon physics, the theory of agriculture, and especially philosophy; philosophy... ...g back her prominent eye till the white looked bloodshot, she started at the ap proaching figures from the opposite side, shaking her muzzle, and shif... ...verything were beginning to be double in her soul, just as objects sometimes ap pear double to over tired eyes. She hardly knew at times what it was ... ... Anna’s English prot´ eg´ ee, had not the slightest need to know anything of physics. This irritated Anna. She saw in this a contemptuous reference to... ...derived his notions from natural science writers who had never studied meta physics, and in Moscow Levin had had many arguments with him of late. And...

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...nd out the reason for the difference between his father and himself. Logic and physics were no part of his mental make up. Like most creatures of the ... ...okee responded by vigorous wagging of the stump of his tail. But the clamor of ap proval did not distract him. There was no sympathetic relation betw...

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... twice as many lectures, because the students had a very poor knowledge of physics and were utterly ignorant of meteorology. They are readily carried ... ...y came into sight from behind an elder-tree at the turn of the avenue. His ap- pearance was so unexpected that my uncle positively started and stepped...

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...ded, malice, incontinence, and brutishness.” v. 104. Her laws.] Aristotle’s Physics. “Art imitates nature.” —See the Coltivazione of Alamanni, l. i. ... ...ies had lately been seized by Philip IV. The spirit is made to imitate the ap proaching defeat of the French army by the Flemings, in the battle of ...