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Author: DEATH.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Death of Life; or, the Story of my experience on “the line”: its partial successes and its many failures, with some suggestions as to their cause. Being another appeal on behalf of railway labourers. By one who has known them for twenty years. [With plates.]
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Author: DEATH.The Publishers' Circular
Author: The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
Author: Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature, and Booksellers' Record
Author: General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: Democracy and Education
Author: John DeweyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
. 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.
Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad
Author: Levi CoffinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fugitive slaves
Languages : en
Pages : 796
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