Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, Volume 11

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Royal Society of New Zealand., 1879
Includes proceedings of member institutes of the Society and of the Society's Science Congress through v. 84, 1956/57.
 

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Página 76 - THERE is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done...
Página 76 - I do not say that the art is greatest which imitates best, because perhaps there is some art whose end is to create, and not to imitate. But I say that the art is greatest, which conveys to the mind of the spectator, by any means whatsoever, the greatest number of the greatest ideas...
Página 15 - The distinction, then, between Capital and Not-capital, does not lie in the kind of commodities, but in the mind of the capitalist — in his will to employ them for one purpose rather than another; and all property, however ill adapted in itself for the use of labourers, is a part of capital, so soon as it, or the value to be received from it, is set apart for productive reinvestment.
Página 17 - While, on the one hand, industry is limited by capital, so on the other, every increase of capital gives, or is capable of giving, additional employment to industry ; and this without assignable limit.
Página 19 - What supports and employs productive labour, is the capital expended in setting it to work, and not the demand of purchasers for the produce of the labour when completed.
Página 55 - that the upper part of the river has been troubled with accumulations, which, as will be shown, must necessarily have been conveyed upwards by the flood-stream." In the analyses made, " the mud in each case was black and fetid in a state of active putrefactive decomposition, and, when examined under the microscope, it was found to consist of broken-up sewage matter." Of the water, when near Woolwich, Greenwich and London Bridge, " all the samples were black and offensive, and they were found, on...
Página 38 - ... near London ; the substitution of a constant, instead of an intermittent flow in the sewers ; the abolition of stagnant and tide-locked sewers, with their consequent accumulations of deposit ; and the provision of deep and improved outfalls, for the extension of sewerage into districts previously...
Página 196 - ... epidendri is described by the same writer as flat, of a dirty white color, sometimes brownish, with the exuviae central and yellow). The last segment of the female presents four groups of spinnerets. The cephalo-laterals consist of fifteen ; the caudo-laterals of nine or ten. '' The abdomen ends in several lobes of which the four middle ones are the largest. The rest of the lobes are sharply pointed. Between the lobes are scaly serrate hairs.
Página 103 - I heard, yet so difficult is it to discover the exact interval, that I will not vouch for the mathematical exactness: neither will I pledge myself not to have written a chromatic for an enharmonic interval, or vice versa. I must also, in justice to myself, add, that the singer did not always repeat the musical phrase with precisely the same modulation, though, without a very severe test, this would not have been discernible, nor then to many ears; the general effect being to an European ear very...
Página 106 - ... like a sling to assist them in throwing a stone ; which is the more surprising, as the invention of slings, and bows and arrows, is much more obvious than of the works which these people construct, and both these weapons are found among much ruder nations, and in almost every other part of the world. Besides the long...

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