Elements of Biology: A Practical Text-book Correlating Botany, Zoology, and Human PhysiologyAmerican Book Company, 1907 - 445 páginas |
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... facts , have correlated these facts , and then have given to the world discoveries of world - wide importance . A careful boy or girl may , by his own painstaking work in science , find out some fact that is new , and in a small way ...
... facts , have correlated these facts , and then have given to the world discoveries of world - wide importance . A careful boy or girl may , by his own painstaking work in science , find out some fact that is new , and in a small way ...
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... facts , as we shall see later , have a far - reaching significance in the understanding of some of the most important problems of biology . Oxidation in a Match . The simple process of striking a sulphur match gives us another ...
... facts , as we shall see later , have a far - reaching significance in the understanding of some of the most important problems of biology . Oxidation in a Match . The simple process of striking a sulphur match gives us another ...
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... fact that , when anything is oxidized , heat is produced . This heat may be of the greatest use . Coal , when oxidized , gives off heat ; this heat boils the water in the tubes of a boiler ; steam is generated , wheels of an engine turn ...
... fact that , when anything is oxidized , heat is produced . This heat may be of the greatest use . Coal , when oxidized , gives off heat ; this heat boils the water in the tubes of a boiler ; steam is generated , wheels of an engine turn ...
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... fact that it puts out a flame and that it turns limewater milky . This compound is known to chemists as carbon dioxide.2 - Nitrogen . There is another gaseous substance that will not support combus- tion ; this is the element nitrogen ...
... fact that it puts out a flame and that it turns limewater milky . This compound is known to chemists as carbon dioxide.2 - Nitrogen . There is another gaseous substance that will not support combus- tion ; this is the element nitrogen ...
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... fact that the living ma- terial has taken on very different forms in dif- ferent parts of the plant.1 The root below the sur- face of the ground dif- fers considerably in form from the stem , which in turn differs in structure from the ...
... fact that the living ma- terial has taken on very different forms in dif- ferent parts of the plant.1 The root below the sur- face of the ground dif- fers considerably in form from the stem , which in turn differs in structure from the ...
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Página 397 - Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning, to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation, in whatever pursuit he may have singled out.
Página 397 - I won't count this time." Well ! he may not count it, and a kind Heaven may not count it ; but it is being counted none the less. Down among his nerve cells and fibers the molecules are counting it, registering and storing it up to be used against him when the next temptation comes.
Página 397 - Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. The drunken Rip Van Winkle, in Jefferson's play, excuses himself for every fresh dereliction by saying, 'I won't count this time!
Página 321 - He flavors his food with salt,' is to imply that he is rich, and children will suck a piece of rock-salt as if it were sugar. No stronger mark of respect or affection can be shown in Muscovy, than the sending of salt from the tables of the rich to their poorer friends.
Página 397 - The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way.
Página 403 - The more purely intellectual qualities of the mind rarely escape being involved in the general disturbance [caused by alcohol]. The power of application, of appreciating the bearing of facts, of drawing distinctions, of exercising the judgment aright, and even of comprehension, are all more or less impaired. The memory is among the first faculties to suffer. . . . The will is always lessened in force and activity. The ability to determine between two or more alternatives, to resolve to act when...
Página 61 - Jimson weed, to the exclusion of all other forms of plant life. That this is not the case is due to the fact that only those seeds which are advantageously placed can develop ; the others will, for various reasons (lack of moisture to start the young seed on its Grain ; spikes of ened flowers.
Página 321 - No stronger mark of respect or affection can be shown in Muscovy, than the sending of salt from the tables of the rich to their poorer friends. In the book of Leviticus it is expressly commanded as one of the ordinances of Moses, that every oblation of meat upon the altar shall be seasoned with salt, without lacking ; and hence it Is called the Salt of the Covenant of God. The Greeks and Romans also used salt in their sacrificial cakes ; and it is still used in the services of the Latin church—...
Página 397 - Well! he may not count it, and a kind Heaven may not count it; but it is being counted none the less. Down among his nerve cells and fibers the molecules are counting it, registering and storing it up to be used against him when the next temptation comes. Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out. Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so many separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts...
Página 103 - The sap carries water and plant-foods from the roots to the leaves and from the leaves to the growing parts of the tree. That is why it is so important to keep the bark from being injured, for if the bark is cut or bruised or bored into by insects, the tree loses sap and is weakened. 8.