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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
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I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope…
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The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by…
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The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.
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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius…
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The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance,…
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It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he…
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To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed,…
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None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth,…
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Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see…
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One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an…
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Others of them employ outward marks ... They style themselves Gnostics. They also possess images, some of them painted and others formed…
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At least this is the way I see it. I am a physicist. I also consider myself a Christian. As I try…
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We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy…
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Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but…
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