The New International Encyclopædia, Volume 21

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Frank Moore Colby, Talcott Williams
Dodd, Mead, 1922 - Education
 

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Page 236 - They put on record at the same time, however, that their object was the "collective ownership and control of the means of production, distribution, and exchange.
Page 110 - Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, Is it not so, if peace and truth shall be in my days? Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
Page 323 - Absolute space, in its own nature, without relation to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces; which our senses determine by its position to bodies...
Page 150 - It protects the underlying parts from injury, as in the palm of the hand and the sole of the foot...
Page 323 - But because the parts of space cannot be seen, or distinguished from one another by our senses, therefore in their stead we use sensible measures of them. For from the positions and distances of things from any body considered as immovable, we define all places; and then with respect to such places, we estimate all motions, considering bodies as transferred from some of those places into others.
Page 198 - He nevertheless succeeded in passing several ameliorative measures which later culminated in the Land Purchase Act of 1904. Succeeding William Henry Smith as first lord of the treasury and leader of the House of Commons in...
Page 377 - Pia Desideria, oder herzliches Verlangen nach gottgefälliger Besserung der wahren evangelischen Kirche (1673).
Page 265 - The following persons shall be entitled to the benefits of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and may be admitted thereto upon the order of a member of the board of managers, namely...
Page 93 - In addition to their use in visual signaling, these flags serve to mark the assembly point of the company when disorganized by combat, and to mark the location of the company in bivouac and elsewhere, when such use is desirable.
Page 376 - It regards the world as a succession of events —as a .process in time, a gradual transition from the simple to the complex, from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous, from the indefinite to the definite, and from the definite to the more definite, a change from the general to the particular.

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