Author: Thomas Henry Burrowes
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 998
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The Pennsylvania School Journal
Author: Thomas Henry Burrowes
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 998
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Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 998
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Pennsylvania School Journal
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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The Pennsylvania School Journal
Author: Pennsylvania. Dept. of Public Instruction
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Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Pamphlets and Reprints
Author: William Warner Bishop
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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The School Journal
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Languages : en
Pages : 950
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Languages : en
Pages : 950
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The Pennsylvania School Journal
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 734
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Includes "Official program of the ... meeting of the Pennsylvania State Educational Association" (sometimes separately paged).
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 734
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Includes "Official program of the ... meeting of the Pennsylvania State Educational Association" (sometimes separately paged).
The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2298
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2298
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Democracy and Education
Author: John Dewey
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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. Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwardly unchanged. Otherwise, it is shattered into smaller bits. Never does the stone attempt to react in such a way that it may maintain itself against the blow, much less so as to render the blow a contributing factor to its own continued action. While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it into means of its own further existence. If it cannot do so, it does not just split into smaller pieces (at least in the higher forms of life), but loses its identity as a living thing. As long as it endures, it struggles to use surrounding energies in its own behalf. It uses light, air, moisture, and the material of soil. To say that it uses them is to say that it turns them into means of its own conservation. As long as it is growing, the energy it expends in thus turning the environment to account is more than compensated for by the return it gets: it grows. Understanding the word "control" in this sense, it may be said that a living being is one that subjugates and controls for its own continued activity the energies that would otherwise use it up. Life is a self-renewing process through action upon the environment.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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. Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwardly unchanged. Otherwise, it is shattered into smaller bits. Never does the stone attempt to react in such a way that it may maintain itself against the blow, much less so as to render the blow a contributing factor to its own continued action. While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it into means of its own further existence. If it cannot do so, it does not just split into smaller pieces (at least in the higher forms of life), but loses its identity as a living thing. As long as it endures, it struggles to use surrounding energies in its own behalf. It uses light, air, moisture, and the material of soil. To say that it uses them is to say that it turns them into means of its own conservation. As long as it is growing, the energy it expends in thus turning the environment to account is more than compensated for by the return it gets: it grows. Understanding the word "control" in this sense, it may be said that a living being is one that subjugates and controls for its own continued activity the energies that would otherwise use it up. Life is a self-renewing process through action upon the environment.
Bulletin
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 776
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 776
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Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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