Author: Thomas Spencer (Perpetual Curate of Hinton Charter house.)
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Category : Tracts
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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The Tracts of the Rev. T. Spencer on Church Reform, National Education, Free Trade, Poor Laws, the Suffrage, and Other Social and Political Topics
Author: Thomas Spencer (Perpetual Curate of Hinton Charter house.)
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Category : Tracts
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Category : Tracts
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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The Tracts of the Rev. T. Spencer on Church Reform, National Education, Free Trade, Poor Laws, the Suffrage, and Other Social and Political Topics
Author: Thomas Spencer
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Category : Church renewal
Languages : en
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Category : Church renewal
Languages : en
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The Tracts of the Rev. Thomas Spencer, M. A., on Church Reform, National Education, Free Trade, Poor Laws, the Suffrage, and Other Social and Political Topics
Author: Thomas Spencer
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 3
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 3
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Bibliotheca Somersetensis: County books, Bath excepted. L-Z. General index
Author: Emanuel Green
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Category : Bath (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Category : Bath (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Accessions List
Author: University of London. Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Bibliotheca Somersetensis, a catalogue of books, pamphlets [&c.] connected with Somerset
Author: Emanuel Green
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Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Languages : en
Pages : 536
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The Church in the Social Order
Author: Cyril Kennard Gloyn
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Category : Church
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Category : Church
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Classified Catalogue of Selected Accessions
Author: University of London. Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 792
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Languages : en
Pages : 792
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Spencer's Tracts
Author: Thomas Spencer
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Category : Church
Languages : en
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Category : Church
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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.