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Category : Germans
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Includes proceedings, addresses and annual reports.
The Pennsylvania-German Society: 1916
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Category : Germans
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Includes proceedings, addresses and annual reports.
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Category : Germans
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Includes proceedings, addresses and annual reports.
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.
The Classical Weekly
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Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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The Classical World
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Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Classical Weekly
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Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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The United States Catalog; Books in Print January 1, 1912
Author: H.W. Wilson Company
Publisher: Minneapolis ; New York : H.W. Wilson
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2174
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Publisher: Minneapolis ; New York : H.W. Wilson
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2174
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Pamphlets and Reprints
Author: Eugene Stock McCartney
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Languages : en
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The Faith of a Quaker (Classic Reprint)
Author: John William Graham
Publisher: CUP Archive
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Excerpt from The Faith of a Quaker There arise also the insistent questions which beset all mystics, and which in Quakerism demanded a corporate, instead of an individual, answer. Was the light infallible? Was the claim to it an assumption of spiritual exaltation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: CUP Archive
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Excerpt from The Faith of a Quaker There arise also the insistent questions which beset all mystics, and which in Quakerism demanded a corporate, instead of an individual, answer. Was the light infallible? Was the claim to it an assumption of spiritual exaltation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The United States Catalog
Author: Mary Burnham
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1612
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1612
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Antiquarian Bookman
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1424
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1424
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